Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2020:2102)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:2102 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: Kernel: NetLabel: null pointer...

Veeam Backup & Replication support for HPE Cloud Volumes Backup

Veeam Backup & Replication v10 provides official support for HPE Cloud Volumes Backup. HPE Cloud Volumes Backup is a cloud-based backup service from HPE that emulates on-premises StoreOnce Catalyst Stores and can be used by Veeam Backup & Replication as a backup target that will automatically pro...

Akamai Enhances Enterprise Threat Protector to Add Secure Web Gateway Capabilities

Today, Akamai announced that it has added secure web gateway SWG capabilities to its Enterprise Threat Protector ETP service to help enterprises further accelerate their transformation to a Zero Trust security architecture. So what are the SWG enhancements and what benefits will these deliver for...

User Survey 2020 Report Shows Rapid Growth In Apache Pulsar Adoption

For the first time ever, the Apache Pulsar PMC team is publishing a user survey report. The 2020 Apache Pulsar User Survey Report reveals Pulsar's accelerating rate of global adoption, details how organizations are leveraging Pulsar to build real-time streaming applications, and highlights key...

Debian DSA-4644-1 : tor - security update

A denial of service vulnerability by triggering high CPU consumption was found in Tor, a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4644. The...

Performance Testing: Justifying Cost and Performance Improvements (Part 2)

As mentioned in the first blog in this series, Melanie, a performance engineer at VMware Carbon Black, built both baseline and investigative tests for the engineers that develop and maintain the company’s reputation services. Here’s a deeper look at these tests and how they helped the company...

Support Process for DVD Burning related issues

Network latency and bandwidth can affect user experience and USB device operation when using generic USB redirection for some types of USB devices. Operations that are highly data driven such as for archival devices can be problematic due to multiple factors that lay outside the realm of user...

Out Of Band, Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind

Satellite receivers aboard maritime vessels can be tricky things to manage, yet are crucial to efficient operations of modern drilling rigs and ships. Particularly on rigs, it’s not that unusual for a receiver dish to be knocked out of alignment during drilling operations. Lose satcoms and you’re...

Imperva Launches New Data Center in Argentina

Imperva’s New Expansion We are happy to announce that Imperva has launched our new Buenos Aires data center. We’re thrilled to bring our leadership in cybersecurity plus enhanced performance and decreased latency to Argentina and the surrounding countries in the region. Our new data center is now...

Explained: edge computing

Edge computing may seem like a foreign and future-facing term. Yet its applications are widespread and diverse, with the ability to transform the way we store, use, and share data and programs online. The implications of edge computing are far-reaching, trickling down from software development an...

Taking Reputation to Scale: An Iterative Journey with an Agile Approach (Part 2)

In Part 1 of this blog, we shared with you the challenges we had in balancing latency, scalability, and cost for our reputation services. In this blog, we’ll give you some insights into each major iteration along that journey, from the beginning to where we are now. 100 requests per second. Befor...

Taking Reputation to Scale: The Delicate Balance of Latency, Scale, and Cost (Part 1)

When it comes to serving reputation, even a millisecond of latency could create havoc, resulting in the unwanted spread of malware and causing costly consequences that no security company or customer wants. And that’s why we, as engineers here at Carbon Black, are constantly working towards...

Optimizing Video Streaming Performance with Origin-Assisted Prefetching

Online video streaming is everywhere today. It's available on the smallest hand-held devices to the largest of screens in our living rooms. Magically and for the most part, it works and provides a very captivating experience. However, if you step back to look at the overall architecture, media...

How to Scale Addressable Advertising with Low Latency for Live Streaming

Written by: David Springfall, Founder and CTO of Yospace Under David's technical and strategic leadership, Yospace pioneered server-side ad insertion and established itself as the global leader in OTT stream monetisation. The Yospace technology supports full one-to-one personalisation and provide...

Wikipedia, World of Warcraft Downed By Weekend DDoS Attacks

Attackers targeted an array of servers with a flurry of distributed denial of service DDoS attacks over the weekend, crippling online encyclopedia Wikipedia, as well as popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft Classic. DDoS attacks are bent on taking websites offline by overwhelming...

Fedora 29 : nfdump (2019-9013b5e75d)

2019-08-14 - Fix compile issues - Fix output buffer size for lzo1xdecompresssafe 2019-08-07 - Fix VerifyExtensionMap 179 2019-08-06 - Fix compile errors 2019-08-05 - Fix nfdump.1 man page. 175 - Fix off by 1 array. 173 - Fix use after free in ModifyCompressFile - Add bound checks in AddExporterSt...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-18552

An issue was discovered in net/rds/afrds.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11. There is an out of bounds write and read in the function rdsrecvtracklatency...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18552

An issue was discovered in net/rds/afrds.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11. There is an out of bounds write and read in the function rdsrecvtracklatency...

Launching the Melbourne Scrubbing Centre

We are excited to announce the launch of Akamai's newest scrubbing centre in Australia. While Akamai has been protecting ANZ customers from large and complex DDoS attacks for years, the new Melbourne scrubbing centre will allow us to provide higher resilience and reduce latency for in-region...