Security update for fossil (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for fossil Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1050-1 Rating: moderate References: 1187988 Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3 An update that contains security fixes can now be installed. Description: This update for fossil fixes the following...

OPENSUSE-SU-2021:0787-1 Security update for cacti, cacti-spine

This update for cacti, cacti-spine fixes the following issues: cacti-spine was updated to 1.2.17: Avoid triggering DDos detection in firewalls on large systems Use mysql reconnect option properly Fix possible creashes in various operations Fix remote data collectors pushing too much data to main...

Emerging Edge Computing Use Cases

The first rule of edge compute thought leadership is: don't overuse the term edge. Over the course of my blog series on the topic, I have defined the edge, explained edge computing, and discussed the economics of edge computing. There have also been a few articles in which I've discussed how...

Optimizing for Performance, One Hire at a Time: Part 1

It's a lot of fun to imagine and design the best team. As managers, it's rare that we get to build a team from the ground up and all at once...

How the Edge Improves Microservices

Microservice architecture has transformed the way we develop and operate our applications. Microservices aren't a technology or a programming language. Instead, they create a structure for designing and building applications based on the idea that the individual functions of a website should...

Optimize Video Streaming Performance to Reduce Viewer Churn

Why Improve Viewer Experience? Why Now? As online video viewership continues its march to digital mediums and platforms, viewer expectation around the quality of experience is also maturing. Increased video streaming choices and the low cost of switching providers are leading viewers to churn if...

Metrics That Matter: Continuous Performance Optimization

To attract and retain customers, you must offer an exceptional digital experience. In an increasingly competitive business climate, organizations are fighting to maintain loyalty and keep users engaged online. The cost of switching is low, consumers are transient, and user expectations for how...

Metrics That Matter: Continuous Performance Optimization

To attract and retain customers, you must offer an exceptional digital experience. In an increasingly competitive business climate, organizations are fighting to maintain loyalty and keep users engaged online. The cost of switching is low, consumers are transient, and user expectations for how...

Cleaner One Pro Speeds Up Your Mac: Part 1

The Mac has always been pretty easy to use, but even the most ardent Mac supporters know there comes a time when their Mac is no longer new and they notice slowdowns in its performance, particularly after intensive use. They’d like a handy one-stop tool to help them optimize memory and CPU...

Updates to Snort setup guides

Our documentation on Snort 3 running on CentOS and the Snort Rules Writing guide to Snort 3. Thanks to community member Yaser for providing the updates. The Snort 3 guide now has expanded information on logging options — such as syslog and JSON. There is also a new performance optimization sectio...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2018-1153)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

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...

Akamai Outlook: Optimizing Edge Delivery Performance and Monitoring

Written by: Ritesh Kalyanshetty and Sandeep Singh Pervasiveness of CDNs within the expanding Media and Entertainment Industry Media and entertainment companies, including content owners and over-the-top OTT service providers are living in an era symbolized by a dramatic increase in content...

Gobuster v3.0 - Directory/File, DNS And VHost Busting Tool Written In Go

Gobuster is a tool used to brute-force: URIs directories and files in web sites. DNS subdomains with wildcard support. Virtual Host names on target web servers. Oh dear God.. WHY!? Because I wanted: 1. ... something that didn't have a fat Java GUI console FTW. 2. ... to build something that just...

Fast DNS: Zone Apex Mapping & DNSSEC

Introduction Along with its DDoS resilience and impressive global footprint, Fast DNS affords zone administrators additional technical flexibility and implementation options. One example is Zone Apex Mapping ZAM -- a feature that enables apex domains to be mapped directly to an Akamai edge IP. Th...

Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Augmented Operator Advisor Detection (Windows SMB Login)

SMB login-based detection of Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Augmented Operator Advisor. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only...

Discovering Design Principles

Carbon Black recently published a report on the challenges of securing Linux-based operating systems and how Carbon Black is redesigning the approach. For more information about how the CB Predictive Security Cloud, Carbon Black's consolidated endpoint security platform, helps enterprises cut cos...

openSUSE Security Update : gitolite (openSUSE-2018-1118)

This update for gitolite fixes the following issues : Gitolite was updated to 3.6.9 : - CVE-2018-16976: prevent racy access to repos in process of migration to gitolite boo1108272 - 'info' learns new '-p' option to show only physical repos as opposed to wild repos The update to 3.6.8 contains : -...

How Do I Make My Windows 10 Computer Run Faster? (Part 1)

We’ve all been there. You get your shiny home PC or laptop back from the store and unboxed and everything is perfect. It runs like a dream: starting up quickly, speeding you through internet searches and web browsing, and applications open in the blink of an eye. But then over the following month...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2018:2309) (Spectre)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Telco Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...