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Linux Training Staff | January 30, 2017
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This tutorial series offers a sneak preview of the Linux Security Fundamentals training course. In this article, we look at how hackers can perpetrate an attack from inside or outside your organization. Download the sample chapter now.
Linux Security Threats: Attack Sources and Types of Attacks
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In part 1 of this series, we discussed the seven different types of hackers who may compromise your Linux system. White hat and black hat hackers, script kiddies, hacktivists, nation states,...
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Amber Ankerholz | January 30, 2017 iotivity-constrained-openiot.png
We talk with Kishen Maloor, lead developer and maintainer of the IoTivity-Constrained project, about the project’s architecture, features, and uses.
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IoTivity-Constrained: A Flexible Framework for Tiny Devices
The future of IoT will be connected by tiny, resource-constrained edge devices, says Senior Software Engineer at the Intel Open Source Technology Center. And, the IoTivity-Constrained project is a small-footprint implementation of the Open Connectivity Foundation’s (OCF) standards that’s designed...
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Bloomberg Technology | January 30, 2017
AmEx Joins JPMorgan, IBM in Hyperledger Blockchain Effort
American Express Co. is elbowing its way into the crowded blockchain party.
The biggest credit-card issuer by purchases has signed on to the Hyperledger Project, a industry group of more than 100 membersdeveloping blockchain technology for corporate use. The digital ledger known for underpinning ...
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Carla Schroder | January 30, 2017 jason-adelman-mesoscon.png
For more than a year, the Watson Platform team has been running multiple services in production on a common environment based on Mesos. Jason Adelman explains how they set up networking, scheduling, auto-scaling, and use chaos testing to keep everything operating smoothly.
Lessons Learned Running IBM Watson on Mesos
All these newfangled container and microservices technologies inspire all manner of ingenious experiments, and running IBM's Watson on Apache Mesos has to be one of the most -- maybe it's not fair to say crazy -- but certainly ambitious. Jason Adelman of IBM tells us the story of this novel...
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InfoWorld | January 30, 2017
OpenSSL Issues New Patches as Heartbleed Still Lurks
The OpenSSL Project has addressed some moderate-severity security flaws, and administrators should be particularly diligent about applying the patches since there are still 200,000 systems vulnerable to the Heartbleed flaw.
OpenSSL updated the 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 branches and released versions 1.1.0d...
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Info Q | January 30, 2017
Improve Your Node.js App Throughput One Micro-optimization at a Time
In order to improve the performance of an application that involves IO, you should understand how your CPU cycles are spent and, more importantly, what is preventing higher degrees of parallelism in your application.
While focusing on improving the overall performance of the DataStax Node.js driver...
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Softpedia | January 30, 2017
Linus Torvalds Outs Linux Kernel 4.10 Release Candidate 6, the Biggest So Far
If last week's fifth RC was relatively normal and kept small, the Linux kernel 4.10 Release Candidate 6 snapshot appears to be much bigger because of a flood of patches that landed on Friday and this weekend. This makes today's RC release the biggest so far for the Linux 4.10 series.
As for the...
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Libby Clark | The Linux Foundation | January 27, 2017 top-security-tutorials.jpg
Check out these top tutorials from Linux.com to help you improve your Linux server security.
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Best Linux Server Security Tutorials on Linux.com
The first rule of Linux server security is to keep your server lean and mean. Only install the packages and run the services that you really need, writes Swapnil Bhartiya in his Linux.com tutorial on making your server more secure.
“Even the most hardened servers can be hijacked by exploiting any...
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Swapnil Bhartiya | January 27, 2017 best-lightweight-distros-2017.jpg
Swapnil Bhartiya chooses his seven favorite lightweight distros for 2017.
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Best Lightweight Linux Distros for 2017
Operating systems are like cars: you can get a power-hungry Humvee that guzzles gas, leaving you with a few miles to drive, or you can get a super-efficient smart car that barely sniffs gas and gives you hundreds of miles of range. You can also get a monster OS that devours all system resources (...
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Paul Brown | January 27, 2017 charlie-robbins-nodejs.png
Charlie Robbins describes GoDaddy's serverless front-end deployments using npm at Node.js Interactive.
Serverless Front-End Deployments at GoDaddy
At GoDaddy, Charlie Robbins is heading the Warehouse.ai project, a framework that enforces a coherent workflow for serverless front-end deployments. In his talk at Node.js Interactive, Robbins said that deployments are all about serving new functionalities to visitors. Most Node.js front ends have...
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