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Telefónica, flexiWAN Drive Open Source SD-WAN Development

Open source SD-WAN vendor flexiWAN today announced a partnership with Telefónica to develop a proof-of-concept SD-WAN service designed to run on white-box consumer premises equipment (CPE). The partnership, which began in June, will continue through 2020 and involve testing flexiWAN’s performance for consumer branches that need throughputs from 50 Mb/s to 1 Gb/s of encrypted traffic.

flexiWAN’s open source SD-WAN platform entered public beta in late July promising to disrupt the market with an open architecture. CEO and co-founder of the Tel Aviv, Israel-based startup Amir Zmora imagines a future where the open standard has become the No. 1 deployed SD-WAN on the market, similar to what pfSense did for firewalls.

[Source: SDxCentral]

AWS hits back at open source software critics

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has rejected criticism that the company ‘strip mines’ open source software projects for their innovations. AWS wasn’t happy with how it was portrayed in a recent New York Times article about open source database makers which criticised the the cloud giant for integrating open source software pioneered by others into its offerings.

But rather than copying software and profiting from the others’ labor the world’s top cloud computing company is just giving customers what they want, according to Andi Gutmans, vice president of AWS analytics and ElastiCache.

[Source: ZDNet]

Google Bans Avast Extensions for Google Chrome Due to User Data Collection

Google has removed Avast and AVG extensions for Google Chrome from the Chrome Web Store following the user data concerns that made the headlines several times in the last couple of weeks. The issue was brought to light by Wladimir Palant, the developer of Adblock Plus, one of the leading ad-blocking extensions for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

According to his findings, Avast and AVG extensions published in add-on stores collected information about users’ browsing habits, including data that would allow the security company to reproduce your browsing session.

[Source: Softpedia]

Portshift’s Security Platform Isolates Vulnerable Containers

With an aim to enable more secure workload communications, Portshift has announced a new capability that delivers runtime policies for vulnerability remediation. Portshift said its risk mitigation engine connects Kubernetes network policies with discovered vulnerabilities in production workloads. This would help mitigate the risk potential of vulnerable containers till its replacement with new version that remove the vulnerable component.

Available as part of the company’s identity-based cloud native workload security and risk management platform, the technology ensures that Kubernetes environments are protected from development to runtime.

[Source: TFiR]

Lazarus Group targets Linux systems in new remote-access virus campaign

The Lazarus Group, the North Korean-linked hacking group believed to be behind in the spread of the WannaCry ransomware in 2017 and linked to a campaign targeting banks and financial institutions in 2018, is back again. Now it’s targeting Linux systems alongside Windows. The new Lazarus campaign, detailed today by Qihoo 360 Netlab researchers, uses a remote-access Trojan virus dubbed Dacls.

First detected in May, it’s a new type of software that allows for remote code execution and enables the Lazarus Group to access file locations on a server.
[Source: SiliconANGLE News]

Purism’s Librem Server Is Now Generally Available

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Purism has announced the general availability of Librem Server, its first enterprise offering to secure server environments for businesses. Librem Server has already been successfully in use by established business customers for the past year that serve important clients such as Boeing, GE, NASA and Toyota.

Librem Server comes bundled with Pureboot, Purism’s complete secured boot process with a neutralized and disabled Intel Management Engine, coreboot BIOS replacement and BIOS, kernel and boot tamper detection.

[Source: TFiR]

The 10 Hottest New Open-Source Technologies And Tools of 2019

The open source movement is a leading driver of technological innovation in the cloud era, delivering a seemingly endless chain of new projects that help organizations adopt cloud-native application architectures and methods. The magic of open source is that its methodology enables and encourages industry giants, solo developers and innovative startups to all cooperate in pursuit of a common technological vision to the benefit of a vast user base.

Through open projects, those entities find common ground, leading to them complementing each other’s work to build and promote code that solves real-world enterprise problems in a cost-effective and scalable manner. Click the link below to know about 10 open source projects that changed the game in 2019…

[Source: CRN]

Canonical Wants the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server Installer to Be Faster, Comfortable

Canonical has laid down their plans for the Ubuntu Server installer for the upcoming Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) operating system series. During the development cycle of the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS operating system, which should debut in late April 2020, Canonical wants to make the Ubuntu Server installer faster and more comfortable for its server users by dropping support for the Debian-installer based classic server installer and replacing it with their more modern, in-house built subiquity server installer.

[Source: Softpedia]

Wipro Recognized As 2019 SUSE Global System Integrator Partner Of The Year

Wipro Limited has won the ‘2019 SUSE Global System Integrator Partner of the Year’ award for its collaboration and excellence in adoption of SUSE open source technologies to drive digital transformation for customers. The IT firm won the award in two categories: Most Innovative Solution and Most Technical Certifications.

Wipro develops solutions leveraging SUSE Enterprise Storage, SUSE CaaS Platform and SUSE Cloud Application Platform for open and cost-effective software-defined infrastructure.

[Source: TFiR

Linux Foundation’s DENT To Create Network OS For Disaggregated Network Switches

With an aim to simplify enterprise edge networking software, Linux Foundation has launched a new open source project called DENT. The project will help in the creation of Network OS for Disaggregated Network Switches in campus and remote enterprise locations. Linux Foundation expects DENT to unify silicon vendors, ODMs, SIs, OEMs, and end users across all verticals and enable the transition to disaggregated networks.

The initial use case will focus on the retail industry with premier members including Amazon, Cumulus Networks, Delta Electronics Inc, Marvell, Mellanox, Wistron NeWeb (WNC).

[Source: TFiR]