Could the artificial intelligence platform revolutionize the cybersecurity industry?
Today’s cybersecurity professionals face daunting tasks: protecting enterprise networks from threats as best they can, damage limitation when data breaches occur, cyberforensics and documenting the evolution and spread of digital attacks and malware across the world.
On Monday, MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) said that while many “analyst-driven solutions” rely on rules created by human experts and therefore may miss attacks which do not match established patterns, a new artificial intelligence platform changes the rules of the game.
Another Sunday, another chance for us Linux enthusiasts to take the latest RC (Release Candidate) build of the upcoming 4.6 kernel for a test drive on our computers.
Yes, that’s right, we’re talking about Linux kernel 4.6 Release Candidate 4 (RC4), which has just been made available for download a few minutes ago (see download options below), as announced by Mr. Linus Torvalds himself.
And from the looks of it, things are going pretty good in the development cycle of Linux kernel 4.6…
DRaaS offers business continuity by enabling data backup, recovery and retrieval. It is the process of replicating virtual servers to protect and back up data.
IT acronyms that can be pronounced as words and used in complete sentences are the most fun kind. SaaS or SAS (“Beyonce shows a lot of SaaS”) and PaaS (“That Tom Brady throws quite a PaaS”) are two examples.
Ready or not, the IT industry has added DRaaS (“Don’t do anything DRaaS-tic”) to the mix. This stands for disaster recovery as a service, and it’s becoming a big seller very quickly because DR is a pain to set up, test and maintain on premises. DR in the cloud is good a way for a business to be well covered and not have to think about it.
The upside to this sub-sector of IT is a healthy one; the estimated size of the global market is expected to balloon to $6 billion to $12 billion by 2020. MarketsandMarkets is projecting a $12 billion DRaaS market by 2020, and that’s a far cry from the $1.4 billion worth of DRaaS sold in 2015.
Suppose that your original answer-file been used for Controller/Network +(N)*Compute Node deployment has been updated as follows to separate Storage Node from Controller. Controller has IP 192.169.142.127, Compute has IP 192.169.142.137. Following lines in classic ML2&OVS&VXLAN deployment answer-file are supposed to be updated.
EXCLUDE_SERVERS=192.169.142.127,192.169.142.137
. . . . . . .
CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED=y
. . . . . . .
CONFIG_STORAGE_HOST=192.169.142.117
. . . . . . .
CONFIG_NEUTRON_OVS_TUNNEL_IF=eth1
CONFIG_NEUTRON_OVS_TUNNEL_SUBNETS=12.0.0.0/24
As far as updates above are correct new node 192.169.142.117 will be added to landscape, however endpoints for all storage services in keystone database wouldn’t be updated. So before stopping services on Controller keystone database is supposed to be hacked. Cinder may be tuned manipulating bindings cinder-types to required volume-groupes via cinder.conf on 192.169.142.117.
With the release of GNOME 3 came the promise of a small collection of apps that would go a long way toward making GNOME a desktop for all occasions. Apps for weather, calendar, music, photos, and maps not only promised to bring about a unified experience across the platform, they helped to offer a certain “mobilized” feel to the desktop. Considering that users across the globe are adopting mobile platforms at a rate that desktops cannot match, this was a wise move. Give the users a familiar collection apps, and they’ll feel right at home.
No app better defines that move than GNOME Maps. It’s a desktop app that does a great job of paralleling what you might find on a mobile platform. It offers an easy-to-use interface, favorites, route mapping, standard and satellite view maps, and much more. Sure, you can find all of these features (and more) in, say, Google Maps. However, you won’t find a desktop version of Google Maps for Linux. So, if you like your map apps ready at the click of an icon, GNOME 3 has what you’re looking for.
If you’ve never used GNOME Maps, you’re in for a treat. All you need is one of the latest iterations of GNOME (Maps was introduced in GNOME 3.16) and GNOME Maps will be installed by default.
Let’s get started.
The Interface
Figure 1: The Default GNOME Maps window.
To start up GNOME Maps, open up the Dash, search for Maps, and (when the Maps entry appears) click on the launcher. Maps will start up with a global view (Figure 1), ready to guide you.
The interface is quite simple. In the upper left corner, you have the location button, the map type selector, and the zoom in/out buttons. In the center top, you have the search bar. In the upper right corner, you have the favorites and the route buttons. The designers/developers have done a great job of making this app easy to navigate.
First Step
The first thing I recommend you do (to get the most out of GNOME Maps) is enable the location services. Understand, to some this could be seen as a security issue, so only enable this feature if you’re okay with your device knowing your location. However, it will make GNOME Maps easier to use.
Figure 2: Enabling location service for ease of use on GNOME Maps.
To enable the location service, click on the Location button in the top left corner. You will then be prompted to click on the Location Settings button, where you can then enable the service (Figure 2).
Once you’ve enabled the Location Service, close the settings window and return to GNOME Maps. Dismiss the location warning and you’re good to go. If you click the Location button and it responds with Unable to find location, give the service a moment to actually locate you. Try again until GNOME Maps can pinpoint your location. By default, it will open up your location by city. If you click on the Zoom In button (the + sign), you will see that the Location service does actually do a good job of finding you.
Using Maps
Let’s use GNOME Maps to locate a business. You can enter a business name in the search field and be presented with options. Say you want to find directions to the nearest Cinemark cinema. Type cinemark followed by your current city. All relative locations should appear.
Click on the desired entry, and GNOME Maps will then zoom into that location (Figure 3).
Figure 3: Your desired location at the ready.
There are now three actions you can take:
Add a new route (get directions to the location)
Open the location in another app
Add the location to favorites
If you click the Add new route button, GNOME Maps will automatically give you directions to the destination from your current location. If you click to open the location in another app, you will be presented with all relevant apps (in this case, only the GNOME Weather app). You can then open that app and receive relevant information relative to the destination (Figure 4).
If you click on the Favorites button, that destination will be added to your favorites.
With every route, you can select a different travel type:
Car
Bicycle
Walking
Figure 4: Getting weather information about your destination.
The directions will change (as well as estimated time), according to the type of travel. To change the type of travel, simply find your destination, click the Route icon, and then click either the walking, cycling, or driving icon.
Favorites
The Favorites feature should be a no-brainer for most. You click the Favorites button when you look up destinations. Once you’ve added to the Favorites, you can click the heart icon to reveal everything you’ve added (Figure 5). Click on one of the entries, and GNOME Maps will open to that destination.
To remove a location from your Favorites, here’s what you have to do:
Click to open the Favorites listing
Click on the destination to be removed
When the destination opens, click on the Favorites icon to remove the listing
Figure 5: Accessing your favorites from GNOME Maps.
There’s little more that can be done with Favorites.
Map Types
There are two types of maps:
Standard
Satellite view
By default, all maps will appear in Standard mode. If you want to get a satellite view of the current location, click on the map type selector and then select the bottom view from the pop-up (Figure 6).
Figure 6: Selecting the map type.
At this point, you should now see a satellite view of the current location. You can zoom in to get a better view. Do note, however, that the satellite view of GNOME Maps isn’t nearly as detailed (nor can it zoom in nearly as close) as Google Maps.
Let GNOME Do the Work
The GNOME apps are ready to go for you. Let them help you find your location, check the weather, play your music, and view your photos. Each app has come a long way since inception and are outstanding additions to the usual set of desktop tools. GNOME Maps is no exception…it’s incredibly handy and one of the easiest desktop map tools you’ll ever come across.
Docker’s participation in the Open Container project has come full circle, as the latest version of Docker is now built with components donated by Docker to the OCP.
The biggest news about Docker 1.11 isn’t features in the application, but that it uses component versions standardized under the aegis of the Open Container Project. Last year, Docker donated the core of its runC runtime to the OCP as a basis for building container tools. The same went for containerd, a daemon or server used to control instances of runC. Docker 1.11 now uses the donated and publicly worked-on versions of those projects.
ApacheCon is just a few weeks away, and I, for one, am really looking forward to it. I think it’s going to be the best yet. I think that every time, and so far, I’ve been right.
We’ve been doing ApacheCon for more than 15 years now, and it just keeps getting better. This year it will take place May 9-13 in Vancouver, Canada.
ApacheCon is the main community event of the Apache Software Foundation. Its primary goal is building community, both in size, and in strength. We build community strength by introducing projects to one another, and encouraging them to work together.
Of course, that can be done online, and, indeed, most of what we do at the ASF is done online – on mailing lists, IRC, and in the code repositories themselves. But there’s something about getting communities together, physically, that can’t be replicated online.
Leading up to ApacheCon, I’ve been doing a number of FeatherCast interviews with people who will be speaking at the upcoming event. They’ve talked about their own talks, as well as the other related talks that you might want to also see. Some of these are published already, and others will be coming soon.
Here’s an overview of what you can already find on FeatherCast.org, as well as what’ll be showing up in the next few days.
But there’s more to come. I have interviews scheduled with 11 more speakers – so I should just be able to fit them all in before ApacheCon. Check back at FeatherCast.org every day between now and ApacheCon for a new episode. Or, subscribe to the podcast at http://feathercast.org/ so you won’t miss an episode.
Rich Bowen has been doing Open Source for more than 20 years, working primarily on Perl, PHP, and the Apache web server. He’s the executive vice president of the Apache Software Foundation, and is very involved in ApacheCon, the primary conference of the ASF. Rich works at Red Hat in the Open Source and Standards Group, where he’s the community liaison for the OpenStack Project. Rich lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with his wife, three kids, a dog, and a lizard.
While it might make a particularly long URL look tidier, cloud services that use URL shorteners with only six characters could leave themselves vulnerable to malware attacks using brute force.
Typically, these cloud services use URL shorteners as a means of being able to share access to shared folders across the web in the same way someone might want to use it to share a link on character-sensitive platforms, but there could be consequences for both the user and host of the cloud service.
According to Boing Boing, a new research paper posted online states that, with the typical shortened URL containing just six characters, a brute force attack instigated by a hacker could, by the process of elimination, locate the URL, which would allow the hacker access to all of the shared folders.
