Articles and News

Can I take Your Subdomain?

This site and the related paper focuses on same-site attacks on the modern web through the takeover of insufficiently secured subdomains.

https://canitakeyoursubdomain.name/

#dns #security

An EPYC escape: Case-study of a KVM breakout

The Google Project Zero team explains how AMD-specific led to KVM virtual machine escape.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/06/an-epyc-escape-case-study-of-kvm.html

#virtualization-security #kvm #amd #amd-epyc

Nice Nginx Features for Operators

The blog presents some practical Nginx features, e.g., rate-limiting, caching, and the split-client module.

https://alex.dzyoba.com/blog/nginx-features-for-operators/

#nginx

Video: Kind Engineering: How to Engineer Kindness

In his talk, Evan Smith gives practical tips on how to become a kinder engineer.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa21/presentation/smith

#teamwork

System CPU Time – sys Time in top

This blog post explains system CPU time and user CPU time.

https://blog.ycrash.io/2020/11/28/system-cpu-time-sys-time-in-top/

#linux-top #systems-performance

REvil

»A massive REvil ransomware attack affects multiple managed service providers and over a thousand of their customers through a reported Kaseya supply-chain attack.«

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/revil-ransomware-hits-1-000-plus-companies-in-msp-supply-chain-attack/

#supply-chain-security #supply-chain-attack

Projects and Releases

Internet-in-a-Box

»Internet-in-a-Box brings the power of a free Digital Library of Alexandria into the hands of any school, hospital, or community worldwide.«

https://internet-in-a-box.org/

#offline-reader #knowledge-base #wikimedia

The Open Voice Network

The Open Voice Network is a Voice assistance project funded by the Linux Foundation.

https://openvoicenetwork.org/

#voice-assistance

OpenZFS 2.1

The latest OpenZFS version comes with support for Distributed RAID (dRAID) topology.

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1777983

#type:release #openzfs #zfs

Timeshift

Timeshift for Linux takes system snapshots in regular intervals.

https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift

#backup

apprise

apprise is a notification framework that integrates many popular notification services.

https://github.com/caronc/apprise

git-quick-stats

https://github.com/arzzen/git-quick-stats

#git

A Curated List of Books on Software Architecture

https://github.com/mhadidg/software-architecture-books

#software-architecture

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