Security: Apple, Microsoft, Linux and New FUD
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The Internet of 200 Kilogram Things: Challenges of Managing a Fleet of Slot Machines
In a previous post we talked about Finland's Linux powered slot machines. It was mentioned that there are about 20 000 of these machines in total. It turns out that managing and maintaining all those machines is a not as easy as it may first appear.
In the modern time of The Cloud, 20 thousand machines might not seem like much. Basic cloud management software such as Kubernetes scales to hundreds of thousands, even millions of machines without even breaking a sweat. Having "only" 20 thousand machines may seem like a small and simple thing that can be managed by one intern in their spare time. In reality things get difficult as there are many unique challenges to managing slot machines as opposed to regular servers.
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There are roughly two different ways of updating an operating system install: image based updates and package based updates. Neither of these works particularly well in slot machine usage. Games are big, so downloading full images is not feasible, especially for machines that have poor network connections. Package based updates have the major downside that they are not atomic. In desktop and server usage this is not really an issue because you can apply updates at a known good time. For remote devices this does not work because they can be powered off at any time without any warning. If this happens during an upgrade you have a broken machine requiring a physical visit from a maintenance person. As mentioned above this is slow and expensive.
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Security updates for Friday
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How to Crack WinRAR Password Protected Files In Simple Steps?
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A 16-Year-Old Hacked Apple Servers And Stored Data In Folder Named ‘hacky hack hack’
Apple’s tall claims of keeping your data secured were shown mirror by an Australian teenager when he repeatedly hacked Apple servers and downloaded 90 GB of ‘secure files.’
As reported by The Age, the teenager hacked Apple’s mainframe multiple times from his home because he was a fan of the iPhone maker company and dreamed of working for Apple.
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Melbourne teen hacked into Apple's secure computer network, court told
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SEI CERT releases open-source Source Code Analysis Laboratory for pinpointing vulnerabilities
The Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI) CERT Division at Carnegie Mellon University released an open-source static analysis aggregator/correlator this week. Source Code Analysis application (SCALe) is designed to find vulnerabilities in application source code via multiple, independent static analysis tools.
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Two DDoS Friendly Bugs Fixed in Linux Kernel [Ed: It wasn’t even anything critical]
Maintainers behind the Linux kernel have rolled out patches in the past weeks for two bugs that are just ideal for causing havoc via DDoS attacks.
Both bugs affect the Linux kernel's TCP stack and are known to trigger excessive resource usage in Linux-based systems.
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Open-source vulnerabilities which will not die: Who is to blame? [Ed: Charlie Osborne is amplifying several Microsoft proxies whose sole purpose is to attack and badmouth FOSS to help sell proprietary software]
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Open Source security comes to GitHub [Ed: Sonatype is helping Microsoft entrap FOSS developers with their proprietary software]
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