Security and Digital Restrictions (DRM) Leftovers
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Security updates for Monday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (expat, haproxy, libphp-adodb, nbd, and vim), Fedora (chromium, cobbler, firefox, gnutls, linux-firmware, radare2, thunderbird, and usbguard), Mageia (gnutls), Oracle (.NET 5.0, .NET 6.0, .NET Core 3.1, firefox, and kernel), SUSE (firefox, tomcat, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (libxml2 and nbd).
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10 Common Security Mistakes Sysadmins Make & How To Avoid These Pitfalls
System administrators make mistakes and that's fine, as long as they learn from them. Learning from your mistakes will develop more skills, advance your career, and make you a better systems admin. However, It’s also helpful to learn from the blunders of others. This is why I’ve compiled a list of common 10 mistakes that system admins make, and how to address these problems.
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Fresche Solutions Acquires Linux and IBM Security Services Company Trinity Guard - MSSP Alert
Fresche Solutions, an IBM solutions provider backed by private equity firms American Pacific Group (APG) and Northstar Capital, has acquired security, auditing and detection software and services company Trinity Guard. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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High Availability Farming — The Repair Association
Deere & Company is stating that tractors are like aircraft in their complexity. I laughed at the thought of a flying tractor. But apart from the visual joke, the analogy makes Deere’s repair restrictions seem even more absurd.
Modern tractors are full of computers, just like aircraft, cars, and data centers. Putting a computer chip in a tractor doesn’t make it fly like an aircraft but does make it function just as a mainframe computer with multiple controllers and peripherals in a data center. Keeping that equipment up and running is a critical part of design as every farmer, pilot and computer geek knows.
In the computer industry as with aircraft, uptime—aka “High Availability”—is essential. Yet Deere has been building products using hundreds, if not thousands, of parts, any one of which is a single point of failure, and then tying the replacement of those parts to their exclusive control. Every delay created by this service model becomes a critical issue for farmers.
Aircraft are full of redundant sensors for this very reason. Data center storage is “redundant,” “hot swappable,” and “plug and play”—techniques that have allowed for the exceptional uptime that we have come to expect in the air and online. Despite the opportunity to learn from both the airline industry and data center computing, Deere has designed equipment using hundreds of small sensors without building the redundancy needed for producers to keep rolling in the event of a component failure.
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