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8 Docker security rules to live by
Odds are, software (or virtual) containers are in use right now somewhere within your organization, probably by isolated developers or development teams to rapidly create new applications. They might even be running in production. Unfortunately, many security teams don’t yet understand the security implications of containers or know if they are running in their companies.
In a nutshell, Linux container technologies such as Docker and CoreOS Rkt virtualize applications instead of entire servers. Containers are superlightweight compared with virtual machines, with no need for replicating the guest operating system. They are flexible, scalable, and easy to use, and they can pack a lot more applications into a given physical infrastructure than is possible with VMs. And because they share the host operating system, rather than relying on a guest OS, containers can be spun up instantly (in seconds versus the minutes VMs require).
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Zigbee Writes a Universal Language for IoT
The nonprofit Zigbee Alliance today unveiled dotdot, a universal language for the Internet of Things (IoT).
The group says dotdot takes the IoT language at Zigbee’s application layer and enables it to work across different networking technologies.
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$25,000 Prize Offered in FTC IoT Security Challenge
It appears as if the Federal Trade Commission is getting serious about Internet of Things security issues -- and it wants the public to help find a solution. The FTC has announced a contest it's calling the "IoT Home Inspector Challenge." What's more, there's a big payoff for the winners, with the Top Prize Winner receiving up to $25,000 and each of a possible three "honorable Mentions" getting $3,000. Better yet, winners don't have to fork over their intellectual property rights, and will retain right to their submissions.
Of course, the FTC is a federal agency, and with a change of administrations coming up in a couple of weeks, it hedges its bet a bit with a caveat: "The Sponsor retains the right to make a Prize substitution (including a non-monetary award) in the event that funding for the Prize or any portion thereof becomes unavailable." In other words, Obama has evidently given the go-ahead, but they're not sure how Trump will follow through.
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LG threatens to put Wi-Fi in every appliance it releases in 2017
In the past few years, products at CES have increasingly focused on putting the Internet in everything, no matter how "dumb" the device in question is by nature. It's how we've ended up with stuff like this smart hairbrush, this smart air freshener, these smart ceiling fans, or this $100 pet food bowl that can order things from Amazon.
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Ex-MI6 Boss: When It Comes To Voting, Pencil And Paper Are 'Much More Secure' Than Electronic Systems
Techdirt has been worried by problems of e-voting systems for a long time now. Before, that was just one of our quaint interests, but over the last few months, the issue of e-voting, and how secure it is from hacking, specifically hacking by foreign powers, has become a rather hot topic. It's great that the world has finally caught up with Techdirt, and realized that e-voting is not just some neat technology, and now sees that democracy itself is at play. The downside is that because the stakes are so high, the level of noise is too, and it's really hard to work out how worried we should be about recent allegations, and what's the best thing to do on the e-voting front.
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Five things that got broken at the oldest hacking event in the world
Chaos Communications Congress is the world’s oldest hacker conference, and Europe’s largest. Every year, thousands of hackers gather in Hamburg to share stories, trade tips and discuss the political, social and cultural ramifications of technology.
As computer security is a big part of the hacker world, they also like to break things. Here are five of the most important, interesting, and impressive things broken this time.
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