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Is it Linux? Is it third-party? Is it proprietary? Isn’t #vcmp just a #virtualization platform? Just what is inside an F5 BIG-IP that makes it go vroom? Over the years I’ve seen some pretty wild claims about what, exactly, is “inside” a BIG-IP that makes it go. I’ve read articles that claim it’s Linux, that it’s based on Linux, that it’s voodoo magic. I’ve heard competitors make up information about just about every F5 technology – TMOS, vCMP, iRules – that enables a BIG-IP to do what it doe...

The Lock May be Broken

A couple of weeks ago, a new security advisory was published: CVE-2012-0053 - “Apache HttpOnly Cookie Disclosure”. While the severity of this vulnerability is just “medium”, there are some things that we can learn from it. As far as I see it, this vulnerability actually uses a more sophisticated approach in order to steal sensitive information. It suggests an exploit proof of concept that combines two attack methods: 1. A well-known application security vulnerability named “Cross-Site Scri...

Does Social Media Reflect Society?

A Community within our Society You are what you eat; You become what you believe; I am not my art. A 2011 study from the University of Texas at Austin's Department of Psychology titled "Manifestations of Personality in Online Social Networks: Self-Reported Facebook-Related Behaviors and Observable Profile Information" found that Facebook users are no different online than they are offline. The study also declared a strong connection between someone’s real personality and their Facebook-related...

The Potential Ramifications of Platform-Based Vulnerabilities on Cloud Computing

#infosec #adcfw #cloud Alternate title: How to take out an entire PaaS cloud with one vulnerability Apache Killer. Post of Doom. What do these two vulnerabilities have in common? Right, they’re platform-based vulnerabilities. Meaning they are vulnerabilities peculiar to the web or application server platform upon which applications are deployed. Mitigations for such vulnerabilities generally point to changes in configuration of the platform – limit post size, header value sizes, turn off s...

1024 Words: Honey IT Badger Don’t Care

The reaction in IT when there’s something wrong with a core router is to avoid disruption and its associated costs to the business. The reaction in IT when a user has problems is to embrace disruption and its associated costs to the business. There’s something wrong with this model. Thanks, I know VMware tote a 3:1 Desktop/Thin Client ratio in terms of support burden, i.e. one engineer can service 100 fat clients or 300 t...

Desktop VDI May Be Ready for Prime Time but Is the Network?

#VDI #quasar #mobile The proliferation of mobile devices is pushing VDI closer to being “the solution” of the year to resolve the increasing complexity – and costs – associated with consumerization. Considering the innate differences between just the two most popular mobile operating systems – Android and iOS – gives rise to understanding how costly and complex an infrastructure might need to be to support both. It’s not at all unlike the issues with server virtualization. Management and deliv...

DevCentral Top5 02/03/2012

We're putting the band back together. And by band, I mean team. And by "putting back together" I mean we're all going to be in the same place, physically. This is a rarity for our remotely distributed team, but next week it is happening, and that is a great thing. It means planning, policies, preparation, prognostication and many other things that don't begin with the same letter. It also means that there will be some new, cool things to look forward to in what will likely be the near future, fr...

Advanced Load Balancing For Developers. The Network Dev Tool

It has been a while since I wrote an installment of Load Balancing for Developers, and now I think it has been too long, but never fear, this is the grad-daddy of Load Balancing for Developers blogs, covering a useful bit of information about Application Delivery Controllers that you might want to take advantage of. For those who have joined us since my last installment, feel free to check out the entire list of blog entries (along with related blog entries) here, though I assure you that this i...

F5 Friday: New Services from F5 Ease Migration and Upgrades

I get by with a little help from my friends… While cloud and virtualization primarily focus on improving the provisioning process, there is a lot more to managing a data center and its critical components than just deployment. There’s upgrades – both software and hardware – and migration to new solutions as well as tweaking knobs and buttons to optimize and troubleshoot issues. While public cloud computing may alleviate much of the pain associated with forward movement, private and hybrid en...

5 Stages of a Data Breach

One thing I’ve noticed over the last couple years is that there are 5 Stages of a Data Breach: Denial: We do not believe these attacks breached our critical servers. Anger: We want to make it clear that we take security seriously! Bargaining: We’d like to offer our affected customers a credit monitoring service. Depression: We wish we could have done things differently. Acceptance: Well, it just shows that no one is safe from hackers. ps Technorati Tags: F5, cyber-crime, trojan, Pete Si...

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