Bounties and Responsible Disclosure Bolstered Crypto Infrastructure This Year
Cryptocurrency transfers work because of the software developed by programmers like Satoshi Nakamoto and many other innovators along the way. As with all software, however, blockchain protocols are not perfect, and over the last decade black and white hat hackers have revealed many bugs. In 2018, developers earned over $878,000 in blockchain bug bounties by disclosing vulnerabilities. Moreover, two of the world’s largest digital...
Anti-Piracy Companies Continually Report IMDb as a Pirate Site
Anyone even remotely interested in movies and the Internet will have likely stumbled across the Internet Movie Database, or IMDb for short. The site is an absolute goldmine of information on every imaginable movie, listing everything from cast and crew to user reviews, trailers and trivia, with dozens of additional data points to allow the consumer to research and invest in content. IMDb is an entirely legal venture but for reasons...
Pirate IPTV Services Will Be Blocked Says Set-Top Box Manufacturer
Over the past couple of years, unauthorized IPTV services have been making their presence known in the ‘pirate’ TV space. As recently reported, pirate IPTV services are accessed by 5.5% of US and Canadian households. The range of content is phenomenal, with few – if any – official entertainment companies in a position to compete. Such services are typically accessed via set-top boxes, from ubiquitous...
Troubleshooting hardware problems in Linux
Linux servers run mission-critical business applications in many different types of infrastructures including physical machines, virtualization, private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid cloud. It’s important for Linux sysadmins to understand how to manage Linux hardware infrastructure—including software-defined functionalities related to networking, storage, Linux containers, and multiple tools on Linux servers. read...
5 things you didn't know about Istio
Microservices are rapidly rising in utilization, but their advantages are offset by the operational challenges reported by early adopters. Istio is one of the platforms that has emerged to make microservices environments simpler for enterprise IT teams. Istio is an open service mesh platform that enables developers to connect, observe, secure, and control microservices. read...
