Linux as a Library: Unikernels are Coming

If you think about it, an operating system kernel is really just a very powerful shared library that offers services to many programs. Of course, it is a very powerful library, but still — its main purpose is to provide services to programs. Your program probably doesn’t use all of the myriad services the kernel provides. Even a typical system might not fully use all the things that are in a typical kernel. Red Hat has a new initiative to bring a technology called unikernels to the forefront. A unikernel is a single application linked with just enough of the …read more

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OpenLDAP Alternatives

This August marks the twentieth anniversary of the inception of the OpenLDAP™ Project, an open source version of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). In a backwards sort of homage to the “birthday” of OpenLDAP, open sourc… Continue reading OpenLDAP Alternatives

Facebook, RedHat, & Russian Twitterbots – Application Security Weekly #03

This week, Doug and Keith discuss the last of the top ten most critical web application security risks! They discuss security misconfiguration, insecure deserialization, insufficient logging and monitoring, and more on this episode of Application Secur… Continue reading Facebook, RedHat, & Russian Twitterbots – Application Security Weekly #03