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by aus_ 11y ago
To clarify, zIIP processing is only relevant under z/OS. Linux processing runs under IFLs. But that's not to say you can't get some offloading in Linux. By design, mainframes can hardware accelerate some processing. The crytp
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by aus_ 11y ago
In 2012, The Economist reported that mainframes accounted for about a quarter of IBM's revenue and about half of its profits. [0] [1] IT budgets for large banks and financial firms usually dedicate something like 20% their budget to ma
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by aus_ 11y ago
Modern mainframes have an optional cryptographic coprocessor addon. The hardware, or cryptocard [1], is specialized to provide high-throughput for common cryptographic functions, including SHA-256. (It does lots more than that too.) The lat
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Vero: true TV(getvero.tv)
2 points by aus_ 12y ago|0 comments
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by aus_ 12y ago
Ah! Got it now. Thanks. Ok. Now I'm concerned.
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by aus_ 12y ago
Not to understate the severity of this issue, but how is this any different than if I built a custom device that contained a USB hub + emulated HID keyboard to fire off a malicious macro + flash storage housed inside a plastic shell that lo
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by aus_ 12y ago
I assume this is why AWS forcefully rebooted many of their VMs recently?
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by aus_ 12y ago
Shellshock is also "reverse-shell-able". This Python script relies on /dev/tcp which is not available by default on some distros. (Source: @ortegaalfredo) But you could probably rework it to use netcat. http:/&#x2
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by aus_ 12y ago
RS is great. My wife runs a fashion blog and it's the best affiliate platform out there right now. It makes monetizing your links a cinch. However, I have had problems with performance. I think they are just struggling to keep up with
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Keyboard Acoustic Emanations (2004) [pdf](rakesh.agrawal-family.com)
8 points by aus_ 12y ago|2 comments
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by aus_ 12y ago
While a different technique, this reminds me of how researchers were able to extract keystrokes based on the sound from each key press. Here is the original paper: http://rakesh.agrawal-family.com/papers/ssp04kba.pdf
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Turning USB peripherals into BadUSB(srlabs.de)
7 points by aus_ 12y ago|3 comments
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by aus_ 12y ago
SkyDock[0] is another alternative. It uses SkyDNS. It is a little more setup, but it has a few additional features. crosbymichael is a sharp guy. [0]: https://github.com/crosbymichael/skydock
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by aus_ 12y ago
These are handy when you are stuck on a connection that blocks everything but HTTP(S), like many corporate environments. Many of these web-based ssh tools are based of the excellent term.js[0]. [0]: https://github.com/chjj&
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by aus_ 12y ago
Someone is submitting false keys in their POST data :D -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- MIIEowIBAAKCAQEAwYUYN1fR2/z+Net8DdDhNR7poeX608gwFNDVTQZNjldwi503 cLCaFbPpGkkh84sxpsL0PqrMx9OprdNaMPe0ewuTjjZyb1MaqzfXz/XCiOaT7kWZ P9b
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by aus_ 13y ago
I work for a large financial company. At our shop, we are currently building out an internal cloud infrastructure where we build on too of the OpenStack API to provide users with self service deployment much like AWS. In order to deploy to
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by aus_ 13y ago
I just saw Wolf of Wall Street this weekend. Has anyone in sales been asked "sell me this pen" in an interview?
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by aus_ 13y ago
Definitely. He did some amazing stuff with the original Xbox. Somewhat dated, but worth a read. His ebook has been made freely available in memory of Aaron Swartz: http://bunniefoo.com/nostarch/HackingTheXbox_Free.pdf
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by aus_ 13y ago
ZFS is great. But one thing scares me away from using it. With ZFS, you can't just simply add a new disk raidz set. You have to either build a new pool to send your data to, or : 1. Buy the same amount of (but larger) hard-disks 2. R
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by aus_ 13y ago
This is more than a terminal in your browser. It is an HTTP server that serves a Javascript-powered terminal connected to the box. You effectively have a secure shell connection encapsulated in HTTP(S). Perfect for restrictive environments.
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by aus_ 13y ago
Similar Web-based SSH[0] projects include: • shellinabox • GateOne • AnyTerm • AjaxTerm • tty.js I currently use GateOne. It's a little bloated and buggy though. I may give tty.js a shot. I've heard good things. [0]: http:/&
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by aus_ 13y ago
The Secure Shell Chrome Extension is actually quite different than what is being offered here. The Chrome extensions is effectively a SSH client, like PuTTY, in a browser. You still need a network path to the host. Onion Terminal is a HTTP
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by aus_ 13y ago
You're right. They would never allow you to create a business out of offering mainframe-as-a-service. But internally, offering this service to your developers in a large enterprise is feasible.
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by aus_ 13y ago
This isn't actually too far fetched. IBM has a product called Rational Developer and Test Environment for System z[0] which allows you to run z/OS or any other s390 architecture in their hypervisor. Think of it as an enterprise ve
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by aus_ 13y ago
The killer feature is I/O and proximity to mainframe data. With hipersockets, you get memory-to-memory speed networking to your mainframe data. You just can't replicate that in VMware.
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by aus_ 13y ago
Nationwide is the poster child of consolidating on zLinux. [1] But of course, that's all marketing from IBM. I believe their target market is to customers who already have the z hardware being used for their z/OS processing. The
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by aus_ 13y ago
Mainframer here. Hercules is a pretty amazing piece of software. (Fun fact: One of the main developers, Jay Maynard [1], is also known as the "Tron guy") Unfortunately, Hercules is as close as the average person can get to the pla
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by aus_ 13y ago
PCWorld reports he "hacked IBM mainframes". [1] I would be interested in knowing the details of this. I am a sysprog for z/OS for a financial institution by day, and I have never heard of any sort of intrusion like this. Not that these syst
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by aus_ 14y ago
I'd like to thank the developers for this great project. I finally convinced my team to switch over from SVN to git after I showed them Gitlab. (GitHub was never an option due to corporate data security policies. Even for GitHub private rep
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by aus_ 14y ago
I believe the developers chose to develop on GitHub so the project would get more exposure to the open source community. And because Gitlab.com is more oriented to private repository hosting. [1] [1]: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/i

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