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The U.S. is back to #1! – Summit, the fastest supercomputer in the world was engineered with smarts… here is why

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The U.S. is back to #1! – Summit, the fastest supercomputer in the world was engineered with smarts… here is why

The world’s fastest supercomputer is American again. President Donald Trump’s dedication to #MAGA (Making America Great Again) is showing results big time. Chief among them are the Tax Cut and Jobs Act (2017-2018), a booming economy and a growing stock market.

But economic prosperity also needs military might and IT technology that’s worthy of a superpower.

During the sad 8 years of the Obama presidency, the U.S. has ceded the #1 and #2 titles in the TOP500 super computers list to China.

That’s over.

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Fixing your Web Server’s Security Headers: From Hall of Shame to Hall of Fame

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Fixing your Web Server’s Security Headers: From Hall of Shame to Hall of Fame

[Updated 2018-06-10] This post explains how to set up robust security headers in NGINX to protect your web application from malicious payloads and other forms of attacks. Choose your HTTP(S) headers wisely.

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Attack vectors against TLS, implementation bugs, and how to mitigate TLS vulnerabilities in NGINX

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Attack vectors against TLS, implementation bugs, and how to mitigate TLS vulnerabilities in NGINX

In light of documented TLS vulnerabilities and implementation bugs, understanding known attack vectors becomes a necessity.

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TLS 1.3 (with AEAD) and TLS 1.2 cipher suites demystified: how to pick your ciphers wisely

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TLS 1.3 (with AEAD) and TLS 1.2 cipher suites demystified: how to pick your ciphers wisely

Until the day TLS 1.3 becomes widely supported, web servers must rely on a fallback to TLS 1.2 with correctly configured server directives and strong cipher suites. Pick the wrong settings and you declare an open season on your server.

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KVM set to replace the Xen hypervisor in AWS EC2 on the AWS re:Invent 2017 in Las Vegas

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KVM set to replace the Xen hypervisor in AWS EC2 on the AWS re:Invent 2017 in Las Vegas

During the upcoming AWS re:INVENT 2017 conference in Las Vegas (Nov. 27th – Dec. 1st), Amazon is going to present a major change to its cloud offering, one with enormous ramifications! Yes, you read that right—and yes, that exclamation mark is fully justified.

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