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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

Cloud Insidr 2018-06-13 Leave a Comment

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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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #1 on the TOP500 super computer list, IBM, Mellanox, NVIDIA, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Summit, US Department of Energy

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

Cloud Insidr 2018-05-21 1 Comment

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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Filed Under: cybersecurity and cyber warfare, encryption, Uncategorized Tagged With: certificate, cipher suites, cryptography, cybersecurity, Diffie-Hellman, encryption, exploits, HTTP/2, HTTPS, mitigation techniques, RSA, TLS, TLS vulnerabilities

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

Cloud Insidr 2018-05-11 1 Comment

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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Filed Under: cybersecurity and cyber warfare, encryption, Uncategorized Tagged With: authentication, cipher suites, Diffie-Hellman, encryption, HMAC, HTTPS, OpenSSL, RSA, TLS, TLS 1.2, TLS 1.3

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

Cloud Insidr 2017-11-09 Leave a Comment

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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Filed Under: cloud, edge and everything in between, Uncategorized Tagged With: AWS, AWS EC2, EC2, Google, IBM, KVM, KVM Hypervisor, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure

A quick introduction to SSL/TLS encryption: understanding certificates and key pairs

Cloud Insidr 2017-10-20 Leave a Comment

A quick introduction to SSL/TLS encryption: understanding certificates and key pairs

Confused about SSL/TLS certificates? Here is a quick and dirty introduction to SSL/TLS encryption.

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Filed Under: cybersecurity and cyber warfare, encryption, Uncategorized Tagged With: encryption, SSL, TLS

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