JD Bungart

JD Bungart

Philippines
Mar
10
[SecureList] Network tunneling with… QEMU?

[SecureList] Network tunneling with… QEMU?

Cyberattackers tend to give preference to legitimate tools when taking various attack steps, as these help them evade detection systems while keeping malware development costs down to a minimum.
1 min read
Jan
09
[SecurityAffairs] Experts spotted a new macOS Backdoor named SpectralBlur linked to North Korea

[SecurityAffairs] Experts spotted a new macOS Backdoor named SpectralBlur linked to North Korea

Security researcher Greg Lesnewich discovered a backdoor, called SpectralBlur, that targets Apple macOS.
1 min read
Dec
19
OpenSSH 9.6 Released - Now with Less Terrapin!

OpenSSH 9.6 Released - Now with Less Terrapin!

OpenSSH 9.6 - It's Here! Great news from the SSH world! OpenSSH 9.6 has been released,
1 min read
Dec
14
[CircleID] It’s the Latency, FCC

[CircleID] It’s the Latency, FCC

Dave Taht, Chief Science Officer of LibreQOS and an embedded Linux developer and consultant since 1998, drafted a comment arguing that the FCC should “balance its near-term efforts on achieving Internet resilience and minimizing latency, instead of only increasing speed.”
1 min read
Dec
03
[Jeff Geerling] They said Pi clusters were CRAZY! (Mars 400)

[Jeff Geerling] They said Pi clusters were CRAZY! (Mars 400)

Jeff highlights the Mars 400 storage appliance's setup as a ceph cluster, its enhanced performance with a 10G Ethernet connection, and its notable energy efficiency, using only 5 watts when off and idling at 70 watts.
1 min read
Nov
22
[CBS NEWS] Microsoft hires Sam Altman 3 days after OpenAI fired him as CEO

[CBS NEWS] Microsoft hires Sam Altman 3 days after OpenAI fired him as CEO

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Microsoft was "extremely excited" that Altman and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, along with other managers from the AI company, would join Microsoft to lead a "new advanced AI research team."
1 min read
Nov
22
[Cloudflare] Making home Internet faster has little to do with “speed”

[Cloudflare] Making home Internet faster has little to do with “speed”

If the Internet is an information superhighway, bandwidth is the number of lanes on the road. The wider the road, the more traffic can fit on the highway at any time. Bandwidth is useful for downloading large files like operating system updates and big game updates.
2 min read
Nov
17
[The Friday First Responder] Intermittent Fasting - Three Lesser-Known Benefits by Dr Dan Pronk

[The Friday First Responder] Intermittent Fasting - Three Lesser-Known Benefits by Dr Dan Pronk

If you’re anything like me, you grew up with the mantra of “breakfast is the most important meal of the day” and the subsequent belief that if you didn’t cram food into your head every morning that you would somehow run out of fuel and grind to a halt.
1 min read
Nov
17
[DOMOS] Wi-Fi 6 could be the cause of all your problems

[DOMOS] Wi-Fi 6 could be the cause of all your problems

The introduction of Wi-Fi 6 has been a game-changer in terms of network speed and capacity. But does it improve user experience? It's crucial for telecommunication professionals to understand that this advancement is not without its challenges.
1 min read
Nov
17
[darkreading] Rackspace Ransomware Costs Soar to Nearly $12M

[darkreading] Rackspace Ransomware Costs Soar to Nearly $12M

Rackspace's 2022 ransomware attack costs only continue to mount, with lawsuits in the offing — and show the long-tail costs of a cyberattack.
1 min read