CrowdStrike, after a botched update crashed millions of computers globally, offered $10 Uber Eats gift cards as an apology. These vouchers were later flagged as fraud and canceled. The faulty update affected approximately 8.5 million Windows devices, causing significant disruptions worldwide includi.. read more  

Dive into the internal workings of Linux networking with Kien Nguyen-Tuan's comprehensive 28-minute read. This guide is an essential resource for understanding how Linux handles network packets, from reception to transmission. Perfect for network administrators and Linux enthusiasts aiming to optimi.. read more  

Grafana Labs supports Ansible users through its Grafana Ansible collection, which now includes Grafana Mimir deployments. The collection helps administrators deploy and manage Grafana resources, including Mimir, across multiple Linux hosts. The Mimir role, available in the Grafana Ansible collection.. read more  

CI/CD practices integrate code changes automatically and deploy them to testing or production environments, catching issues early to improve efficiency and quality. Checks adds automated privacy and compliance scanning to CI/CD pipelines, supporting platforms like GitHub, Jenkins, and GitLab. Benefi.. read more  

A tech failure caused global travel chaos and impacted banking and healthcare services. The issue has been identified as an update to CrowdStrike's antivirus software, affecting only Windows PCs. The fix requires manual rebooting in safe mode and airport operations have been heavily disrupted worldw.. read more  

Imagine visiting a website showing innocent kitten pictures. But behind all those cute feline creatures hides this website’s superpower. As soon as someone visits this website, the owner of the website gets access to all the visitor’s online presence. He gets access to your banking information, your.. read more  

The post discusses implementing a DNS traffic monitoring system in Golang, capturing DNS queries and counting domain request frequencies. It employs Go libraries for web serving, packet capturing, and DNS parsing, updating query counts with thread safety using a mutex. The system provides real-time .. read more  

The Proactive PostgreSQL Database Performance Scanner helps monitor PostgreSQL databases by identifying performance issues such as inefficient queries, high CPU utilization, and excessive active connections. It runs a script with probes for different performance metrics and generates detailed report.. read more  

Mirantis releases MOSK 24.2, featuring a dynamic resource balancer to automate workload distribution and prevent hypervisor overloading. The Distributed Resource Balancer is comparable to VMware's DRS but implemented for OpenStack without complex dependencies. MOSK 24.2 is built on OpenStack 2024.1/.. read more