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Microsoft’s August 2024 Patch Tuesday Addresses 88 CVEs

Tenable

The vulnerability which exists in Windows Backup, allows a user with basic privileges to “reintroduce previously mitigated vulnerabilities or circumvent some features of Virtualization Based Security (VBS)”. An attacker could remotely exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted IPv6 packets to a host.

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How Netflix uses eBPF flow logs at scale for network insight

Netflix Tech

Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) is an in-kernel execution engine that processes a virtual instruction set, and has been extended as eBPF for providing a safe way to extend kernel functionality. The choice of transport protocols like GRPC, HTTPS & UDP is runtime dependent on characteristics of the instance placement. What is BPF?

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Scaling BGP Peering in Kentik's SaaS Environment

Kentik

Moreover, each BGP session can be used as the transport to push mitigations , such as RTBH and Flowspec, triggered by alerting from the platform. IPv6 peerings are starting to outgrow a single node. It also allowed mirroring the setup for our IPv6 fabric. Scaling phases. Improvement of the Phase 2 setup became imperative.

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