HACKERS COULD COMMANDEER NEW PLANES THROUGH PASSENGER WI-FI
Boeing 787 Dreamliner jets, as well as Airbus A350 and A380 aircraft, have Wi-Fi passenger networks that use the same network as the avionics systems of the planes
What the fucking fuck. Air-gap or gtfo(tags: air-gap security planes boeing a380 a350 dreamliner networking firewalls avionics)
Tips for debugging EC2 Container Service
some basic ECS tips from Gilt
_Blade: a Data Center Garbage Collector_
Essentially, add a central GC scheduler to improve tail latencies in a cluster, by taking instances out of the pool to perform slow GC activity instead of letting them impact live operations. I’ve been toying with this idea for a while, nice to see a solid paper about it
(tags: gc latency tail-latencies papers blade go java scheduling clustering load-balancing low-latency performance)
SCADA systems online, and a horror story about a non-airgapped Boeing 747 engine management system
747’s are big flying Unix hosts. At the time, the engine management system on this particular airline was Solaris based. The patching was well behind and they used telnet as SSH broke the menus and the budget did not extend to fixing this. The engineers could actually access the engine management system of a 747 in route. If issues are noted, they can re-tune the engine in air. The issue here is that all that separated the engine control systems and the open network was NAT based filters. There were (and as far as I know this is true today), no extrusion controls. They filter incoming traffic, but all outgoing traffic is allowed.
(via Paddy Benson)-
Nice, simple “build a website” platform. Keeping this one bookmarked for the next time someone non-techie asks me for the simplest way to do just that (thanks for the tip, Oisin)
(tags: via:oisin blog cms design hosting web-design web websites)