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The Vulnerability Sitting in Front of Government Websites

In early August, in a sublet apartment on the eighth floor of a high-rise in central Tel Aviv, Aviv Yahav, a vulnerability researcher, opened a debugger and watched a memory address filled with zeros where it should have held a cryptographic secret. The affected system was a Fortinet FortiWeb appliance, a web application firewall deployed by thousands of organizations across the public and private sectors. The missing bytes were the secret used to derive session keys for authenticated user sessions.

What's New in Calico - Summer 2025

As Kubernetes adoption scales across enterprise architectures, platform architects face mounting pressure to implement consistent security guardrails across distributed, multi-cluster environments while maintaining operational velocity. Modern infrastructure demands a security architecture that can adapt without introducing complexity or performance penalties.

A complete security view for every Ubuntu LTS VM on Azure

Azure’s Update Manager now shows missing Ubuntu Pro updates for all Ubuntu Long-Term Support (LTS) releases: 18.04, 20.04, 22.04 and 24.04. The feature was first introduced for only 18.04 during its move to Expanded Security Maintenance. With this addition, Azure highlights where Ubuntu LTS instances would benefit from Expanded Security Maintenance updates if the administrator attaches an Ubuntu Pro license, even for instances running more recent Ubuntu releases.

Operational Challenges in Hybrid Physical-Digital Environments

Creating an ideal digital workplace environment may require some creativity. Hybrid cloud structures are excellent solutions for scaling companies with increased consumer demands. They also pose operational challenges that teams can overcome with the right strategies. Planning for those moments will prepare business leaders and their teams for the best possible outcomes.
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Atlassian Bitbucket Monitoring on Microsoft SCOM

As part of a customer project, we developed a custom Bitbucket Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). This tailored solution enables IT operations teams to monitor key performance and health metrics of Bitbucket environments, ensuring planning and bug-tracking platforms remain available and performant. With this Use Case paper, we aim to share our knowledge with the SCOM community, highlighting the possibilities of advanced monitoring on Microsoft SCOM and helping teams improve their day-to-day tasks.