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JetBrains Releases IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1
JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1 featuring support for Java 16, a new preview feature that instantly renders HTML changes, and support for WSL 2. is supported and it’s possible to run applications on Docker, WSL 2, or via SSH. Various other improvements include support for Docker, Kubernetes, Kotlin, Git and others.
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Infosec Teams Expand Use of Security Tools to Address Cloud Complexity, Survey Finds
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a non-profit organization, recently published its findings on the state of cloud security practices which shows accelerating cloud adoption, but a need for more sophisticated security approaches.
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Cloudflare Announces the General Availability of Cloudflare Workers Unbound
Recently, Cloudflare announced the general availability (GA) of Cloudflare Workers Unbound, a platform for applications like image processing or complex algorithms that need longer execution times.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of April 12th, 2021
It's been a busy week for the .NET community, with the release of new Visual Studio previews (Windows and Mac), updates to .NET Core 3.1 and 2.1, new releases from the Azure team, and more. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of April 12th, 2021.
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Amazon Forks Elasticsearch Rebranding It as OpenSearch
Amazon recently announced the release of OpenSearch, a fork derived from versions 7.10.2 of ElasticSearch and Kibana. OpenSearch is licensed under the Apache License, V2 (ALv2). Elastic recently made adjustments to their Elastic License to simplify the usage of their code for non-commercial purposes.
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Infrastructure Vulnerability Scanner Checkov Adds Context Aware Assessments
Bridgecrew has announced the first 2.x version of Checkov. Checkov is an open-source scanner for infrastructure as code (IaC). The 2.0 release includes a re-architected backend that is now graph-based allowing for better processing of multi-resource queries. There has also been an increase in coverage with the addition of nearly 250 new policies.
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Netflix Open Sources ConsoleMe to Manage Permissions and Access on AWS
Netflix has recently open-sourced ConsoleMe, a AWS multi-account management service, and its CLI utility, Weep. The tools provide a central control plane for permissions management across all of AWS accounts of an organization and help to implement the principle of least privilege.
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GitHub Changes Token Format to Improve Identifiability, Secret Scanning, and Entropy
GitHub has recently moved to a new format for all of its tokens, including personal access, OAuth access, user-to-server and server-to-server, and refresh tokens. As GitHub engineer Heather Harvey explains, the new format aims to make tokens more easily identifiable, including when scanning repos for secrets, and to increase their entropy.
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HashiCorp Announces the General Availability of HCP Vault on AWS
Recently, HashiCorp announced the general availability of their fully-managed Vault service for AWS environments on the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP). With Vault, customers can leverage a SaaS service with secret management and encryption capabilities.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS
Recently AWS announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), which provides a new managed service that makes it easier for Red Hat OpenShift customers to build, scale, and manage containerized applications on AWS. The service offers a fully-managed OpenShift service with joint support from AWS and Red Hat.
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Cheryl Hung on Trends in Cloud Native and DevOps for 2021
In a recent keynote for The DEVOPS Conference, Cheryl Hung, VP ecosystem for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), shared her top 10 predictions for cloud native in the upcoming year. This includes improvements in cross cloud support, growth in GitOps and chaos engineering practices, and an increase in the adoption of FinOps.
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AWS Introduces EC2 Serial Console: Troubleshoot Boot and Networking Issues
AWS has recently introduced the EC2 Serial Console, a tool to establish a serial connection to EC2 instances and troubleshoot boot and network connectivity issues.
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AWS and Cloudflare Add Bot Management Features to Their Firewalls
Both AWS and Cloudflare have released new bot mitigation features into their respective firewall products. Both releases provide additional features for filtering out unwanted bot traffic from reaching the application.
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Google Announces the General Availability of A2 Virtual Machines
Recently, Google announced A2 Virtual Machines (VMs)' general availability based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPUs in Compute Engine. According to the company, the A2 VMs will allow customers to run their NVIDIA CUDA-enabled machine learning (ML) and high-performance computing (HPC) scale-out and scale-up workloads efficiently at a lower cost.
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Two Hidden Instructions Discovered in Intel CPUs Enable Microcode Modification
Security researchers Mark Ermolov, Dmitry Sklyarov, and Maxim Goryachy discovered two undocumented x86 instructions that can be used to modify the CPU microcode. The instructions can only be executed when the CPU runs in debug mode, which makes them not easily exploitable, though.