The final piece to this puzzle is actually displaying the search results to the user. The search engine results page takes all the hard work you’ve done with the servers, data ingestion, and index, culminating in a list of useful results for the user to pick from.How this looks will vary from search engine to search engine, but you’ll likely have a title, link, description, and … [Read more...] about How to create a search engine
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Slack’s New Logging Storage Engine Challenges Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch has long been the prominent solution for log management and analytics. Cloud-native and microservices architectures, together with the surge in workload volumes and diversity, have surfaced some challenges for web-scale enterprises such as Slack and Twitter. My podcast guest Suman Karumuri, a Sr. Staff software engineer at Slack, has made a career on solving this … [Read more...] about Slack’s New Logging Storage Engine Challenges Elasticsearch
New Vulnerability in CRI-O Container Engine (CVE-2022-0811)
CrowdStrike cloud security researchers discovered a new vulnerability (dubbed “cr8escape” and tracked as CVE-2022-0811) in the Kubernetes container engine CRI-O. CrowdStrike disclosed the vulnerability to Kubernetes, which worked with CRI-O to issue a patch that was released today. It is recommended that CRI-O users patch immediately. CrowdStrike customers are protected from … [Read more...] about New Vulnerability in CRI-O Container Engine (CVE-2022-0811)
Squirrel Engine Bug Could Let Attackers Hack Games and Cloud Services
Researchers have disclosed an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the Squirrel programming language that can be abused by attackers to break out of the sandbox restrictions and execute arbitrary code within a SquirrelVM, thus giving a malicious actor complete access to the underlying machine. Tracked as CVE-2021-41556, the issue occurs when a game library referred to as … [Read more...] about Squirrel Engine Bug Could Let Attackers Hack Games and Cloud Services
Unpatched Virtual Machine Takeover Bug Affects Google Compute Engine
An unpatched security vulnerability affecting Google's Compute Engine platform could be abused by an attacker to take over virtual machines over the network. "This is done by impersonating the metadata server from the targeted virtual machine's point of view," security researcher Imre Rad said in an analysis published Friday. "By mounting this exploit, the attacker can grant … [Read more...] about Unpatched Virtual Machine Takeover Bug Affects Google Compute Engine
Cynet Takes Cyber Threat Protection Automation to the Next Level with Incident Engine
We have all heard of the "cybersecurity skills gap" — firms' inability to hire and retain high-level cybersecurity talent.I see this gap manifesting in two ways. First, companies that want to hire cybersecurity talent simply cannot find candidates with sufficient skills. Second, companies that cannot afford specialized cybersecurity talent and therefore lack the necessary … [Read more...] about Cynet Takes Cyber Threat Protection Automation to the Next Level with Incident Engine