Matt Gillard mattgillard

A collection of The Morning Paper posts relating to containers, operating systems etc.

In order of first appearance in The Morning Paper.

| Title | Description

Slides for Re:Invent conference

Re:Invent 2018
Re:Invent 2017
Re:Invent 2016
Re:Invent 2015
Re:Invent 2014
Re:Invent 2013
Re:Invent 2012

How to use Python3 Type Hints in AWS Lambda

TL;DR

Static Type Checkers help you find simple (but subtle) bugs in your Python code. Check out lambda_types.py and incrementally improve your code base and development/debugging experience with type hints.

Your Lambda Function code will go from this:

In absolutely no order

Insertion Evasion and Denial of Service: Eluding Network Intrusion Detection http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~adrian/731-sp04/readings/Ptacek-Newsham-ids98.pdf
The Geometry of Innocent Flesh on the Bone: Return-into-libc without Function Calls (on the x86) https://hovav.net/ucsd/dist/geometry.pdf
Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs161/fa08/papers/stack_smashing.pdf
Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/03/exploiting-dram-rowhammer-bug-to-gain.html
Understanding and Hardening Linux Containers https://www.nccgroup.trust/globalassets/our-research/us/whitepapers/2016/april/ncc_group_understanding_hardening_linux_containers-1-1.pdf
Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution https://meltdownattack.com/spectre.pdf
Dolphin Emulator Internals (PPC) https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/pocorgtfo06.pdf
This World of Ours https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_micke

	## This Script is intended to be used for Querying remaining time and resetting Terminal Server (RDS) Grace Licensing Period to Default 120 Days.
	## Developed by Prakash Kumar ([email protected]) May 28th 2016
	## www.adminthing.blogspot.com
	## Disclaimer: Please test this script in your test environment before executing on any production server.
	## Author will not be responsible for any misuse/damage caused by using it.

	Clear-Host
	$ErrorActionPreference = "SilentlyContinue"

	## Display current Status of remaining days from Grace period.

	function setup-volume {
	param(
	[parameter(mandatory=$true,helpmessage="drive letter")]
	[string] $driveletter,
	[parameter(mandatory=$false,helpmessage="file system label")]
	[string] $label = ""
	)

	$driveletter = $driveletter.ToLower()

	import boto3
	import time
	region = 'eu-west-1'
	user_data_script = """#!/bin/bash
	instanceid=$(curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id)
	cd /
	mkdir moodledata
	mount -t nfs4 -o nfsvers=4.1,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,hard,timeo=600,retrans=2 fs-xxxxxxxxxxc.efs.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com:/ moodledata
	tar czf mooodledata-backup-$(date +%d-%m-%Y_%H-%M).tar.gz /moodledata
	aws s3 mv mooodledata-backup-*.tar.gz s3://xxxxxxxxx/

	// A quick script for converting Medium HTML files to Markdown, suitable for use in a static file generator such as Hugo or Jekyll
	package main

	import (
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"log"
	"os"
	"path/filepath"
	"regexp"

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