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04 January 2018
The Processor as a Security Vulnerability
At the beginning of 2018, issues with memory management and Intel processors became public. According to these reports, it is apparently possible to read arbitrary areas of the kernel and userspace memory regions and thus potentially gain access to sensitive areas. Over the past few days, there have been rumors and speculations about the direction […]
20 December 2017
Varnish - An Introduction
General Information and History of Varnish Varnish combines the functionalities of a reverse proxy, HTTP load balancer, and cache for data delivered via HTTP. Development started around 2006 with version 0.9 as the first release and has now reached version 5.1. Varnish is available both as a free Community Edition (BSD license) and an Enterprise […]
20 October 2017
credativ PostgreSQL Appliance 'Elephant Shed' released
The credativ PostgreSQL® Appliance is now available for download as a completely free Open Source solution. The new appliance called ‘Elephant Shed PostgreSQL® Appliance‘ offers a tremendous ease of use for enterprise PostgreSQL® operations. The long-term maintenance of the appliance will be handled by the PostgreSQL® experts of credativ. Prepared images for the major cloud […]
07 August 2017
credativ joins the OpenChain community!
San Francisco, United States, August 7, 2017 – From today credativ is going to be a part of the OpenChain community and adhere to the specifications given by the OpenChain Project. “The addition of credativ brings another important Open Source pillar into the OpenChain community and boosts our mission to make Open Source Software compliance […]
12 May 2017
PostgreSQL® Auditing Extension on Debian/Ubuntu
The pgAudit extension allows for fine-grained auditing of access to a PostgreSQL® database. Among other things, it is an important component of the recently published PostgreSQL® STIG (“Security Technical Implementation Guide”) by the US Department of Defense. Debian packages created by us as part of the pkg-postgresql project are now available in the official PostgreSQL® […]