A Ian Kelling points out that the infrastructure for the Free Software Foundation “has been under attack since August 2024.”
“Nothing has changed since the article,” FSF sysadmin a report from LibreNews noting similar issues at high-profile FOSS sites including the Fedora project, KDE GitLab infrastructure, the GNOME GitLab instance, Diaspora, and even the FOSS news site Linux Weekly News. (And “GNOME has been experiencing issues since a last November…”)
Articles like the FSF’s are a way of sharing “techniques and tools”, McMahon said Tuesday. Though he adds that some system administrators also have a private mailing list “where we can coordinate and share effective strategies. The specific mitigations often cannot be published because that would give our attackers an advantage.”
There’s a lot to learn from the FSF’s battle against the bots — about the tactics of sysadmins, but also about Continue reading
Last month viewers from 56 countries tuned in for a very special livestreamed event: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers reunited 80-year-old a special presentation from the very room where they first wrote the TCP/IP protocol together more than 50 years ago.
“It’s truly an exciting honor to be here to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the work that Bob Kahn and I started, and so many have contributed to,” Cerf said during a Google vice president and their chief internet evangelist. Kahn is now chair and CEO of the not-for-profit
77-year-old Vint Cerf is credited as the father of the internet — but he’s now tackling an even bigger challenge. He’s joined with the scientists who envision a network that can scale across hundreds of millions of miles, in an airless vacuum, where data transmissions can be blocked by, for example, the planet Jupiter. Cerf’s working with a team whose lofty new dream is an internet which can connect our spacecraft in outer space — to the other spacecraft, and to listeners waiting here on earth.
It’s instructive to see how engineers approach a task that stretches endless on an interplanetary scale — and what it took to lead scientists to this galaxy-sized dream.
Guide to the Galaxy
Back in the 1970s, Cerf co-developed the TCP/IP protocol with Bob Kahn, which became the foundation for all internet communication today. (Though in a recent article in Quanta, Cerf stresses that “A lot of people contributed to the creation of the internet.”) But what’s less known is that Cerf has also held a lifelong interest in outer space. One
Cyberattackers are now increasingly targeting APIs, especially in the financial sector, according to content delivery network Akamai’s between 15% and 30% of all web traffic. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company hAndy Ellis neatly summarized the resultsemail to VentureBeat, Akamai explained some of the advantages of automation: criminals “use bots and tools that allow threading, or multiple simultaneous connections, to attempt multiple logins at once.” And by targeting APIs, “they hope to avoid some front-end defenses and speed up their validation times.” A recent Franck V. on
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