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Don’t Delete PCAP Files – Trim Them! – NETRESEC Blog

Nice tool for people who are crafting an artisanal logging system

Response: HP, Asus announce first Windows 10 ARM PCs: 20 hour battery life, gigabit LTE | Ars Technica

Hey look, Microsoft just arrived in 2010.

Response: media.ccc.de – 1-day exploit development for Cisco IOS

How to crack Cisco IOS with SNMP RCE examples.

Its time for Network Field Day 17

My privilege to review whats coming up 24th Jan

BiB 20: Broadcom Tomahawk 3 Announced With 32x400G ports

Holy cow. Broadcom Tomahawk 3 is a 32 x 400G ASIC at lower power, latency and reduced cost/100G speed. Built for the cloud it signals the next generation of 200G/400G Ethernet is on its way.

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Internet Giants Should Be Broken Up

This is a 30 minute presentation that highlights the lack of societal value that Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon deliver. Galloway examines their market dominance and how the market is failing to regulate or control the tech companies. I recommend watching this and considering the ideas proposed here. Galloway is well known and worth listening […]

Popular Destinations rerouted to Russia – BGPmon

Reminder that Internet is not safe or secure

Starboard Value discloses 10.7% stake in Mellanox

Too Much R&D Makes a Vulnerable Tech Company ? Really ?

Nutanix: We don’t need a traditional channel program | Channelnomics

Interesting piece on Nutanix and resellers: Nutanix’s senior director of EMEA channels Jan Ursi has defended against a claim the firm has no clear channel strategy, suggesting that the hyperconverged vendor does not rely on conventional methods, such as reward programs, in order to foster partner relationships. Some thoughts Building a reseller channel is expensive […]

Research: CrystalNet: Faithfully Emulating Large Production Networks

Microsoft research paper on network emulation at scale

Turn Network Engineers into Software Engineers

Peyton Koran, Director of Technical Engagement at Electronic Arts, delivered a great session on why network vendors are losing to open source and whitebox. His view is that network engineers need to embrace software engineering, be flexible. Vendors and VARs are no longer working to benefit of the customer but to benefit themselves with increased […]

WISP Design: Using eBGP and OSPF transit fabric for traffic engineering – YouTube

Kevin Myers talks at the Mikrotik conference about the use of BGP & OSPF in WISP design.

Battle Scars from OpenStack Are Just Cloud Problems

Cloud scars are the same everywhere, not just OpenStack.

Facebook exec: ‘Just not true’ that we listen to your phone’s mic | The Outline

Because Facebook makes billions exploiting the personal surveillance business data it collects, stores and analyses. More data means more revenue from better targeted advertising (in theory): “I run ads product at Facebook. We don’t – and have never – used your microphone for ads. Just not true,” tweeted Rob Goldman, vice president of ads products […]

How to be an infosec thought leader – YouTube

Funny because its true. Security professionals are a weird bunch of people. Becoming a thought leader is the epitome of professional success. But a thought leader isn’t a title that one attains by going to Harvard, or Cambridge. No, it’s a title bestowed by your peers. How to be an infosec thought leader – YouTube […]