Risky Business #385 — Richard Bejtlich talks USA/China espionage agreement
******LANGUAGE WARNING: The f-bomb features, unbleeped, once in this week's show. Just a note for those of you with the kids in the car.
On this week's show we're chatting with FireEye's chief security strategist Richard Bejtlich about this new agreement between China and the USA. The two countries have apparently agreed that they won't hack each other with the aim of stealing IP anymore. Questions to Richard include: Are they kidding? And: How did they announce this with a straight face?
PQ Show 57 – Improve Your Home Internet Performance Using CoDel
Rich Brown chats with Ethan Banks about CoDel, an algorithm specifically designed to minimize the impact of bufferbloat. Rich and Ethan explain how CoDel works, and discuss the head-drop principle, sojourn times, TCP ECN, and more. This is a nerdy look at how your modem handles buffering, and how you can improve your home networking experience.
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Startup Radar: Datiphy Watches For Database Dangers
Datiphy monitors database transactions to look for potentially malicious behavior. It builds a baseline of normal activity, and alerts if it detects deviations.
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Datanauts 010 – Automation For Fun And Profit
The Datanauts look at how automation improves efficiency and breaks down silos. They discuss tools including Puppet, Chef, and PowerShell, and suggest how to get started with automation in your organization.
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Bridging Between Cisco VIRL and GNS3 for L2 and Serial Support
One of the known issue for anyone preparing for a Cisco exam is that the solutions available today don’t support all the needed features. Cisco VIRL supports L2 switching out of the box, whereas GNS3 does not. GNS3 supports the configuration of serial interfaces on routers whereas Cisco VIRL does not. For someone starting out in this […]
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Network Break 55: Microsoft’s Switch, Security Gets Hotter
Network Break 55 examines new switch releases from Microsoft, Arista & Dell, a white-hot security market, Cisco security bugs, and why we don't need to get worked up about cloud outages any more.
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Skynet Barbie, Tablet Babysitters: This Week On The Internet
This Week On The Internet looks at an AI Barbie, the effect of mobile devices on young kids, how to fight surveillance, and funny cooking advice.
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Show 256 – Design & Build 6 – VXLAN Use Cases
VXLAN is an encapsulation protocol you can use for network virtualization. We'll discuss VXLAN use cases, pros and cons, and design considerations.
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PQ Show 56 – VMware NSX In Production – Sponsored
This sponsored Priority Queue looks at the realities of using NSX in production, discusses practical customer use cases for network virtualization, and examines issues raised by listeners about NSX.
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An EIGRP Scaling Puzzle
This last week I received an email from a friend asking about scaling. The situation is this: a particular company has well over 100 EIGRP routers on a single L2 service from a provider. Will this scale? What’s more interesting than simply asking about scale, though, is to ask the “why” question — no matter […]
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Cisco Targets SMBs In WLAN War With HP/Aruba
Cisco's new WLAN product, Mobility Express, targets customers who want simple deployment, and gives Cisco a weapon against HP/Aruba.
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Risky Business #384 — Mark Dowd talks AirDrop pwnage, XCode iOS scandal
We've got a great show for you this week. Mark Dowd drops by to talk about the recent spate of Trojaned iOS apps that made it into Apple's China App Store. We also talk to him about his awesome AirDrop bug. How did it work?
This week's sponsor segment is actually a real cracker. Context IS consultant David Klein tells us how he owned an entire cloud platform by enumerating some shitty 90s-style bugs in some third party libraries they were using. It's comedy gold. This cloud platform that uses security at a selling point. It's bad.
Increased Security Spending: Good Money After Bad?
A couple of recent analyst reports tout significant growth in the information security market. But More security spending on products doesn’t necessarily mean better outcomes for customers.
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Network Break 54: HP Blues, Listener Corrections
Network Break 54 examines HP's anticipated layoffs, financial news from startups, and listener feedback on what we got wrong about an Apple/Cisco partnership.
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The Open Networking Cheat Sheet
A variety of open projects target the network. This cheat sheet keeps track of who's doing what at OpenDaylight, OpenFlow, OVS, OpenStack, ONOS, and Open Compute.
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Starbucks On Dune, WiFi Allergies: This Week On The Internet
From pumpkin spice on Dune to WiFi allergies to a giant robot fight and more, here's some interesting stories that crossed my browser this week.
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Show 255 – Future of Networking with Douglas Comer
What is the Future of Networking according to Douglas Comer ?
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Risky Business #383 — Inside FireEye’s research gag
On this week's show we take a look at what the hell it happening in Germany, where FireEye sought and obtained an ex parte injunction against a bunch of security researchers over a presentation they were about to do at 44Con. We speak with infosec lawyer Alex Urbelis -- he was at 44Con when all this came to light and he shares his insights.
Datanauts 009 – The Silo Series: Designing A vSwitch
Today, networks extend into hypervisors via vSwitches. Network engineers ignore vSwitches at their peril. At the same time, virtualization engineers ignore the physical network at theirs. Let’s work together to configure a vSwitch as good as it can be.
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Brocade Launches SDN Controller 2.0 Built On OpenDaylight
Brocade has launched version 2.0 of its SDN Controller, a commercial distribution of OpenDaylight, the open source project. The company also announced two applications for topology visualization and managing flows.
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