AT&T Likes That the ONF Brings Original Design Manufacturers to the Table
AT&T is at 63 percent of its goal to bring 75 percent of its networks under SDN control by 2020, according to AT&T CTO Andre Fuetsch.
Interview with Kevin Olivieri, Digital Content and Social Media Manager at Juniper Networks
In this inverview, I sit down with Kevin Olivieri, Digital Content and Social Media Manager at Juniper Networks. We discuss social media trends, thoughts around building out a social media and branding strategy, analysis of different social media platforms and analytics tools, and the democratization of video content. To top it off, we even get …Citrix Buys Sapho for $200M to Grow Its Digital Workspace Tech
Sapho develops micro-applications that help connect modern workplace collaboration tools with legacy SaaS products.
Microsoft, IBM Top ABI’s Blockchain Platform Provider List
The research firm evaluated 11 blockchain-as-a-service platforms. It looked at the different features they offered as well as their involvement in trials and pilots.
CAA Records and Site Security
The little green lock—now being deprecated by some browsers—provides some level of comfort for many users when entering personal information on a web site. You probably know the little green lock means the traffic between the host and the site is encrypted, but you might not stop to ask the fundamental question of all cryptography: using what key? The quality of an encrypted connection is no better than the quality and source of the keys used to encrypt the data carried across the connection. If the key is compromised, then entire encrypted session is useless.
So where does the key pair come from to encrypt the session between a host and a server? The session key used for symmetric cryptography on each session is obtained using the public key of the server (thus through asymmetric cryptography). How is the public key of the server obtained by the host? Here is where things get interesting.
The older way of doing things was for a list of domains who were trusted to provide a public key for a particular server was carried in HTTP. The host would open a session with a server, which would then provide a list of domains where Continue reading
ZTE Flips the RAN Script on Samsung in Q3, Says Dell’Oro
The Chinese vendor managed to shrug off procurement challenges during the first half of the year tied to a U.S. government ban on ZTE acquiring components from U.S. manufacturers.
Report: IBM Taps TSMC for 7nm Data Center Server Chips
The deal would be a major win for TSMC as it challenges Intel’s dominance in the data center.
Tech Bytes: How First Bank Said Goodbye To MPLS With Silver Peak SD-WAN (Sponsored)
Hear how First Bank replaced all its branch MPLS connections with low-cost broadband by using SD-WAN technology from our sponsor Silver Peak on the latest episode of Tech Bytes.
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The Week in Internet News: The Bottom Line of IoT Security
The cost of IoT breaches: Companies struggling with Internet of things security are seeing a monetary impact, says WeLiveSecurity.com. About a quarter of companies struggling with IoT security have reported losses of at least US $34 million in the last two years, according to a recent survey.
International cyber deal: French President Emmanuel Macron called on other nations to join his country in an international pact against malicious activity online, reports ITworldCanada.com. Nations signing the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace would agree to “condemn malicious cyber activities in peacetime, notably the ones threatening or resulting in significant, indiscriminate or systemic harm to individuals and critical infrastructure and welcome calls for their improved protection.” The pact, advanced at the Internet Governance Forum in Paris, was signed by 51 other countries, 224 companies, and 92 non-profits and advocacy groups. But the U.S., Russia, and China declined, ZDNet notes.
Booted from social media: In a three-week period, Chinese censors have deleted nearly 10,000 social media accounts operated by the country’s residents, reports the South China Morning Post via Yahoo News. Accounts shut down include those of a talk show celebrity and an entertainment blogger. The Continue reading
Tools: MacOS Mojave Dark Mode with Safari in Reader mode is blissful
I don’t always work in Dark Mode on Mojave but I’m is liking a lot more than I expected. I guess I’m using it about 70% of the time. In particular, I use the Reader feature from Safari to block out the distractions and other bits of branding ‘chrome’ that make it difficult to read. […]
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6 Tech Trends for the Enterprise in 2019
Look for new technologies to emerge - and for emerging technologies to become the norm - in the new year.
Bitcoins Will Buy BGP Security? Come On…
Here’s another interesting talk from RIPE77: Routing Attacks in Cryptocurrencies explaining how BGP hijacks can impact cryptocurrencies.
TL&DR: Bitcoin is not nearly decentralized enough to be resistant to simple and relatively easy BGP manipulations.
Read more ...JT65 with SDR
JT65 is a slow protocol for propagation reports. In short it takes 60 seconds to send 13 characters. Then you wait 60 seconds for a reply, and repeat.
The 60 seconds are actually 1 second silence, 46.872 second of signal, then another 12.128 seconds of silence, allowing for clock drifts and for a human to choose the reply.
The mode is this slow in order to add a lot of redundancy and to make it easier for the receiver to dig out a signal way below the noise floor. It was originally meant for making contacts by bouncing signals off the moon, which has a path loss of ~250dB. Someone even managed a JT65 moonbounce on 10 Watts using JT65 with gear you and I could buy/build!. That’s the power of a low energy light bulb!
I wanted to do propagation experiments with SDR, with low power in various frequency bands, but couldn’t find a GNURadio module for JT65. So I made one.
The JT65 specification is very well written, except for the parts it says “the code is the specification”. Which would normally be fine, but the code is in Fortran and Fortran is terrible.
JT65A is Continue reading
Cloudflare’s Response to a Privacy Framework
Why We Weighed In on US Privacy Efforts
Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a better internet, and privacy has to be at the heart of that effort. That’s why we submitted comments last week on the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)’s request for comment on its proposed approach to advance consumer privacy.
We think it is important for Internet infrastructure companies like us to be a part of the conversation about the future of internet privacy. We want to advocate for an internet that remains accessible to all, while becoming more secure and protective of privacy.
What is NTIA and what is it trying to do?
In 2018, we’ve seen high profile data breaches and data misuse, Europe’s sweeping data protection law – the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – come into effect, and California pass its own comprehensive Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). All of this has captured the attention of Washington, D.C. lawmakers and regulators.
On September 25, 2018, NTIA began a process to solicit feedback from stakeholders on a proposed approach to consumer data privacy. NTIA is the Executive Branch agency in the Department of Commerce that is principally Continue reading