Raúl Echeberría at Mobile World Congress Ministerial Programme
The Internet Society’s Vice President of Global Engagement Raúl Echeberría will be participating in a panel tomorrow at the Mobile World Congress Ministerial Programme on Policies to Expand Access to Mobile:
“Access to mobile services has become a key prerequisite for advancing societies where connectivity has almost become a human right. As 4G continues to be rolled out in most markets, and with 5G on the horizon, what policy levers can be pulled to extend existing and future mobile broadband services further into rural and other underserved areas?
“Adopting a balanced regulatory framework that is pro-investment and pro-innovation, will help address some of the toughest development challenges for the mobile industry. This interactive session will discuss policymakers’ key objectives for supporting mobile sector growth, and their next steps for attracting investment which deliver benefits not only for the mobile industry, but for the digitalisation of other industries.”
The panel, which takes place on Tuesday, 27 February, from 11:30-13:00 (CET), is moderated by Julian David, CEO of techUK, and includes, among others, Ebele Okobi, Facebook’s Public Policy Director, Africa; Francesca Bria, Chief Technology and Digital Innovation Officer of Barcelona City Council; and Nkateko Cornelius Nyoka, Chief Legal and Regulatory Officer of Vodacom Group Continue reading
Verizon: We Pick Robust SD-WAN Vendors as Partners
SD-WAN sales have increased Verizon's MPLS usage.
Reaction: Billing by the Hour
A very common mistake I see among engineers of all stripes is a failure to fully appreciate the value of time—both what it is worth, and how to make your time more valuable.
What I normally see is something like this—I should be making $x/hour, because I have this specific experience, or that specific skill set. This focus on hourly pay, however, is actually counter productive. For instance, I recently ran across an article in a publication for graphic designers and illustrators (a world I have followed since I lived it in many years ago)—
To begin, what does Kyle mean when he says to “bill by value” rather than billing by the hour? Once, when I went into a lawyers office, I noticed he had a sign on the wall that said, “Lawyers don’t charge by the bullet.” The point the lawyer was making Continue reading
The Elephant in the Room: Making Money from 5G
One use case mentioned was to replace WiFi with 5G and 4G LTE.
Starting as an Engineering Manager
I joined Cloudflare last week as an Engineering Manager, having previously spent 4 years working as the head of the software engineering community in the UK Government’s Digital Service (GDS). You only get one chance to be a new starter at each new place, so it’s important to make the most of the experience. Also, the job of Engineering Manager is different in every organisation, so it’s important to understand what the expectations and need for the role is in Cloudflare.
To help with this, I started by sketching out some objectives for my first week.
- Meet all my team members in a 1 to 1 meeting
- Know the skills and motivations of each team member
- Write down the expectations of my manager and team
- Write down the scope of the job
- Write a list of technologies to get an understanding of
- Be mentored by one of the team in one of these technologies
- Review what I can do to help with diversity and inclusion
- Understand the management structure - draw a diagram of it
- Spend 30 minutes with the most senior person I can to understand their aims
- Play with the product myself
Some of these are a bit Continue reading
We’ve added another new Cyber Ops course to our video library
Log into your members account or visit ine.com to check out Andrew Crouthamel’s newest Cyber Ops course; CCNA Cyber Ops Technology Course: SECOPS 210-255.
Why Study Cyber Ops?
Cisco’s CCNA Cyber Ops cetification provides individuals with the knowledge to identify and respond to security incidents. This certification provides a path to working in a security operations center and security positions. As a CCNA level certification, Cyber Ops provides introductory knowledge so one may be aware of the security landscape, understand security concepts and general networking.
About This Course
This course is taught by Andrew Crouthamel and is 1 hour and 22 minutes long. This is a CCNA level course and will cover the exam topics of the SECOPS 210-255 Exam.
What You’ll Learn
Topics covered in this course include: endpoint analysis and forensics, NetFlow and IPFIX, and the importance of data analysis. Students will also review incident response plans, various computer security teams, and compliance frameworks such as PCI, HIPAA, and SOX.
About The Instructor
Andrew is a seasoned IT engineer with over 12 years of experience. He started out in IT as an Assistant Computer Technician, blowing dust out of computers for a school district, moving up Continue reading
Verizon Will Make vRAN a Reality
The operator is working with Nokia and Intel on its vRAN 2.0 architecture.
Network Break 173: Intel Hit By Lawsuits; Oracle Plugs Portfolio Gap
Today's Network Break examines the lawsuit tsunami swamping Intel, new security disclosure guidance from the SEC, an Oracle security acquisition & more tech news. Our guest is Ed Horley. The post Network Break 173: Intel Hit By Lawsuits; Oracle Plugs Portfolio Gap appeared first on Packet Pushers.
The Week in Internet News: Blockchain Fights Slavery in the Seafood Industry
Blockchain vs. slavery: Provenance, a London NGO, is using Blockchain to add transparency to seafood supply chains, in an effort to reduce the practice of slavery in the seafood industry in Southeast Asia. Blockchain can create end-to-end traceability for seafood products by storing data on all kinds of transactional history. This can help NGOs track suppliers using slaves and abusive employment practices, reports Forbes.
AI joins the HR team: Artificial Intelligence may soon be assisting human resources departments, Inc. reports. Spoke, an AI startup, learns information about the deploying company and answers worker questions through a chatbot. Companies installing Spoke can program it with answers to the most-asked employee questions, but then the service can learn more about the company as time goes on. The Spoke software can also handle meeting room requests and equipment reservations, and it can prioritize IT requests.
The dark side of AI: Many AI experts are concerned about its malicious uses, including the sci-fi sounding scenarios of swarms of micro drones and autonomous weapons. Using AI to automate security tasks could also expand existing surveillance, persuasion, and deception threats, according to a new report, detailed on CNBC.com and in Motherboard.
Can SIM cards improve Continue reading
Cisco Launches Open vRAN Initiative
India’s Reliance Jio is the only carrier involved in the Cisco group.
Intel’s Latest FPGA with Integrated 58G Transceiver Targets 5G, NFV
The new technology removes bandwidth limitations for processing large volumes of data.
Using Cloudflare Workers to identify pwned passwords
Last week Troy Hunt launched his Pwned Password v2 service which has an API handled and cached by Cloudflare using a clever anonymity scheme.
The following simple code can check if a password exists in Troy's database without sending the password to Troy. The details of how it works are found in the blog post above.
use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::Simple qw/$ua get/;
$ua->agent('Cloudflare Test/0.1');
use Digest::SHA1 qw/sha1_hex/;
uc(sha1_hex($ARGV[0]))=~/^(.{5})(.+)/;
print get("https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/$1")=~/$2/?'Pwned':'Ok', "\n";
It's just as easy to implement the same check in other languages, such as JavaScript, which made me realize that I could incorporate the check into a Cloudflare Worker. With a little help from people who know JavaScript far better than me, I wrote the following Worker:
addEventListener('fetch', event => {
event.respondWith(fetchAndCheckPassword(event.request))
})
async function fetchAndCheckPassword(req) {
if (req.method == "POST") {
try {
const post = await req.formData()
const pwd = post.get('password')
const enc = new TextEncoder("utf-8").encode(pwd)
let hash = await crypto.subtle.digest("SHA-1", enc)
let hashStr = hex(hash).toUpperCase()
const prefix = hashStr.substring(0, 5)
const suffix = hashStr.substring(5)
const pwndpwds = await fetch('https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/' + prefix)
const t = Continue reading