eBrief: The Pros & Cons of OpenStack
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The Future of Online Privacy and Personal Data Protection in Africa
African experts are gathered for two days (19-20 February 2018) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to contribute to the development of the African Privacy and Personal Data Protection Guidelines. The meeting, facilitated by the African Union Commission (AUC) and supported by Internet Society, explored the future of privacy and data protection and provided some practical suggestions that African states can consider in implementing the Malabo convention provisions related to online privacy. The guidelines are aimed at empowering citizens, as well as establishing legal certainty for stakeholders through clear and uniform personal data protection rules for the region.
The expert meeting comes amidst growing concern across the world on the need to prepare for the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will be enforced on 25 May 2018. The expert meeting is rather focused on creating general principles for African member states in developing good practices now and in the future. The project, a partnership of the AUC and the Internet Society, comes as a follow up to the recommendations of the Africa Infrastructure Security Guidelines, developed in 2017 to assist speed up their adoption and subsequent ratification of the Malabo Convention.
Both the Heads of States Summit in January Continue reading
Report: Distributed IoT Security and Standards Workshop at NDSS 2018
Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium is in full swing for its 25th anniversary year. As usual the NDSS program includes a really impressive array of great content on a wide range of topics. Prior to the main event there were four one-day workshops on themes related to the topic of NDSS: Binary Analysis Research, DNS Privacy, Usable Security, and the workshop I’d like to delve into here, Distributed IoT Security and Standards (DISS).
The DISS workshop received 29 submissions and accepted 12 papers. In an interesting twist on the usual scientific workshop format, the presented papers were all still in draft form and will now be revised based on the Q&A and offline discussions that took place as a result of the workshop. Revised papers will be published by the Internet Society in due course.
Introducing proceedings, co-chair Dirk Kutscher explained that it has become evident that the success of the Internet of Things (IoT) depends on sound and usable security and privacy. Device constraints, intermittent network connectivity, the scale of deployments, economic issues all combine to create an interesting and challenging environment for the research community to address.
A decentralised approach to IoT security Continue reading
WiFi Design: Practical Shortcuts
If you are faced with a tight budget or other constraints, you can still deploy a WLAN that meets most business requirements.
We Do Magic Crypto with No Impact and No Performance Loss
Not surprisingly, every now and then I get a comment from a pushy $vendor rep who fails to mention that he works for a vendor, or that he happens to be their VP of Marketing. Here’s a gem I got late last year (no, I did not allow that comment to be published):
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Busy Week for MANRS, Routing Security, and More at APRICOT 2018
APRICOT 2018 is underway in in Kathmandu, Nepal, and as usual the Internet Society is an active participant in many areas of Asia Pacific’s largest international Internet conference. The workshops are taking place this week, with the conference happening next week. Here are some of the conference activities where we’ll be.
Routing Security BoF
On Sunday, 25 February, from 18:00 to 19:00 (UTC +05:45), Aftab Siddiqui and Andrei Robachevsky will moderate a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session on routing security. From the abstract, the session will provide a space where “…operators can share their approach in securing their own infrastructure and keeping the internet routing table clean as well. Also, this will provide a platform to review and highlight various BCOP documents to address routing security.” The Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative is a key piece of the routing security puzzle.
Tech Girls Social
On Monday, 26 February, from 13:00 to 14:00 (UTC +05:45), Salam Yamout will be speaking at the Tech Girls Social. This session provides a space for APRICOT participants to talk and network in an open, friendly environment. The event is open to ANYONE who is interested and is not restricted to Continue reading
Understanding IPv6: A Sniffer Full Of 3s (Part 3 of 7)
“What the heck?” Yup, that pretty much summed up my confusion the first time I saw it. A sniffer trace full of threes.
The first thing it reminded me of was my days with Token Ring and locally administered addresses (LAAs). This was for two reasons:
- I could only see these MAC addresses being used as destination MACs, not as source MACs. This was the same with my experience with LAAs in token ring
- The MAC addresses seemed so pretty and clean, like the Token Ring LAA typically used for a 3745 IBM front-end process — 4000.3745.0001. Just look at them. Four threes, followed by a bunch of zeros, and then just one little number.
Help from Wireshark
I hope you are familiar with Wireshark; I use it all the time. It shows “reality” on the wire, which is crucial if you are a network detective trying to solve a whodunit.
If you are familiar with Wireshark then you might know that I can configure how the MAC addresses are displayed in the columns via the Wireshark preferences. As you can see below, I have set the preferences to not resolve the MAC addresses for me, Continue reading