Best Deals of the Week, September 26th – September 30th – Deal Alert

Best Deals of the Week, September 26th - September 30th - Deal AlertCheck out this roundup of the best deals on gadgets, gear and other cool stuff we have found this week, the week of September 26th. All items are highly rated, and dramatically discounted.Discounts on New Amazon Echo Dot (2nd Gen) BundlesEcho Dot is a hands-free, voice-controlled device that uses Alexa to play & control music (either on its own, or through a connected speaker/receiver), control smart home devices, provide information, read the news, set alarms, and more. Right now Amazon is discounting 3 bundles featuring an all new Echo Dot:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

How to wrangle meaning from Internet of Things data

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach.The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to produce troves of valuable, fast moving, real-time data, offering insights that can change the way we engage with everyday objects and technologies, amplify our business acumen, and improve the efficiencies of the machines, large and small, wearable and walkable, that run our world.But without careful, holistic forethought about how to manage a variety of data sources and types, businesses will not only miss out on critical insights, but fall behind the status quo. Here’s how to get prepared to wrangle and extract meaning from all of the data that’s headed your way:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

How to wrangle meaning from Internet of Things data

We don’t need more InfoSec analysts: We need analysts to train AI infrastructures to detect attacks

We don’t need more InfoSec analysts: We need analysts to train AI infrastructures to detect attacks

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach.Everyone says there is an information security talent gap. In fact, some sources say the demand for security professionals exceeds the supply by a million jobs. Their argument is basically this: attacks are not being detected quickly or often enough, and the tools are generating more alerts than can be investigated, so we need more people to investigate those alarms.Makes sense, right?Wrong.We believe that, even if companies aroaund the world miraculously hired a million qualified InfoSec professionals tomorrow there would be no change in detection effectiveness and we would still have a “talent gap.” The problem isn’t a people issue so much as it is an InfoSec infrastructure issue.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

We don’t need more InfoSec analysts: We need analysts to train AI infrastructures to detect attacks

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach.Everyone says there is an information security talent gap. In fact, some sources say the demand for security professionals exceeds the supply by a million jobs. Their argument is basically this: attacks are not being detected quickly or often enough, and the tools are generating more alerts than can be investigated, so we need more people to investigate those alarms.Makes sense, right?Wrong.We believe that, even if companies aroaund the world miraculously hired a million qualified InfoSec professionals tomorrow there would be no change in detection effectiveness and we would still have a “talent gap.” The problem isn’t a people issue so much as it is an InfoSec infrastructure issue.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

By 2020, your Wi-Fi-connected car will pay for parking, gas

Wi-Fi communications in vehicles, whether from the factory or in aftermarket devices, will increase from 6.9 million per year in 2015 to 61 million per year in 2020 -- and this will usher in a new era of consumer services and applications, according to a new report from Gartner.Over the next four years, the total number of connected cars and trucks will reach 220 million, a number that will drive a huge uptick in the delivery of digital content, such as streaming music and video, navigation and location-based services.Connected vehicles increasingly will be able to direct drivers to, and pay for, parking spaces, fuel and other services, and the technology will eventually enable increased levels of automated driving, Gartner's report stated.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Traffic Control: Live Demo

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Cloudflare helps customers control their own traffic at the edge. One of two products that we introduced to empower customers to do so is Cloudflare Traffic Control.

Traffic Control allows a customer to rate limit, shape or block traffic based on the rate of requests per client IP address, cookie, authentication token, or other attributes of the request. Traffic can be controlled on a per-URI (with wildcards for greater flexibility) basis giving pinpoint control over a website, application, or API.

Cloudflare has been dogfooding Traffic Control to add more granular controls against Layer 7 DOS and brute-force attacks. For example, we've experienced attacks on cloudflare.com from more than 4,000 IP addresses sending 600,000+ requests in 5 minutes to the same URL but with random parameters. These types of attacks send large volumes of HTTP requests intended to bring down our site or to crack login passwords.

Traffic Control protects websites and APIs from similar types of bad traffic. By leveraging our massive network, we are able to process and enforce rate limiting near the client, shielding the customer's application from unnecessary load.

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Worth Reading: What is segment routing?

Do you remember source routing, used in token ring bridging networks? If you’re relatively new to networking, you may not know about it. In source routing, the hosts determine the path to take through the network and build a frame header that specifies the forwarding nodes that the frame should pass through as it goes from source to destination. The token ring implementation typically used special frames called explorer packets to discover the set of paths from source to destination. Too many explorer packets could cause overloading problems with the network nodes (source route bridges) and with the hosts that had to process them, much like a broadcast storm in Ethernet networks. —Netcraftsmen

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Android malware that can infiltrate corporate networks is spreading

An Android malware is spreading across app stores, including Google Play, and has the capability of stealing sensitive files from corporate networks.DressCode, a family of Android malware, has been found circulating in at least 3,000 Trojanized apps, security firm Trend Micro said on Friday.DressCode hides itself inside games, user interface themes, and phone optimization boosters. It can also be difficult to detect because the malicious coding only makes up a small portion of the overall app.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Show 308: Moving To The Cloud (And Back)

Todays free-ranging episode discusses why organizations move to the cloud, what they gain & what they lose. They also look at how network management and monitoring is changing, and the relentless move to open networking. The post Show 308: Moving To The Cloud (And Back) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Nutanix Shares Double in Value After IPO

IT officially has a new $2B company.

Softbank chief explains why Steve Jobs inspired the ARM purchase

By any measure, Softbank is one massive conglomerate. It owns all or a chunk of Sprint, Vodaphone, ARM Holdings and Alibaba Group, among its many investments. The ARM deal was perhaps the oddest, and most expensive at $32 billion. The claim at the time of the purchase was it would give Softbank a window into the Internet of Things (IoT). But according to Softbank’s CEO, the reasoning goes back much further.Founder and CEO Masayoshi Son told Nikkei Asian Review that he'd had his eye on ARM for more than a decade, and it was due to a meeting with the late Steve Jobs.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Unix tips: Saving time by repeating history

Getting work done faster on the command line is one of the never changing goals of Unix sysadmins. And one way to do this is to find easy ways to reuse commands that you have entered previously – particularly if those commands are complex or tricky to remember. Some of the ways we do this include putting the commands in scripts and turning them into aliases. Another way is to reissue commands that you have entered recently by pulling them from your command history and reusing them with or without changes. The easiest and most intuitive way to reissue commands is by using the up and down arrows on your keyboard to scroll through previously entered commands. How far back you can scroll will depend on the size of your history buffer. Most people set their history buffers to hold something between 100 and 1,000 commands but some go way beyond that. Hitting the up arrow 732 times might try your patience, but there are are fortunately easy ways to get what you need without wearing out your finger tip! To make this post a little easier to follow, I'm using a modest HISTSIZE setting. You can view your Continue reading

SDxCentral Weekly News Roundup — September 30, 2016

EarthLink Holdings launched a SD-WAN service.

OpenDaylight Project Gets Its ‘Intel Inside’ Moment

Remember 2013, when so many of us doubted OpenDaylight?

You will be using mobile VR and AR in two years—even if you don’t believe it

Casual mobile virtual reality (VR) will eat the world when Google announces its Daydream VR platform with its six hardware partners in October. Within two years, millions of consumers will become accustomed to using augmented reality (AR) and VR, casually, like they use GPS and voice to text now because there will be a VR app for that—whatever that is. Extending VR into the mobile app ecosystem will produce VR use cases that haven’t dawned on the average consumer.+ Also on Network World: Google Daydream is a contrarian platform bet on mobile virtual reality +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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How Google Dealt with Pokémon GO Traffic 50 Times Beyond Expectations

Google Container Engine had to be upgraded on the fly.

Was Trump bitten by Twitter time-stamp bug that stung Alec Baldwin’s wife?

The answer is almost certainly no, but …If you’ve been following the political news today, one joyously mocked aspect of Donald Trump’s latest Twitter rant early this morning has been that one of the tweets was apparently sent at 3:20 a.m. I say apparently – despite the clearly visible 3:20 a.m. time-stamp – because Twitter time-stamps have been known to go haywire in the past, sometimes causing problems, such as when the bug made it appear that Alec Baldwin’s wife Hilaria had tweeted idle pleasantries during the June 2013 funeral of Sopranos star James Gandolfini. Hilaria had done no such thing, but erroneous reports to the contrary sparked by the bug caused her husband to blow a gasket.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here