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Your Internet Really Is Down

While internet connectivity as a whole is resilient, the fabric that our users and applications traverse is susceptible to outages.

SDN as an Abstraction Layer

During the Introduction to SDN webinar I covered numerous potential definitions:

It’s the separation of control and data plane;
It’s software-based packet forwarding;
It’s open networking and whitebox switching;
It’s network programmability and device APIs.

I find all of these definitions too narrow or even misleading. However, the “SDN is a layer of abstraction” one is not too bad (see also RFC 1925 section 2.6a).

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Twitter locks some accounts after passwords exposed

Twitter said it had locked down and called for a password reset of some accounts after an unconfirmed claim of a leak of nearly 33 million usernames and passwords to the social network.The company said the information was not obtained from a hack of its servers, and speculated that the information may have been gathered from other recent breaches, malware on victim machines that are stealing passwords for all sites, or a combination of both.“In each of the recent password disclosures, we cross-checked the data with our records. As a result, a number of Twitter accounts were identified for extra protection. Accounts with direct password exposure were locked and require a password reset by the account owner,” Twitter’s Trust & Information Security Officer, Michael Coates said in a blog post on Friday. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Twitter locks some accounts after passwords exposed

New Mozilla fund will pay for security audits of open-source code

A new Mozilla fund, called Secure Open Source, aims to provide security audits of open-source code, following the discovery of critical security bugs like Heartbleed and Shellshock in key pieces of the software.Mozilla has set up a US$500,000 initial fund that will be used for paying professional security firms to audit project code. The foundation will also work with the people maintaining the project to support and implement fixes and manage disclosures, while also paying for the verification of the remediation to ensure that identified bugs have been fixed.The initial fund will cover audits of some widely-used open source libraries and programs. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New Mozilla fund will pay for security audits of open-source code

Perth, Australia: 80th Data Center

alt CloudFlare is excited to announce the launch of our newest data center in Perth, Australia. This expands the breadth of our global network to span 80 unique cities across 41 countries, and is our fourth data center in the Oceania region, joining existing data centers in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland.

Western Australia

Perth is in a fascinating location. Home to sunny beaches and the highest number of self-made millionaires in the world, it is actually geographically closer to Singapore than to Sydney (though closer to Sydney in a “networking” sense, as determined by BGP routing).

Visitors to millions of websites across Western Australia served locally can now experience a faster and safer Internet - and ISPs can reach us at the Western Australia Internet Exchange (WA-IX), one of 119 internet exchanges that we openly peer at.

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Latency in milliseconds from end user (Perth) to CloudFlare. Source: Cedexis

Missing letters?

Helping build CloudFlare’s network provides our team members with the opportunity to not just speed up the Internet, but also improve our sense of geography. Visitors to our offices in San Francisco, London and Singapore can get a sneak peek at our fast-changing map (with live and upcoming dots). Perth Continue reading

Security Startup Infocyte Widens Its Threat Hunting Scope

Former Air Force officers now hunt for malware.

CoreOS Attacks the Problem of Container Storage

Torus almost rhymes with CoreOS...

Woman uses ‘Hey Siri’ feature to call an ambulance and help save her child’s life

When Apple released the iPhone 6s, it included a great new Siri feature which enables users to activate the intelligent assistant via voice. Dubbed 'Hey Siri', the feature is particularly convenient because the iPhone 6s' M9 motion coprocessor is 'always listening' and thereby lets users use 'Hey Siri' even when the device isn't connected to a power source.Recently, Stacey Gleeson of Australia used the 'Hey Siri' feature to successfully call an ambulance while she was tending to her daughter Giana who had stopped breathing."I picked her up and sat down with her on the floor,” Gleeson said in an interview. “And as I checked her airways, I looked over and remembered my phone.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Highly Rated, Dramatically Discounted Adapters – Deal Alert

Logitech Bluetooth Audio Adapter for Bluetooth StreamingTake just about any traditional set of speakers and make them Bluetooth enabled for streaming audio wirelessly from your favorite device. Currently discounted 30% to $28.HDMI Female to Female High Speed Gold Plated AdapterThis straightforward adapter couples two HDMI cables together for extended length. Currently discounted 46% to $6 for a pack of two.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

HPE & GE Form an IoT Partnership

IoT partnerships between hardware and software companies are growing.

Mea culpa: Docker’s security tool and Black Duck’s Security Checker are NOT the same

It pays to look deeply, and I didn’t. I apologize. Some days, I make mistakes. Further education says Black Duck Software’s Security Checker and the Docker Cloud Security Scanning tool aren’t the same thing. Both check vulnerabilities with the CVE database—in a quest to match inflated Docker container problems—and rate containers based on the severity of vulnerabilities and the number found.These two tools (and there are others) are designed to load and parse Docker images and run a manifest against CVEs. Here’s where things largely diverge. Note also that there are other container security tools available, and I’ll get to them in a subsequent blog post.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

In IoT’s early days, challenges, opportunities revealed

In 2010, two entrepreneurs in Boston came up with the idea of turning shipping containers into miniature plantations, and Freight Farms was born.The company’s Leafy Green Machines, outfitted with LED lights and humidity-controlled ventilation systems, provide an ideal growing climate for up to 500 heads of lettuce per week, not to mention other crops such as herbs and micro-greens.+MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: The Most Powerful Internet of Things Companies +Since day one, the containers have been connected to the Internet so they can be monitored and managed remotely. “We’re able to improve the value of the container without customers even knowing it,” says Kyle Seaman, director of farm technology. Freight Farms remotely monitors crop production for each of its roughly 80 farms. Software updates are pushed to the Leafy Green Machines to more efficiently manage the crops, such as by adjusting temperature, humidity and lighting.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: The age of the GPU

Having made the improbable jump from the game console to the supercomputer, GPUs are now invading the datacenter. This movement is led by Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Tesla, Baidu and others who have quietly but rapidly shifted their hardware philosophy over the past twelve months. Each of these companies have significantly upgraded their investment in GPU hardware and in doing so have put legacy CPU infrastructure on notice. The Next Platform

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This tool taps machine learning to take the guesswork out of content marketing

It's every marketer's goal to reach customers in the right place, at the right time, and with the right message, but the online world doesn't make that easy. A new tool announced Thursday uses machine learning to help.Called Lithium Reach, it aims to eliminate some of the guesswork inherent in marketers' jobs by recommending the best social content and the best time to publish it.The average consumer brand today has 55 social media accounts and nearly 45 employees managing them, according to Lithium Technologies, which acquired social-influence ranking site Klout back in 2014. The new Reach tool puts Klout's machine-learning algorithms to work in the hopes of making that process easier.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Digital mesh: Continuous, hyper-connectivity for everyone

Hyper-connectivity is the way of the future. The world is going to become more electronic, and CEOs are banking on digital technology to grow their revenue.To make that a reality, IT services need to be involved, said Helen Huntley, a Gartner research vice president, speaking at Gartner’s Tech Growth and Innovation Conference in Los Angeles earlier this week.It calls for having a kind of device or digital mesh that produces hyper-connectivity for everyone. That, coupled with vast swaths of data and smart machines, will be a principal “strategic technology change” we’ll see, she said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

My Cisco Live 2016 Schedule

Ever since my blog, CiscoLive 2016: ‘Summer Camp for Geeks’, I’ve been getting questions about what my personal CLUS schedule typically looks like for the week. CiscoLive 2016 will be my 11th CiscoLive US (“#CLUS”) and my 13th CiscoLive in general.

It is my favorite work week of the ENTIRE year. And I look forward to it a great deal. At the same time…. it is not even one full week and one can miss so much they wished they hadn’t missed because the time flies by so quickly. And yes… I have learned this the hard way.

So… first things first – I came up with the list of things that are prioritizes to me for the week.

All that said…… Here ya go. My CiscoLive (CLUS) schedule for the week.

Teach
Recharge
Learn
Play and Have Fun

Who speaks for multi-vendor environments?

In 1980, the final episode of one my favorite TV shows, Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, aired. In “Who Speaks for Earth?” Sagan summarized the mess that has become humanity and the impending doom that will befall Earth if things do not change. The episode also provides alternatives to that behavior and offers a way to save Earth but begs the big question of who actually speaks for Earth to enable the behavior change.This is not unlike what’s happening in the data center today. It’s been well documented on this site and others that the data center is currently a mess. Data centers are built on repeatable building blocks, but configuration is still done manually. In Cosmos, Sagan gave the planet only a minuscule percentage chance of surviving if humans didn’t change their ways. Similarly, organizations must change the way they operate data centers if they are to make it in an increasingly digital world where speed is everything. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Who speaks for multi-vendor environments?

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