Telecom Industry Takes the Workforce Challenge to Staff Internet-for-All Broadband Rollout
Demand for skilled staff is sky high, but not supply, for the largest-ever U.S. infrastructure effort. Associations, carriers, and vendors look to fill the staffing gap as spending on fiber broadband climbs.Hedge 136: The IPv6 ULA Mess
IPv6’s designers built the concept of Unique Local Addresses, or ULAs, into the addressing architecture to make network address translation unnecessary for IPv6 deployments. As with many other plans of mice and men, however, the unintended consequences of what is a good idea tend to get in the way. Nick Buraglio joing Eyvonne Sharp, Tom Ammon, and Russ White to discuss the many problems of IPv6 ULA, why it isn’t practical in most network deployments, and the larger question of how standards bodies sometimes fail to consider the unintended consequences of a good idea.
Day Two Cloud 153: IaC With GPPL Or DSL? IDK
On Day Two Cloud we’ve had a lot of conversations about using infrastructure as code. We’ve looked at solutions like Ansible, Terraform, the AWS CDK, and Pulumi. Which begs the question, which IaC solution should you learn? A Domain Specific Language (DSL)? A General Purpose Programming Language (GPPL)? Something else? We discuss.Internet Explorer, we hardly knew ye
On May 19, 2021, a Microsoft blog post announced that “The future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge” and that “the Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired and go out of support on June 15, 2022, for certain versions of Windows 10.” According to an associated FAQ page, those “certain versions” include Windows 10 client SKUs and Windows 10 IoT. According to data from Statcounter, Windows 10 currently accounts for over 70% of desktop Windows market share on a global basis, so this “retirement” impacts a significant number of Windows systems around the world.
As the retirement date for Internet Explorer 11 has recently passed, we wanted to explore several related usage trends:
- Is there a visible indication that use is declining in preparation for its retirement?
- Where is Internet Explorer 11 still in the heaviest use?
- How does the use of Internet Explorer 11 compare to previous versions?
- How much Internet Explorer traffic is “likely human” vs. “likely automated”?
- How do Internet Explorer usage patterns compare with those of Microsoft Edge, its replacement?
The long goodbye
Publicly released in January 2020, and automatically rolled out to Windows users starting Continue reading
Live-patching security vulnerabilities inside the Linux kernel with eBPF Linux Security Module
Linux Security Modules (LSM) is a hook-based framework for implementing security policies and Mandatory Access Control in the Linux kernel. Until recently users looking to implement a security policy had just two options. Configure an existing LSM module such as AppArmor or SELinux, or write a custom kernel module.
Linux 5.7 introduced a third way: LSM extended Berkeley Packet Filters (eBPF) (LSM BPF for short). LSM BPF allows developers to write granular policies without configuration or loading a kernel module. LSM BPF programs are verified on load, and then executed when an LSM hook is reached in a call path.
Let’s solve a real-world problem
Modern operating systems provide facilities allowing "partitioning" of kernel resources. For example FreeBSD has "jails", Solaris has "zones". Linux is different - it provides a set of seemingly independent facilities each allowing isolation of a specific resource. These are called "namespaces" and have been growing in the kernel for years. They are the base of popular tools like Docker, lxc or firejail. Many of the namespaces are uncontroversial, like the UTS namespace which allows the host system to hide its hostname and time. Others are complex but straightforward - NET and NS (mount) namespaces Continue reading
Tigera has been awarded Microsoft’s 2022 Partner of the Year award for OSS on Azure
We are proud to announce that we have won the 2022 Microsoft OSS on Azure Partner of the Year award! The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered outstanding Microsoft-based applications, services, and devices during the past year. Awards were classified in various categories, with honorees chosen from a set of more than 3,900 submitted nominations from more than 100 countries worldwide. Tigera was recognized for providing outstanding solutions and services for open source on Azure.
Since June 2021, Tigera and Microsoft Azure together provide users with active build, deploy, and runtime security with full-stack observability for securing, monitoring, and troubleshooting containers on Azure and AKS. Tigera works closely with Microsoft to offer networking, security, and observability for containerized workloads running in Microsoft Azure.
We are very proud to be recognized as Microsoft’s Partner of the Year for OSS on Azure as it re-affirms the reach and pervasiveness of Tigera’s Calico Open Source solution for container networking and security on Azure and AKS. As enterprises standardize across Microsoft Azure, customers require a resource-efficient and scalable networking and security solution that protects the workloads in a hybrid environment extending from the cloud (Azure and Continue reading
5G Private Networks Offer Enterprise an Alternative to Wi-Fi
For years, cellular networks and Wi-Fi appeared settled into their areas of dominance. But in some enterprise use cases, upgrades to cellular technology have handed companies unprecedented choice.Hertzbleed explained
You may have heard a bit about the Hertzbleed attack that was recently disclosed. Fortunately, one of the student researchers who was part of the team that discovered this vulnerability and developed the attack is spending this summer with Cloudflare Research and can help us understand it better.
The first thing to note is that Hertzbleed is a new type of side-channel attack that relies on changes in CPU frequency. Hertzbleed is a real, and practical, threat to the security of cryptographic software.
Should I be worried?
From the Hertzbleed website,
“If you are an ordinary user and not a cryptography engineer, probably not: you don’t need to apply a patch or change any configurations right now. If you are a cryptography engineer, read on. Also, if you are running a SIKE decapsulation server, make sure to deploy the mitigation described below.”
Notice: As of today, there is no known attack that uses Hertzbleed to target conventional and standardized cryptography, such as the encryption used in Cloudflare products and services. Having said that, let’s get into the details of processor frequency scaling to understand the core of this vulnerability.
In short, the Hertzbleed attack shows that, under certain Continue reading
HS027 Broadcom and VMware – What’s Gonna Happen?
Cold takes on the Broadcom/VMware acquisition. We consider Broadcom's stated goal to increase VMW profit margin from 35% to 65% and what this will mean to customer experience.
HS027 Broadcom and VMware – What’s Gonna Happen?
Cold takes on the Broadcom/VMware acquisition. We consider Broadcom's stated goal to increase VMW profit margin from 35% to 65% and what this will mean to customer experience.
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Tech Bytes: Maximize Network Data With Nokia’s Streaming Telemetry (Sponsored)
On today's Tech Bytes podcast we discuss the value of streaming telemetry in a modern network with sponsor Nokia. Nokia's SR-Linux network OS enables streaming telemetry, so let's dive into the value of telemetry, how the OS supports it, and options for consuming the telemetry to do useful things with it.
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Tech Bytes: Maximize Network Data With Nokia’s Streaming Telemetry (Sponsored)
On today's Tech Bytes podcast we discuss the value of streaming telemetry in a modern network with sponsor Nokia. Nokia's SR-Linux network OS enables streaming telemetry, so let's dive into the value of telemetry, how the OS supports it, and options for consuming the telemetry to do useful things with it.Threat Hunting: From Passive to Active Information Security
An important role of threat hunting is to help detect advanced persistent threats (APTs). The success of a threat hunting program is based on the availability of rich data from the IT environment.Ansible For Network Automation Lesson 3: Ansible Modules Overview – Video
In lesson 3 of this course about Ansible for network automation, Josh VanDeraa covers the lab environment used in this course, reviews the Ansible Network Modules documentation page, and look at the parameters of an Ansible module to know what’s required and what the response will be. Josh has created a GitHub repo to store […]
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