I have the honor of having my blog selected as a finalist in the 2021 IT Blog Awards, hosted by Cisco. It is a privilege and a great joy for me to have my blog selected for the fourth consecutive year! Congratulations also to all of the other finalists, who all produce great and valuable content! Click here to vote and choose the winner of the 2021 IT Blog Awards. If you want to vote for my blog, you can find it under: “Let’s talk about Network“, thank you in advance…
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Another week, another Netsim-Tools release 😩 One would think that a “reduced scope of activities” and Irena leaving would slow things down, but…The “s” (exponential) in the title reflects my suspicion that Ivan has somehow managed to clone himself, or perhaps we are seeing the outputs of an as-yet unnamed team of collaborators publishing in his name. Either way, things are crazy hot and changing on a daily basis, the “bleeding edge” of network automation indeed.
This morning Ivan published a blog post about OSPF over unnumbered interfaces. The topology for that article can be found here; observant readers will quickly notice a problem with it, but we can easily fix that:
netlab up -d sros -p clab
That is, bring up the same topology, but use Nokia SR-OS devices and Containerlab instead of the defaults.
As Ivan explains in his article, OSPF doesn’t work over unnumbered multi-access links, and so Netsim-Tools complains and stops you from wasting more time.
After the nodes boot (and adding support for OVS bridges), we Continue reading
Today on the Tech Byte podcast we discuss redefining networks and policy in today’s hybrid world–that is, a network that needs to be available anywhere, anytime, anyhow, and any way. Aruba is our sponsor and we’re joined by James Robertson, CTO Advisor and Technology Strategist in the Office of the CTO.
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Take a Network Break! This week we examine Oracle's purchase of network assurance vendor Federos, discuss why Cisco has added a service mesh manager to its Intersight Kubernetes service, explore why some users are frustrated with a crypto-miner in NortonLifelock's anti-virus software, and cover more tech news.
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The first half of 2021 witnessed massive ransomware and ransom DDoS attack campaigns that interrupted aspects of critical infrastructure around the world (including one of the largest petroleum pipeline system operators in the US) and a vulnerability in IT management software that targeted schools, public sector, travel organizations, and credit unions, to name a few.
The second half of the year recorded a growing swarm of one of the most powerful botnets deployed (Meris) and record-breaking HTTP DDoS attacks and network-layer attacks observed over the Cloudflare network. This besides the Log4j2 vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) discovered in December that allows an attacker to execute code on a remote server — arguably one of the most severe vulnerabilities on the Internet since both Heartbleed and Shellshock.
Prominent attacks such as the ones listed above are but a few examples that demonstrate a trend of intensifying cyber-insecurity that affected everyone, from tech firms and government organizations to wineries and meat processing plants.
Here are some DDoS attack trends and highlights from 2021 and Q4 ‘21 specifically:
In this post, we will look at a peculiar case of a SGACL not denying traffic between two hosts in a SD-Access fabric.