Pi-Hole for home DNS
Pi-hole? Huh? DNS? What I am going on about now you may ask. Pi-hole is billed as a “Network-wide Ad …
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Announcing the 2020 U.S. Presidential Campaign Audit
Today, the Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance released a new report, the “2020 U.S. Presidential Campaign Audit,” analyzing the 23 top current presidential campaigns and their commitment to email/domain protection, website security, and responsible privacy practices. OTA evaluated the campaigns using the same methodology we used to assess nearly 1,200 organizations in the main Online Trust Audit released in April.
An alarming 70% of the campaign websites reviewed in the audit failed to meet OTA’s privacy and security standards, potentially exposing visitors to unnecessary risks. Only seven (30%) of the analyzed campaigns made the Honor Roll, a designation recognizing campaigns that displayed a commitment to using best practices to safeguard visitor information. The 2020 campaigns, taken together as a sector, lagged behind the Honor Roll average of all other sectors (70%) in the 2018 Online Trust Audit, and were far short of the Honor Roll achievement of 91% by U.S. federal government organizations.
To qualify for the Honor Roll, campaigns must have an overall score of 80% or higher, with no failure in any of the three categories examined. The campaigns who made the Honor Roll are:
- Pete Buttigieg
- Kamala Harris
- Amy Klobuchar
- Beto O’Rourke
- Bernie Continue reading
IBM Security, McAfee Spearhead Open Cybersecurity Alliance
The new group targets interoperable security technologies. IBM Security and McAfee contributed the...
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Talk Transcript: How Cloudflare Thinks About Security
This is the text I used for a talk at artificial intelligence powered translation platform, Unbabel, in Lisbon on September 25, 2019.
Bom dia. Eu sou John Graham-Cumming o CTO do Cloudflare. E agora eu vou falar em inglês.
Thanks for inviting me to talk about Cloudflare and how we think about security. I’m about to move to Portugal permanently so I hope I’ll be able to do this talk in Portuguese in a few months.
I know that most of you don’t have English as a first language so I’m going to speak a little more deliberately than usual. And I’ll make the text of this talk available for you to read.
But there are no slides today.
I’m going to talk about how Cloudflare thinks about internal security, how we protect ourselves and how we secure our day to day work. This isn’t a talk about Cloudflare’s products.
Culture
Let’s begin with culture.
Many companies have culture statements. I think almost 100% of these are pure nonsense. Culture is how you act every day, not words written in the wall.
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The Cost of Disruptiveness and Guerrilla Marketing
A Docker networking rant coming from my good friend Marko Milivojević triggered a severe case of Deja-Moo, resulting in a flood of unpleasant memories caused by too-successful “disruptive” IT vendors.
Before moving on, please note that the following observations were made from my outsider perspective. If I got something badly wrong, please correct me in a comment.
Imagine you’re working for a startup creating a cool new product in the IT infrastructure space (if you have an oversized ego you would call yourself “disruptive thought leader” on your LinkedIn profile) but nobody is taking you seriously. How about some guerrilla warfare: advertising your product to people who hate the IT operations (today we’d call that Shadow IT).
Read more ...MACsec over WAN
MACsec is an interesting alternative to existing tunneling solutions, that protects Layer 2 by performing integrity, origin authentication and, optionally, encryption. Normal use-case is to use MACsec between hosts and access switches, between two hosts or between two switches. This article is a leftover from MACsec on Linux that I first tested in 2016 when support for MACsec was just included in the kernel. I will describe how MACsec is used together with a Layer 2 GRE tunnel to protect the traffic between two remote sites, over WAN or Internet, like a site-to-site VPN at Layer 2.
Money Moves: September 2019
Datadog Barks Back to Cisco’s $7B Offer, Fetches $648M in IPO: GitLab Inhales $268M Series E,...
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The Week in Internet News: Governments Pressure Facebook to Halt Encryption Plans
Anti-encryption demands: Government officials from the U.S., U.K., and Australia have asked Facebook to put a hold on its plans to expand encryption on services like Messenger, CNet reports. “We are writing to request that Facebook does not proceed with its plan to implement end-to-end encryption across its messaging services without ensuring that there is no reduction to user safety and without including a means for lawful access to the content of communications to protect our citizens,” says a letter signed by U.S. Attorney General William Barr and other officials.
This law is not fake: A new fake news law in Singapore has taken effect, SPDP Radio says. The law includes penalties of up to US $60,000 and 10 years in prison for people found guilty of spreading what the government considers to be fake news. Web sites could face fines of more than $720,000 for not taking down so-called fake news after being ordered to do so. Free speech advocates have major problems with the law, as you might expect.
The lines are cut: Internet access in most of Iraq was shut down after violent protest in the country, CNet says. Some people were Continue reading
ONUG, MEF Want to Clarify SD-WAN Decisions
The partnership is focused on ensuring that SD-WAN vendors are developing products that meet the...
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Tech Bytes: MidSouth Bank Invests In Network Performance, Visibility With Silver Peak SD-WAN (Sponsored)
On today's sponsored Tech Bytes episode we talk with MidSouth Bank CIO Daniel Hereford about how he's using SD-WAN from Silver Peak to support the bank's transformation to a hybrid cloud model, while also improving network visibility and performance for mission-critical applications.Tech Bytes: MidSouth Bank Invests In Network Performance, Visibility With Silver Peak SD-WAN (Sponsored)
On today's sponsored Tech Bytes episode we talk with MidSouth Bank CIO Daniel Hereford about how he's using SD-WAN from Silver Peak to support the bank's transformation to a hybrid cloud model, while also improving network visibility and performance for mission-critical applications.
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Vodafone Embraces OpenRAN on Home Turf
Vodafone, an early proponent of the Telecom Infra Project’s OpenRAN initiative, says it started...
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Transform Your Career: Attend Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference Europe
Register now for Attend Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference Europe held October 28 - 30,...
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Verizon and NEC Infuse AI Into Deployed Fiber
The technology cocktail can support smart city initiatives without having to rip up streets to...
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Network Break 255: Adtran Gets Into SD-WAN; Google Preps Chrome To Block HTTP Mixed With HTTPS
Today's Network Break analyzes Adtran's entry into the SD-WAN market, a new IBN product from Lumina Networks, the latest software upgrade from NTOP, Google's timeline for blocking HTTP elements in HTTPS sessions in Chrome, plus a couple of detailed follow-ups, and a Tech Bytes show.
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Network Break 255: Adtran Gets Into SD-WAN; Google Preps Chrome To Block HTTP Mixed With HTTPS
Today's Network Break analyzes Adtran's entry into the SD-WAN market, a new IBN product from Lumina Networks, the latest software upgrade from NTOP, Google's timeline for blocking HTTP elements in HTTPS sessions in Chrome, plus a couple of detailed follow-ups, and a Tech Bytes show.Kill the restructure | The IT Skeptic
Don't underestimate engineers. They are smarter than people comprehend.
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Optimizing Environment Setup in Ansible Playbooks
Have you ever seen an Ansible playbook where 90% of the code prepares the environment, and then all the work is done in a few template and assemble modules? Here’s an alternative way of getting that done. Is it better? You tell me ;)
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