Meraki Is Almost An Enterprise Solution
You may remember a three or so years ago when I famously declared that Meraki is not a good solution for enterprises. I know the folks at Meraki certainly haven’t. The profile for the hardware and services has slowly been rising inside of Cisco. More than just wireless with the requisite networking components, Meraki has now embraced security, SD-WAN, and even security cameras. They’ve moved into a lot of areas that customers have been asking about while also still trying to maintain the simplicity that Meraki is known for.
Having just finished up a Meraki presentation during Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe, I thought it would be a good time to take a look at the progress that Meraki has been making toward embracing their enterprise customer base. I’m not entirely convinced that they’ve made it yet, but the progress is starting to look good.
Playing for Scale
The first area where Meraki is starting to really make strides is in the scalability department. This video from Tech Field Day Extra is all about new security features in the platform, specifically with firewalls. Take a quick look:
Toward the end of the video is one of Continue reading
Daily Roundup: VMware Slashes Jobs
VMware slashed jobs; Microsoft soared to new heights on the cloud; and the EU punts on Huawei.
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There’s no evidence the Saudis hacked Jeff Bezos’s iPhone
There's no evidence the Saudis hacked Jeff Bezos's iPhone.This is the conclusion of the all the independent experts who have reviewed the public report behind the U.N.'s accusations. That report failed to find evidence proving the theory, but instead simply found unknown things it couldn't explain, which it pretended was evidence.
This is a common flaw in such forensics reports. When there's evidence, it's usually found and reported. When there's no evidence, investigators keep looking. Todays devices are complex, so if you keep looking, you always find anomalies you can't explain. There's only two results from such investigations: proof of bad things or anomalies that suggest bad things. There's never any proof that no bad things exist (at least, not in my experience).
Bizarre and inexplicable behavior doesn't mean a hacker attack. Engineers trying to debug problems, and support technicians helping customers, find such behavior all the time. Pretty much every user of technology experiences this. Paranoid users often think there's a conspiracy against them when electronics behave strangely, but "behaving strangely" is perfectly normal.
When you start with the theory that hackers are involved, then you have an explanation for the all that's unexplainable. It's all Continue reading
How to decrypt WhatsApp end-to-end media files
At the center of the "Saudis hacked Bezos" story is a mysterious video file investigators couldn't decrypt, sent by Saudi Crown Prince MBS to Bezos via WhatsApp. In this blog post, I show how to decrypt it. Once decrypted, we'll either have a smoking gun proving the Saudi's guilt, or exoneration showing that nothing in the report implicated the Saudis. I show how everyone can replicate this on their own iPhones.The steps are simple:
- backup the phone to your computer (macOS or Windows), using one of many freely available tools, such as Apple's own iTunes app
- extract the database containing WhatsApp messages from that backup, using one of many freely available tools, or just hunt for the specific file yourself
- grab the .enc file and decryption key from that database, using one of many freely available SQL tools
- decrypt the video, using a tool I just created on GitHub
End-to-end encrypted downloader
The FTI report says that within hours of receiving a suspicious video that Bezos's iPhone began behaving strangely. The report says:
...analysis revealed that the suspect video had been delivered via an encrypted downloader host on WhatsApp’s media server. Due to WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption, the contents Continue reading
Cloud, Software Revenues Prop Up Juniper’s Q4 Earnings
Cloud revenues continued to be a sweet spot for the networking vendor. The vertical saw strong...
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Huawei 5G Equipment Barred From UK Core Networks
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This Data Privacy Day It’s the Little Things That Count
Today we’re celebrating Data Privacy Day, which is all about empowering people and organizations to respect privacy, safeguard data, and enable trust.
Let’s face it, protecting your privacy can feel overwhelming. It can seem like we conduct our entire lives online and it’s hard not to notice headlines about our privacy being undermined, like law enforcement trying to gain access to encrypted data. But whether you know it or not, you’re making choices about what you share and how you share it each day. These seemingly-small actions can make a big impact.
You might already be doing some of these, but here are six actions you can take to protect your privacy:
- Use end-to-end encrypted messaging apps. Switch to using messaging apps that offer end-to-end encryption, such as WhatsApp, Signal, Threema, and Telegram. Some are better than others, so make sure to read the reviews.
- Turn on encryption on your devices or services. Some devices or services will offer encryption, but not set it as the default. Make sure to turn on encryption.
- Use strong passwords. Do not just use a default password, a simple guessable password, or a password that uses personal information, such as your pet’s name. Continue reading
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The 2020 data privacy study shows tangible, financial benefits in being more than a minimally...
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Weekly Wrap: Arista Networks Buys Big Switch
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250M Microsoft Customer Records Exposed; Cisco Prescribes Patches
In the past three weeks, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, and Citrix have announced a slew of...
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US Pledges $1B to Roast Huawei With Open RAN 5G
The proposed funding pales in comparison to the amount of money Huawei and other RAN stalwarts are...
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Financial networks are at a constant risk — especially since they rely on risky IoT devices....
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Arista Networks Buys Big Switch
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Verizon Exec Launches Privafy, Challenges Firewall, SD-WAN, VPN Vendors
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5G and Me: And Security
In today’s uber-connected world, everyone has dealt with that little voice in the back of the...
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