NDSS 2019 Highlights the Best in Security Research

Tomorrow, the 26th consecutive Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) is set to kick off in San Diego, CA. NDSS is a premier academic research conference addressing a wide range of topics associated with improving network and system security. A key focus of the Internet Society has long been improving trust in the global open Internet and all of its connected devices and systems. In today’s world, we need new and innovative ideas and research on the security and privacy of our connected devices and the Internet that connects them together.

NDSS 2019 (24-27 February) will be the biggest NDSS symposium yet, featuring 89 peer-reviewed papers, 35 posters, 4 workshops, and a keynote. Record registration numbers are a key indicator that NDSS 2019 is featuring vital and timely topics. Below are some of the highlights expected in the coming week.

Workshops

This year’s program officially starts with four workshops on Sunday, 24 February. NDSS workshops are organized around a single topic and provide an opportunity for greater dialogue amongst researchers and practitioners in the area. Each of this year’s workshops have dynamic agendas.

The Workshop on Binary Analysis Research (BAR) is returning for its second year at NDSS after a Continue reading

My Cloudflaraversery: Things I’ve Learned Along the Way

My Cloudflaraversery: Things I’ve Learned Along the Way
Cloudflare Retreat 2018 in Napa, CA
My Cloudflaraversery: Things I’ve Learned Along the Way

A year ago, I joined the marketing team at Cloudflare.

I was first attracted to Cloudflare by its audacious mission: to help build a better Internet. As someone who’s spent most of my professional life working on programs — in marketing, policy, communications, and advocacy — that build trust and confidence in the Internet, Cloudflare’s mission resonated with me.

But it wasn’t just the mission — it was the product too. Over its eight years, the company has developed a growing platform of products and solutions that help millions of online properties — from nonprofits and hobbyists to small businesses and large enterprises — protect and accelerate anything connected to the Internet. For me, joining the Cloudflare team was an opportunity to help advance a mission and a product that is doing good in the world.

It’s been an exciting year and I want to take the opportunity to reflect on a few things I’ve learned along the way.

First, trust is everything

During my first few months at Cloudflare, I spoke with dozens and dozens of customers. I wanted to understand Cloudflare from their perspective. What challenges do they face? What progress are Continue reading

Python Pieces – Working with etcd

Ah ha! Surprise – I’ve decided that in addition to the blog posts on MPLS and ExaBGP that I might as well start up a third series. Well – that’s not entirely true – but instead of trying to mix all sorts of details about Python into the blog posts, I thought I might split out some of the larger pieces. So Im starting a new series called “Python Pieces” where I’m going to pick one module, concept, or whatever else I decided warrants a post and talk about how to use it. Then – if/when I use that in one of my other posts – you’ve got a handy reference and starting point. I hope this makes the other posts less “all over the place” but we’ll see.

So – in my first edition of Python Pieces we’re going to talk about working with etcd from Python. For those of you that don’t know what etcd is – it’s a pretty popular key value store that’s used with lots of the more recent projects (Kubernetes comes to mind). What’s likely more important about etcd though is that it’s capable of being a distributed key value store which makes it Continue reading

Juniper Junos

Junos is the name of the operating system that is used to manage Juniper network devices. Fun fact Junos is built on a base of FreeBSD and is designed to be modular and secure while providing a uniform user interface across all platforms. Junos Features Common Code Base The...continue reading

IoT roundup: Outer space, the building is getting smart, and trucking

The classical view of an IoT deployment is relatively centralized – a company wires sensors to important equipment, the sensors send data back to edge gateways, and the gateways do some limited processing of that data and then send it back to the cloud or to the data center. It’s not simple, but it’s easy enough to understand the principles.Some, however, recognize that vastly different architectures for the IoT are possible, including Fleet Space Technologies, a startup that earlier this month announced that it had reached a million device signups for its ambitious satellite-based IoT edge system, which it’s calling Project Galaxy.To read this article in full, please click here

IoT roundup: Outer space, the building is getting smart, and trucking

The classical view of an IoT deployment is relatively centralized – a company wires sensors to important equipment, the sensors send data back to edge gateways, and the gateways do some limited processing of that data and then send it back to the cloud or to the data center. It’s not simple, but it’s easy enough to understand the principles.Some, however, recognize that vastly different architectures for the IoT are possible, including Fleet Space Technologies, a startup that earlier this month announced that it had reached a million device signups for its ambitious satellite-based IoT edge system, which it’s calling Project Galaxy.To read this article in full, please click here

Cloudflare Registrar at three months

Cloudflare Registrar at three months
Cloudflare Registrar at three months

We announced Cloudflare Registrar in September. We launched the product by making it available in waves to our existing customers. During that time we gathered feedback and continued making improvements to the product while also adding more TLDs.

Staring today, we’re excited to make Cloudflare Registrar available to all of our customers. Cloudflare Registrar only charges you what we pay to the registry for your domain and any user can now rely on that at-cost pricing to manage their domain. As part of this announcement, we’d like to share some insights and data about domain registration that we learned during the early access period.

One-click DNS security makes a difference

When you launch your domain to the world, you rely on the Domain Name System (DNS) to direct your users to the address for your site. However, DNS cannot guarantee that your visitors reach your content because DNS, in its basic form, lacks authentication. If someone was able to poison the DNS responses for your site, they could hijack your visitors' DNS requests.

The Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) can help prevent that type of attack by adding a chain of trust to DNS queries. When you enable DNSSEC Continue reading

What is Linux? Everything you need to know about the open-source operating system

Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems for cars, phones, web servers and, more recently, networking gear.Its longevity, maturity and security make it one of the most trusted OSes available today, meaning it is ideal for commercial network devices as well as enterprises that want to use it and its peripherals to customize their own network and data center infrastructure.[ Also see Invaluable tips and tricks for troubleshooting Linux. ] That in turn makes Linux skills highly sought after by IT hiring managers. For example, many of the new technologies associated with DevOps, such as containers, infrastructure, and SDN controllers, are built on Linux.To read this article in full, please click here

What is Linux? Everything you need to know about the open-source operating system

Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems for cars, phones, web servers and, more recently, networking gear.Its longevity, maturity and security make it one of the most trusted OSes available today, meaning it is ideal for commercial network devices as well as enterprises that want to use it and its peripherals to customize their own network and data center infrastructure.[ Also see Invaluable tips and tricks for troubleshooting Linux. ] That in turn makes Linux skills highly sought after by IT hiring managers. For example, many of the new technologies associated with DevOps, such as containers, infrastructure, and SDN controllers, are built on Linux.To read this article in full, please click here

What is Linux? Everything you need to know about the open-source operating system

Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems for cars, phones, web servers and, more recently, networking gear.Its longevity, maturity and security make it one of the most trusted OSes available today, meaning it is ideal for commercial network devices as well as enterprises that want to use it and its peripherals to customize their own network and data center infrastructure.[ Also see Invaluable tips and tricks for troubleshooting Linux. ] That in turn makes Linux skills highly sought after by IT hiring managers. For example, many of the new technologies associated with DevOps, such as containers, infrastructure, and SDN controllers, are built on Linux.To read this article in full, please click here

What is Linux? Everything you need to know about the open-source operating system

Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems for cars, phones, web servers and, more recently, networking gear.Its longevity, maturity and security make it one of the most trusted OSes available today, meaning it is ideal for commercial network devices as well as enterprises that want to use it and its peripherals to customize their own network and data center infrastructure.[ Also see Invaluable tips and tricks for troubleshooting Linux. ] That in turn makes Linux skills highly sought after by IT hiring managers. For example, many of the new technologies associated with DevOps, such as containers, infrastructure, and SDN controllers, are built on Linux.To read this article in full, please click here

What is Linux? Everything you need to know about the open-source operating system

Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems for cars, phones, web servers and, more recently, networking gear.Its longevity, maturity and security make it one of the most trusted OSes available today, meaning it is ideal for commercial network devices as well as enterprises that want to use it and its peripherals to customize their own network and data center infrastructure.[ Also see Invaluable tips and tricks for troubleshooting Linux. ] That in turn makes Linux skills highly sought after by IT hiring managers. For example, many of the new technologies associated with DevOps, such as containers, infrastructure, and SDN controllers, are built on Linux.To read this article in full, please click here

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However, Vincent discovered that the malicious blogs and online services are serving users with a very realistic-looking fake Facebook login prompt after they click the login button which has been designed to capture users’ entered credentials, just like any phishing site. —Mohit Kumar

The U.S. government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies. But to date, the specifics of exactly how that attack went down and who was hit have remained shrouded in secrecy. —Brian Krebs

When Arm Holdings, the division of the Softbank conglomerate that designs and licenses the core component of the processor architecture that bears its name, launched its Neoverse revamping of the Arm architecture for the datacenter and the edge last October, the company put the architecture on a strict annual cadence and promised to deliver 30 percent performance increases at the system level with each generation. —Timothy Prickett Morgan

Ahead of Mobile World Congress, Qualcomm unveiled Snapdragon X55, the world’s fastest 5G modem. While it promises to bring Continue reading

Heavy Networking 431: Understanding Emerging Trends In Optics With InterOptic (Sponsored)

InterOptic returns in this sponsored podcast to explore emerging trends in optics, including the rise of 400G, the differences between OSFP and QSFP, and the state of silicon photonics. Our guests are Robert Coenen, VP of Business Development at InterOptic; and Tim Doiron, Principal Analyst, Intelligent Networking at ACG Research.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 22nd, 2019

Wake up! It's HighScalability time:

 

Isn't inetd a better comp? (link)

 

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  • 2%: of sales spent by consumer packaged goods companies on R&D (14% for tech); 272 million: metric tons of plastic are produced each year around the globe; 100+ fps: Google's Edge TPU; 6,000: bugs per million lines of code; 2.2 GB/sec: SIMD JSON parser; 20-30%: fall in DRAM prices; 8x: Russian hackers faster than North Korean hackers; 50%: EV car sales in China by 2025;

  • Quoteable Quotes:
    • @davygreenberg: If I do a job in 30 minutes it’s because I spent 10 years learning how to do that in 30 minutes. You owe me for the years, not the minutes.
    • @PaulDJohnston: Lambda done badly is still better than Kubernetes done well
    • Ross Mcilroy: we now believe that speculative vulnerabilities on today's hardware defeat all language-enforced confidentiality with no known Continue reading
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