RIPE73

RIPE held its 73rd meeting in Madrid in the last week of October. Here are a few of my takeaways from that meeting.

Walmart Black Friday 2016 deals on TV, drones, Xbox, iPads & more

Walmart is gearing up for Black Friday 2016 with deals featuring brand names like Apple and HP and products ranging from drones to iPhones to big HDTVs.Black Friday watchers such as BFads and Best Black Friday have been tracking new ads closely and we've been watching them closely.The retailer will open stores on Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 24), with online deals will start just after midnight on Thanksgiving. Sensitive to possible criticism of having people working on the holiday, Walmart points out that store associates will be served dinner and receive a 25% discount on goods.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Target, Kmart & Sears Black Friday 2016 tech deals revealed

The first real slew of Black Friday 2016 Apple product deals has been revealed courtesy of a Target ad leak, while Sears and Kmart will also lure shoppers with some cut-rate electronics prices over the Thanksgiving weekend.  Black Friday watchers such as BFads and Best Black Friday have been tracking new ads closely and we've been watching them closely... Black Friday deals this year are getting more and more complicated as retailers stretch the shopping holiday across November. Target, for example, is offering an early access window that ends Nov. 10 for items such as Apple TV systems at 25% off, with in-store shoppers required to use the company’s Cartwheel app to score deals. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Yahoo investigating if insiders knew of hack

Yahoo said investigators were looking into the possibility that some people within the company knew at the time about the late 2014 theft of information of at least 500 million user accounts.Law enforcement authorities on Monday also “began sharing certain data that they indicated was provided by a hacker who claimed the information was Yahoo user account data,” the company said in a regulatory filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Yahoo said it would “analyze and investigate the hacker’s claim.” It isn't clear if this data is from the 2014 hack or from another breach.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Yahoo investigating if insiders knew of hack

Yahoo said investigators were looking into the possibility that some people within the company knew at the time about the late 2014 theft of information of at least 500 million user accounts.Law enforcement authorities on Monday also “began sharing certain data that they indicated was provided by a hacker who claimed the information was Yahoo user account data,” the company said in a regulatory filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Yahoo said it would “analyze and investigate the hacker’s claim.” It isn't clear if this data is from the 2014 hack or from another breach.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worries and uncertainty cloud outlook for digital privacy under President Trump

When President-elect Donald Trump officially takes office, he’ll inherit a powerful U.S. surveillance apparatus, including the National Security Agency, that’s already been accused of trampling over privacy rights.This has some legal experts worried, but like almost every other aspect of a Trump presidency, there are more questions than clarity over what exactly he plans to do.Over the course of his presidential campaign, Trump has only offered snapshots on his views about various U.S. privacy matters, but they suggest a pro-government surveillance stance.For instance, Trump showed support for the NSA’s bulk telephone data collection, which ended last year. “I err on the side of security,” he said at the time. And on Apple's refusal to provide the FBI access to an iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter: the public should boycott the company until it complies, he said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worries and uncertainty cloud outlook for digital privacy under President Trump

When President-elect Donald Trump officially takes office, he’ll inherit a powerful U.S. surveillance apparatus, including the National Security Agency, that’s already been accused of trampling over privacy rights. This has some legal experts worried, but like almost every other aspect of a Trump presidency, there are more questions than clarity over what exactly he plans to do. Over the course of his presidential campaign, Trump has only offered snapshots on his views about various U.S. privacy matters, but they suggest a pro-government surveillance stance. For instance, Trump showed support for the NSA’s bulk telephone data collection, which ended last year. “I err on the side of security,” he said at the time. And on Apple's refusal to provide the FBI access to an iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter: the public should boycott the company until it complies, he said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

An Introduction to the VirtualBox CLI

This post provides a basic introduction to the VirtualBox CLI (command-line interface) tool, vboxmanage. This post does not attempt to replace the comprehensive documentation; rather, its purpose is to help users who are new to vboxmanage (such as myself, having recently adopted VirtualBox for my Vagrant environments) get somewhat up to speed as quickly and as painlessly as possible.

Basic Commands

Let’s start with some basic operations. Here are a few to get you started:

  • To list all the registered VMs, simply run vboxmanage list vms. Note that if you are using Vagrant with VirtualBox, this command will also show VirtualBox VMs that have been instantiated by Vagrant. Similarly, if you are using Docker Machine with VirtualBox, this command will show you VMs created by Docker Machine.

  • To list all the running VMs, use vboxmanage list runningvms.

  • To start a VM, run vboxmanage startvm <name or UUID>. You can optionally specify a --type parameter to control how the VM is started. Using --type gui will show it via the host GUI; using --type headless means you’ll need to interact over the network (typically via SSH). To emulate Vagrant/Docker Machine-like behavior, you’d use --type headless.

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43% off TripWorthy 100-Piece First Aid Bag For Car, Camping or Travel – Deal Alert

Be prepared for the unexpected emergency with this 100-piece 1st aid kit from TripWorthy that is lightweight, small and durable so you can take it wherever you go. Ideal for hiking, camping, hunting or anywhere you may travel. This #1 Best Selling item on Amazon averages 4.8 out of 5 stars on Amazon from over 500 people (88% rate 5 stars: read reviews) and its typical list price of $35 has been reduced to $20. See it on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

President Trump: An uncertain future for tech industry, digital rights

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's vision for the country's economy-driving technology industry is largely a blank canvas, and when he's dipped his toe into IT issues, he's made people nervous. Trump's campaign was dominated by debates over illegal immigration, lost manufacturing jobs, and character issues. Silicon Valley firms largely opposed Trump, and one of his signature issues, rewriting free trade deals between the U.S. and other nations, likely will hurt U.S tech companies' ability to sell products overseas. Meanwhile, digital rights groups say they expect Trump to call for expanded government surveillance programs to fight terrorism and fewer protections for privacy. And a Trump administration will likely work to gut net neutrality rules that the Federal Communications Commission passed only last year, although repealing the rules won't be easy.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

President Trump: An uncertain future for tech industry, digital rights

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's vision for the country's economy-driving technology industry is largely a blank canvas, and when he's dipped his toe into IT issues, he's made people nervous. Trump's campaign was dominated by debates over illegal immigration, lost manufacturing jobs, and character issues. Silicon Valley firms largely opposed Trump, and one of his signature issues, rewriting free trade deals between the U.S. and other nations, likely will hurt U.S tech companies' ability to sell products overseas. Meanwhile, digital rights groups say they expect Trump to call for expanded government surveillance programs to fight terrorism and fewer protections for privacy. And a Trump administration will likely work to gut net neutrality rules that the Federal Communications Commission passed only last year, although repealing the rules won't be easy.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

BrandPost: Can your WAN do more?

Wide area network (WAN) decision-making today generally centers on Internet Protocol (IP)-based services. But many organizations are still running older networking services in various parts of the enterprise, limiting their ability to take advantage of new intelligent features and applications.IP services provide a rich and automated feature set that has been widely deployed and which enable automation and business agility. Among the key enterprise benefits: Flexibility to forward traffic directly among any of your MPLS VPN-connected sites Revolutionary programmability with software-defined networking (SDN) over IP With IP-over-Ethernet in the last mile you can easily increase or decrease access speeds IP-based cellular links can provide a primary or a backup last-mile link Unseen bottlenecksTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: The Facebook Optical Switch

Facebook Inc. has created a high-speed, long-distance networking system it plans to share with other companies, in the social network’s latest push to spur technological advances and drive down hardware prices. The company, which has already shared designs for server systems and data switching gear, on Tuesday disclosed details of its first device designed to link geographically dispersed data centers using fiber-optic cables. —Market Watch

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Ransomware hammers Madison County, Indiana

Madison County, Indiana, population of about 130,000, was the victim of a ransomware attack last week. Government workers without working computers were thrown back in the past to pen and paper, confusion abounds, and county commissioners unanimously voted to pay the ransom.Indiana State Police Capt. Dave Bursten told WTHR, “It's like when I came on in the 80s - we're doing everything with pencil and paper.”“We cannot query old information to bring up prior reports or prior court records,” Madison County Sheriff Scott Mellinger told Fox59. “If we want to bring somebody’s record up for something in the future, let’s say for somebody that has been arrested or somebody who is even in jail then we cannot look up information that would help us at a hearing. On the sheriff’s office side, we cannot book people into jail using the computers. We are using pencil and paper like the old days.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Ransomware hammers Madison County, Indiana

Madison County, Indiana, population of about 130,000, was the victim of a ransomware attack last week. Government workers without working computers were thrown back in the past to pen and paper, confusion abounds, and county commissioners unanimously voted to pay the ransom.Indiana State Police Capt. Dave Bursten told WTHR, “It's like when I came on in the 80s - we're doing everything with pencil and paper.”“We cannot query old information to bring up prior reports or prior court records,” Madison County Sheriff Scott Mellinger told Fox59. “If we want to bring somebody’s record up for something in the future, let’s say for somebody that has been arrested or somebody who is even in jail then we cannot look up information that would help us at a hearing. On the sheriff’s office side, we cannot book people into jail using the computers. We are using pencil and paper like the old days.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Is Trump’s unexpected victory a failure for big data? Not really

Most election prediction shops and public polls in recent days foresaw Republican Donald Trump losing the U.S. presidential race to Democrat Hillary Clinton.They got it wrong, bigly. And the failed predictions could cast doubts on some hot technology sectors, including big data and customer relationship management.Not so fast, say some data experts. The problem with the polls and with forecasters like FiveThirtyEight may have more to do with data collection than data crunching, they say.Data analysis worked well in the Moneyball model for the Oakland Athletics, but baseball stats are different than election polling, said CRM analyst Denis Pombriant, founder of Beagle Research Group. Statisticians have been collecting "highly reliable" baseball data for more than a century, while polling data is more squishy, he said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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