The CIA, NSA and Pokémon Go

With Pokémon Go currently enjoying, what I would call, a wee-bit-o-success, now seems like a good time to talk about a few things people may not know about the world's favorite new smartphone game.This is not an opinion piece. I am not going to tell you Pokémon Go is bad or that it invades your privacy. I’m merely presenting verifiable facts about the biggest, most talked about game out there.+ Also on Network World: The Pokémon Go effect on the network +Let’s start with a little history.Way back in 2001, Keyhole, Inc. was founded by John Hanke (who previously worked in a “foreign affairs” position within the U.S. government). The company was named after the old “eye-in-the-sky” military satellites. One of the key, early backers of Keyhole was a firm called In-Q-Tel.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 22nd, 2016

Hey, it's HighScalability time:


It's not too late London. There's still time to make this happen. 

 

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  • 40%: energy Google saves in datacenters using machine learning; 2.3: times more energy knights in armor spend than when walking; 1000x: energy efficiency of 3D carbon nanotubes over silicon chips; 176,000: searchable documents from the Founding Fathers of the US; 93 petaflops: China’s Sunway TaihuLight; $800m: Azure's quarterly revenue; 500 Terabits per square inch: density when storing a bit with an atom; 2 billion: Uber rides; 46 months: jail time for accessing a database; 

  • Quotable Quotes:
    • Lenin: There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
    • Nitsan Wakart: I have it from reliable sources that incorrectly measuring latency can lead to losing ones job, loved ones, will to live and control of bowel movements.
    • Margaret Hamilton~ part of the culture on the Apollo program “was to learn from everyone and everything, including from that which one would least expect.”
    • @DShankar: Basically @elonmusk plans to compete with -all vehicle manufacturers (cars/trucks/buses) -all ridesharing companies -all Continue reading

A hackable election: 5 things you need to know about e-voting machines

As the U.S. heads toward an especially contentious national election in November, 15 states are still clinging to outdated electronic voting machines that don't support paper printouts used to audit their internal vote counts. E-voting machines without attached printers are still being used in a handful of presidential swing states, leading some voting security advocates to worry about the potential of a hacked election. Some makers of e-voting machines, often called direct-recording electronic machines or DREs, are now focusing on other sorts of voting technology, including optical scanners. They seem reluctant to talk about DREs; three major DRE vendors didn't respond to questions about security.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

A hackable election: 5 things you need to know about e-voting machines

As the U.S. heads toward an especially contentious national election in November, 15 states are still clinging to outdated electronic voting machines that don't support paper printouts used to audit their internal vote counts. E-voting machines without attached printers are still being used in a handful of presidential swing states, leading some voting security advocates to worry about the potential of a hacked election. Some makers of e-voting machines, often called direct-recording electronic machines or DREs, are now focusing on other sorts of voting technology, including optical scanners. They seem reluctant to talk about DREs; three major DRE vendors didn't respond to questions about security.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Are ARM Virtualization Woes Overstated?

As we have seen with gathering force, ARM is making a solid bid for datacenters of the future. However, a key feature of many serer farms that will be looking exploit the energy efficiency benefits of 64-bit ARM is the ability to maintain performance in a virtualized environment.

Neither X86 or ARM were built with virtualization in mind, which meant an uphill battle for Intel to build hardware support for hypervisors into its chips. VMware led the charge here beginning in the late 1990s, and over time, Intel made it its business to ensure an ability to support several different …

Are ARM Virtualization Woes Overstated? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Cybersecurity: A vertical industry application?

Cybersecurity has always been a horizontal technology practice that’s roughly the same across all industry sectors. Yes, some industries have different regulations, use cases or business processes that demand specific security controls, but overall every company needs things like firewalls, IDS/IPS, threat management gateways and antivirus software regardless.Generic security requirements will remain forever, but I see a burgeoning trend transforming cybersecurity from a set of horizontal technologies to a vertical industry application. These drivers include: Increasing business focus on cybersecurity. While it sounds like industry hype, cybersecurity has actually become a boardroom issue and corporate boards understand industry-specific risks much better than technology gibberish about malware and exploits. To accommodate these corporate executives, CISOs will need communications skills, as well as tools and technologies that help translate cybersecurity data into meaningful industry and corporate risk intelligence that can drive investment and decision making. Security intelligence vendors like BitSight and SecurityScorecard are already exploiting this need, offering industry-centric cybersecurity metrics for business use. CISO progression. The present generation of CISOs grew up through the ranks of IT and security with career development responsibilities such as network operations and firewall administration. Yes, the next generation of CISOs will still need some Continue reading

Cybersecurity: A vertical industry application?

Cybersecurity has always been a horizontal technology practice that’s roughly the same across all industry sectors. Yes, some industries have different regulations, use cases or business processes that demand specific security controls, but overall every company needs things like firewalls, IDS/IPS, threat management gateways and antivirus software regardless.Generic security requirements will remain forever, but I see a burgeoning trend transforming cybersecurity from a set of horizontal technologies to a vertical industry application. These drivers include: Increasing business focus on cybersecurity. While it sounds like industry hype, cybersecurity has actually become a boardroom issue and corporate boards understand industry-specific risks much better than technology gibberish about malware and exploits. To accommodate these corporate executives, CISOs will need communications skills, as well as tools and technologies that help translate cybersecurity data into meaningful industry and corporate risk intelligence that can drive investment and decision making. Security intelligence vendors like BitSight and SecurityScorecard are already exploiting this need, offering industry-centric cybersecurity metrics for business use. CISO progression. The present generation of CISOs grew up through the ranks of IT and security with career development responsibilities such as network operations and firewall administration. Yes, the next generation of CISOs will still need some Continue reading

Worth Reading: Microsoft’s Bid for LinkedIn

It’s time for all organizations and their investors to realize that the tools that they provide to customers — products such as cars, telephones, health-care, or finance — and to their employees in the form of benefits, training, software, and the like — need to be combined with the network to which that group belongs. —MarketWatch

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Sift Security helps SecOps teams analyze and visualize patterns of threats and speed up investigations  

This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices.  Click here to subscribe.   There's a powerful new generation of security operations (SecOps) tools coming to market designed to help SecOps teams find and react to threats much quicker than before. The best of these tools also enable security analysts to proactively hunt for threats that might be present in their enterprise environment. These tools bring data together from disparate sources and begin to connect the dots so analysts can dive right into the investigation without having to search for relevant data points. The products tend to eliminate the manual work of sifting through logs, finding all the relevant data, and trying to find correlations among the events.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Sift Security helps SecOps teams analyze and visualize patterns of threats and speed up investigations  

This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices.  Click here to subscribe.   There's a powerful new generation of security operations (SecOps) tools coming to market designed to help SecOps teams find and react to threats much quicker than before. The best of these tools also enable security analysts to proactively hunt for threats that might be present in their enterprise environment. These tools bring data together from disparate sources and begin to connect the dots so analysts can dive right into the investigation without having to search for relevant data points. The products tend to eliminate the manual work of sifting through logs, finding all the relevant data, and trying to find correlations among the events.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Best Deals of the Week – Deal Alert

15% off Google OnHub AC1900 Wireless Wi-Fi RouterThe OnHub AC1900 wireless router from Google and TP-LINK is designed to make even the more complicated home networks run fast and efficiently. It supports over 100 devices at one time, providing speeds of up to 1900mbps. It's unique circular design with 13 antennas provides up to 2,500 square feet of reliable coverage. Streaming a movie or downloading large files? OnHub lets you manage speeds to specific devices or give a boost where/when needed. The On App lets you manage, prioritize and troubleshoot right from your device, at home or away. OnHub currently averages 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon from over 500 people (read reviews). It's typical list price of $199.99 has been reduced 15% to $169.99. See the discounted Google OnHub AC1900 wireless router now on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Best Deals of the Week – Deal Alert

15% off Google OnHub AC1900 Wireless Wi-Fi RouterThe OnHub AC1900 wireless router from Google and TP-LINK is designed to make even the more complicated home networks run fast and efficiently. It supports over 100 devices at one time, providing speeds of up to 1900mbps. It's unique circular design with 13 antennas provides up to 2,500 square feet of reliable coverage. Streaming a movie or downloading large files? OnHub lets you manage speeds to specific devices or give a boost where/when needed. The On App lets you manage, prioritize and troubleshoot right from your device, at home or away. OnHub currently averages 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon from over 500 people (read reviews). It's typical list price of $199.99 has been reduced 15% to $169.99. See the discounted Google OnHub AC1900 wireless router now on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Per VRF accounting solution

Document: Per VRF accounting solution. - Per-VRF-Accounting.pdf Hello, Here after a solution to count input/output traffic per VRF. Tested in stress in Junos 14.2. File is available above. Enjoy reading. David

Per VRF accounting solution

Document: Per VRF accounting solution. - Per-VRF-Accounting.pdf Hello, Here after a solution to count input/output traffic per VRF. Tested in stress in Junos 14.2. File is available above. Enjoy reading. David

Per VRF accounting solution

Document: Per VRF accounting solution. - Per-VRF-Accounting.pdf Hello, Here after a solution to count input/output traffic per VRF. Tested in stress in Junos 14.2. File is available above. Enjoy reading. David

IDG Contributor Network: Wi-Fi Certified Passpoint zig-zags towards success

How far should a leader seek to change public opinion, to get out in front rather than follow? Lincoln famously said, “Public sentiment is everything,” but the quote concludes with, “He who moulds public sentiment… makes decisions possible.” It’s an enduring debate in the hinterland of academia where engineers seldom tread.But standards can be like that. They often package basic, universal features with more decorative additions that offer transformational improvements but are of minority interest. There’s a risk that the burden of implementing these additional features will deter some vendors, and they may shun the standard altogether. If too many follow this course, the standard will fail in the market. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: 3 ways device fingerprinting must evolve to prevent fraud

Fraud is a $1 trillion annual problem worldwide. With rapid growth in ecommerce and online banking over the past decade, fraudsters are increasingly shifting to using computers and smartphones to commit fraud. One technology that helps companies and governments spot fraud—and sometimes stop it before it starts —is device fingerprinting. Device fingerprinting works by uniquely identifying computers, tablets and mobile phones based on various attributes (e.g., browser version, screen dimensions, list of installed fonts, etc.). So, if a fraudster were to commit fraud using a particular mobile phone and was caught and that phone was fingerprinted, it would be difficult for that fraudster to commit another transaction from the same device. However, the fingerprint changes every time a user makes a device update. It’s therefore incredibly easy to fake a new device fingerprint.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: 3 ways device fingerprinting must evolve to prevent fraud

Fraud is a $1 trillion annual problem worldwide. With rapid growth in ecommerce and online banking over the past decade, fraudsters are increasingly shifting to using computers and smartphones to commit fraud. One technology that helps companies and governments spot fraud—and sometimes stop it before it starts —is device fingerprinting. Device fingerprinting works by uniquely identifying computers, tablets and mobile phones based on various attributes (e.g., browser version, screen dimensions, list of installed fonts, etc.). So, if a fraudster were to commit fraud using a particular mobile phone and was caught and that phone was fingerprinted, it would be difficult for that fraudster to commit another transaction from the same device. However, the fingerprint changes every time a user makes a device update. It’s therefore incredibly easy to fake a new device fingerprint.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

AI expanding in the enterprise (whether or not you know it)

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are already proliferating in the enterprise. However, many business leaders don't realize they're leveraging technologies that rely on AI, according to a new study by natural language generation (NLG) specialist Narrative Science. Despite the confusion, adoption is imminent. Stuart Frankel, CEO and co-founder of Narrative Science. "AI has been around for a long time," says Stuart Frankel, CEO and co-founder of Narrative Science. "While it is super-hot and very buzzy today, there are still some success stories of AI that we just don't consider AI anymore. We use it every day and we're used to it. I think that's a natural progression. Once that esoteric technology that's sort of hard to explain gets wide adoption, it's no longer AI anymore."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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