Attacked by Our Toasters
Is there a connection between the FCC’s Open Internet regulations and the recent DDoS attacks on Brian Krebs, OVH, and Dyn DNS? A letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler from Sen. Mark Warner (D, VA)...
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Making the Internet Secure Again
The Internet utterly depends on the kindness of users. Its free and open nature has always meant that reliable operation is the norm only as long as most users and nearly all devices are well-behaved....
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FBI/DHS Security Report a “Jumbled Mess”
Happy New Year, gentle reader. While we’d all like this year to be better than the last, we’re off to an inauspicious start. The lead story in this week’s tech news is a retraction. A report in last...
View ArticleShane and Richard on Wi-Fi, Security, and Europe
In this edition of the podcast, Shane and Richard talk about setting up a Wi-Fi network for optimal security and performance, recent developments in security, and what’s going on in Europe with...
View ArticleDoH Creates More Problems than it Solves
Unlike most new IETF standards, DNS over HTTPS has been a magnet for controversy since the DoH working group was chartered on 2017. The proposed standard was intended to improve the performance of...
View ArticleWired Trolls 5G Security
I’d like to go through a whole week without a major piece of misinformed drama showing up in my technology news feed; this is not going to be that week. Wired has pumped up a story about some security...
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5G and the Zero Trust Security Model
Press reports today say Dr. Lisa Porter (Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering) has been pitching an open source radio access network plan to major US networking companies. As...
View ArticleAttacked by Our Toasters
Is there a connection between the FCC’s Open Internet regulations and the recent DDoS attacks on Brian Krebs, OVH, and Dyn DNS? A letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler from Sen. Mark Warner (D, VA)...
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Making the Internet Secure Again
The Internet utterly depends on the kindness of users. Its free and open nature has always meant that reliable operation is the norm only as long as most users and nearly all devices are well-behaved....
View ArticleClik here to view.
FBI/DHS Security Report a “Jumbled Mess”
Happy New Year, gentle reader. While we’d all like this year to be better than the last, we’re off to an inauspicious start. The lead story in this week’s tech news is a retraction. A report in last...
View ArticleShane and Richard on Wi-Fi, Security, and Europe
In this edition of the podcast, Shane and Richard talk about setting up a Wi-Fi network for optimal security and performance, recent developments in security, and what’s going on in Europe with...
View ArticleThe Cyberwar in Ukraine
President Biden warned today that Russia is gearing up for cyber attacks on US businesses. Given the administration’s stellar track record in predicting Russian moves in its attack on Ukraine, we...
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