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DNS 101: An Introduction to Domain Name Servers
Second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning — Peter PanAt the beginning of the ARPANET, there were only a few hosts that could be kept in a...
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DNS Security: Threat Modeling DNSSEC, DoT, and DoH
There's been a lot of talk about DNS-over-HTTPS aka DoH lately, primarily due to Mozilla's and Google's respective plans to move forward with enabling it in their browsers. There's also a lot of misunderstanding and conflation of speculated plans for world domination with practical benefits of the technology; it…
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Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in Southern Turkey
Network data from the NetBlocks internet observatory confirm that Turkey has blocked access to social media and messaging platforms in the southern cities of Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa and Hatay, as the ...
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Iraq introduces nightly internet curfew
Network data from the NetBlocks internet observatory confirm that Iraq has introduced a nighttime internet curfew, consistent with reports from IT industry workers in recent days. Confirmed: #Iraq has partly ...
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CloudFlare is ruining the internet for me (2016)
Follow up: Cloudflare: Making the internet a little bit faster – for a select group of people CloudFlare is a very helpful service if you are a website owner and don’t want to deal with separate…
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VPN⁰: A Privacy-Preserving Distributed VPN
This research presents VPN⁰, the first distributed virtual private network offering a privacy preserving traffic authorization and validation mechanism.
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Update: Approaching IPv4 Run-out
Today we allocated the last of our contiguous /22 IPv4 address blocks. We still have approximately one million addresses available, in the form of /23s and /24s, and we will continue making /22-equivalent allocations made up of these smaller blocks. Once we can no longer allocate the equivalent of a /22, we will…
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Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, shuts down internet
Network data from the NetBlocks internet observatory show that Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram and other social and messaging apps have been blocked in Iraq by multiple internet providers as of ...
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Google – polling like it's the 90s
A technical review of the live score feature in Google search results, delivered with some surprisingly old-school tech from the 90s.
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Wireless attacks on aircraft instrument landing systems
Wireless attacks on aircraft instrument landing systems Sathaye et al., USENIX Security Symposium 2019 It’s been a while since we last looked at security attacks against connected real-world entiti…
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HTTP/3: the past, the present, and the future
We are now happy to announce that QUIC and HTTP/3 support is available on the Cloudflare edge network. We’re excited to be joined in this announcement by Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, two of the leading browser vendors and partners in our effort to make the web faster and more reliable for all.
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Centralised DoH is bad for privacy
Recently, Mozilla announced it would be moving Firefox DNS lookups to Cloudflare by default, for its American audience.
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WARP is here
Today, after a longer than expected wait, we're opening WARP and WARP+ to the general public. If you haven’t heard about it yet, WARP is a mobile app designed for everyone which uses our global network to secure all of your phone’s Internet traffic.
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The tech behind building an independent, internet radio station
Oscar is on the web
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Handshake: Decentralizing DNS to Improve the Security of the Internet
News and announcements from Namebase.
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Curryfinger – Find the Server Behind the CDN
CURRYFINGER quickly and effectively identifies the real hosts behind CDN networks like CloudFlare - and outperforms existing tools. Find out how to use it.
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Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor
These candidates were assessed on a variety of axes, most importantly Community Participation Guideline enforcement and accessibility, but also including team requirements from engineering, organizational-values alignment, usability, utility and cost. To close out, I’ll talk about the options we haven’t chosen and…
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SSL added and removed here ;-)
This post is part of our ongoing series about networks, privacy, governments and (of course) online security tools like Cloak. Last week, the Washington Post unleashed yet another bombshell revelation from the Snowden documents.
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I revoked $1M worth of EV certificates
Personal like or dislike of EV aside for a moment, we can all agree on what the name of EV certs implies. Organisations get their company details in the certificate and CAs have to do some extended validation of that data compared to a normal certificate. Turns out, that doesn'
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Turn off DoH, Firefox
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What’s Next in Making Encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS the Default
More than 70,000 users have already chosen on their own to explicitly enable DoH in Firefox Release edition. We are close to releasing DoH in the USA, and we have a few updates to share.
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Let's Encrypt makes certs for 30% of web domains
Looking at a dataset of 350 million ssl connections inspires some initial questions:
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Maesh, a Lightweight and Simpler Service Mesh
We are proud to introduce Maesh, Containous’ new service mesh designed from the ground up to be straightforward, easy to install and easy to use...
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Improved VPC Networking for AWS Lambda
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Update – August 5, 2020: We have fully rolled out the changes to the following additional Regions to those mentioned below. These improvements are now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by…
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The “mail is hard” myth
TL;DR: - Mail is not hard: people keep repeating that because they read it, not because they tried it - Big Mailer Corps are quite happy with that myth, it keeps their userbase growing - Big Mailer Corps control a large percentage of the e-mail address space which is good for none of us - It's ok that people have…
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API Gateway Identity Crisis – are they replaced by service mesh?
API Gateways are going through a bit of an identity crisis these days.