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Mirai Botnet Linked to Dyn DNS DDoS Attacks
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attempts to make a machine or network unavailable by flooding it with overwhelming amounts of traffic.
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Russian ship loitering near undersea cables
**Russian ship loitering near undersea cables** Updated: Original article 9th Oct. 2016. The Russian Navy’s Project 22010 mini-sub host ship Yantar is known for loitering near undersea internet cables (known as Submarine communications Cables - SCC). It may have other special missions also…. Read More >….
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Say Cheese: a snapshot of the massive DDoS attacks coming from IoT cameras
Over the last few weeks we've seen DDoS attacks hitting our systems that show that attackers have switched to new, large methods of bringing down web applications.
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Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in Turkey following leaks
Turkey has blocked access to Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive and partially restricted Google Drive cloud file sharing services popular on mobile phones as well as in education, business, legal and press industries, ...
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IP Spoofing
The recording and slides are available, but for easier consumption here's a transcript.
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Are closed social networks inevitable? (2010)
This is an archive of an old Google Buzz conversation (circa 2010?) on a variety of topics, including whether or not it's inevetible that a closed platform will dominate social.
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Industry Concerns about TLS 1.3
Search IETF mail list archives
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Introducing a new kind of Wi-Fi system
Whether you’re video chatting with mom, binge-watching the latest series, or simply getting work done, strong and reliable Wi-Fi is key to staying connected.
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OpenBSC: 3G Voice Works
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Gr-satellites – A collection of GNUradio decoders for satellite telemetry
This post is to present my gr-satellites project. The goal of this project is to make a collection of GNUradio decoders for the telemetry of different satellites. The decoders support submitting telemetry in real time to the PE0SAT telemetry server . Another goal is that the decoders are as easy to use as possible, to…
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European Court Allows Copyright Owners to Demand Open Wifi Networks be Secured
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) recently announced its decision in Sony v McFadden with important consequences for open wireless in the European Union. The court held that providers of open wifi are not liable for copyright violations committed by others, but can be ordered to prevent further...
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Using Gmail with Mutt
A tutorial on using gmail with mutt, a console-based email client, along with some advanced concepts such as encrypting your account password and sending emails from a different <code>From</code> address.
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Roughtime: a protocol for secure, auditable time synchronisation
Security protocols often assume an accurate, local clock (e.g. TLS, Kerberos, DNSSEC and more). It's a widely accepted assumption when designing protocols but, for a lot of people, it just isn't true. We find good evidence that at least 25% of all certificate errors in Chrome are due to a bad local clock.
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Vector is now called Riot
Three months ago we launched the public beta of Vector at the electric atmosphere of the Decentralized Web Summit, bringing our…
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All quiet in the IPv4 Internet?
Guest Post: A new study measures 1.2 billion unique IPv4 addresses to provide a glimpse of what IPv4 usage activity looks like.
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Announcing Envoy: C++ L7 proxy and communication bus
Today we are incredibly excited to open source Envoy, our high performance C++ distributed proxy and communication bus designed for large…
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Weirdly broken Wi-Fi access points
And how to work around one kind on Mac OSX
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FlyWeb – Pure Web Cross-Device Interaction
FlyWeb is an experimental project we’ve been prototyping from within the depths of Mozilla’s platform division. It started as a side-project late last year, and since then a small, ad-hoc ...
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Flightradar24 ADS-B Receivers On-board a Surface Ocean Robot
We are excited to announce for the first time that we have received and processed ADS-B signals collected by our autonomous boat. The unmanned surface vehicle, a Wave Glider® manufactured by Liquid Robotics® and managed by Maritime Robotics as part of their new partnership, is receiving ADS-B signals from aircraft…
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