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In a vote of 232-190, the House of Representatives passed the Save the Internet Act (H.R. 1644). This is a major step forward in the fight for net neutrality protections, and it’s because you spoke up about what you want.The Save the Internet Act was written to restore the strong and hard-fought...
Posted by Elie Bursztein, Anti-Abuse Research Lead Earlier this year, we deployed a new TLS cipher suite in Chrome that operates three tim...
On March 15th, an HTTPS/TLS Certificate Authority (CA) was tricked into issuing fraudulent certificates that posed a dire risk to Internet security. Based on currently available information, the incident got close to — but was not quite — an Internet-wide security meltdown. As this post will...
A vulnerability in the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) version 1 (v1) and IKE version 2 (v2) code of Cisco ASA Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a reload of the affected system or to remotely execute code. The vulnerability is due to a buffer overflow in the affected code area. An attacker…
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As if 2016 wasn’t long enough, this year, a leap second will cause the last day of December to be one second longer than normal. But don’t worry, we’ve built support for the leap second into the time servers that regulate all Google services.
Data harvesters are reaching into virtually every part of your digital life through the little-known surveillance hardware industry.
A practical guide to HAProxy ACLs. Learn the syntax and follow step-by-step examples to block traffic, redirect users, choose backends, and enhance security.
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Martin Kotuliak, Simon Erni, Patrick Leu, Marc Röschlin, and Srdjan Čapkun, ETH Zurich
via Chaos Engineering we discovered that there are situations where HTTP/2 will perform worse than HTTP/1.
This whitepaper explains the basic technical details of STIR/SHAKEN call authentication and how it prevents caller ID spoofing.
Over the last month, we’ve been watching some of the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks ever seen unfold. As CloudFlare has grown we've brought on line systems capable of absorbing and accurately measuring attacks.
MikroTik makes networking hardware and software, which is used in nearly all countries of the world. Our mission is to make existing Internet technologies faster, more powerful and affordable to wider range of users.
We’ve crafted a bold defense strategy that not only slows scans but actively disrupts and deceives attackers.
This report describes our investigation into the apparent use of Sandvine/Procera Networks Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) devices to deliver nation-state malware in Turkey and indirectly into Syria, and to covertly raise money through affiliate ads and cryptocurrency mining in Egypt.
Our servers manage heaps of network packets, from legit traffic to big DDoS attacks. For top efficiency, we adopted eXpress Data Path (XDP), a Linux kernel tool for swift, low-level packet handling.
What patterns do we see in RUM data during the April 28th power outage in Portugal and Spain?
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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