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Multiple banking IP addresses hijacked
BGP multiple banking addresses hijacked, Author: Adrien de Beaupre
Snapchat - GibSec Full Disclosure
A series of nicely formatted documents about Snapchat by GibSec.
BitTorrent secures and open-sources DHT bootstrap server
Arvid Norberg, chief architect for BitTorrent, Inc, introduces a new DHT bootstrap server. This latest version introduces Node ID enforcement as an important step in our development for BitTorrent Chat. It’s also now open source so that anyone can run their own bootstrap node.
Telegram secret chat geolocation leak
UPD: I've just received confirmation from Telegram, that a patched version was released a few hours ago. Here is the patch on github....
Experimenting with QUIC
At Google, we're always working to make the web faster. The SPDY protocol , which is now the foundation of the upcoming HTTP 2.0 protocol, i...
Load Balancing without Load Balancers
CloudFlare had an hour-long outage this last weekend. Thankfully, outages like this have been a relatively rare occurrance for our service.
Build WebRTC app backend services | Articles
WebRTC enables peer-to-peer communication. It requires servers so that clients can exchange metadata and coordinate communication through a process called signaling . Servers also help clients cope with network address translators (NATs) and firewalls.