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PixieFail: Nine Vulnerabilities UEFI Implementations
This blog post provides details about nine vulnerabilities affecting the IPv6 network protocol stack of EDK II, TianoCore's open source reference implementation of UEFI.
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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 85 posts.
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Transponder Landing System enables precision approaches at McMurdo in Antarctica
The ANPC transponder landing system at McMurdo station allows aircraft to land on the moving ice runway in poor weather or low visibility.
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Xz sshd backdoor collecting usernames from logs
The amazingly scary xz sshd backdoor, Author: Bojan Zdrnja
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Benchmarking latency across common wireless links for microcontrollers
Comparing typical one-way transfer latencies for a range of popular wireless communication modules and protocols
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Nebula is not the fastest mesh VPN, but neither are the others
(But neither are any of the others)
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End-to-end congestion control cannot avoid latency spikes (2022)
What are the fundamental limits of end-to-end congestion control in 5G networks?
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Static IPs for Serverless Containers
Now your Modal containers around the world can have static outbound IPs. Featuring WireGuard, policy-based routing, and NAT.
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Is regulated BGP security coming?
What impact would regulating BGP routing security have on the global Internet?
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BIMI and DMARC Can't Save You: The Overlooked DKIM Exploit
Analysts at Zone.eu, one the leading domain registrars and web hosting providers in Europe, have observed a vulnerability affecting the global e-mail ecosystem, stemming from unaddressed warnings in the DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) standard that puts billions of users in risk. This is not an issue in a particular…
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Navigating Starlink's FCC Paper Trail
Guest Post: What I learned when I figured out how to navigate FCC filings.
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The HTTP Query Method
This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content.
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Support for IPv6
You can now connect to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage via IPv6. Here's the story of how we deployed it and why that matters for you.
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Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Mexico, the US, and Canada
Cloudflare’s data shows a clear impact on Internet traffic from Mexico to the US, and Canada, following the path of totality of the total solar eclipse that occurred on April 8, 2024
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Features and Benefits of Bluetooth Mesh 1.1 for Wireless Mesh Networking
Commercial and industrial applications like lighting require large-scale, low-power device networks where thousands of devices need to communicate with one another efficiently, reliably and securely.
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The spies in your home: How WiFi companies monitor your private life
Data harvesters are reaching into virtually every part of your digital life through the little-known surveillance hardware industry.
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Scanners Beware: Welcome to the network from hell
We’ve crafted a bold defense strategy that not only slows scans but actively disrupts and deceives attackers.
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We have lift-off Element X, Call and Server Suite are ready
Element is launching the world’s first communications platform based on the upcoming Matrix 2.0 release. The result is blazing performance which outperforms the mainstream alternatives...
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R5N - Obfuscated mesh routing on hostile networks.
This document contains the R 5 N DHT technical specification. R 5 N is a secure distributed hash table (DHT) routing algorithm and data structure for decentralized applications. It features an open peer-to-peer overlay routing mechanism which supports ad-hoc permissionless participation and support for topologies in…
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NextNav's Callous Land-Grab to Privatize 900 MHz
The 900 MHz band, a frequency range serving as a commons for all, is now at risk due to NextNav’s brazen attempt to privatize this shared resource. Left by the FCC for use by amateur radio operators, unlicensed consumer devices, and industrial, scientific, and medical equipment, this spectrum has...
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Vulnerabilities show why STARTTLS should be avoided if possible (2021)
Guest Post: Study finds more than 40 STARTTLS-related security flaws in many different software products, both client-side and server-side.
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US Senators implore Department of Defense to expand the use of Matrix
Senators Ron Wyden and Eric Schmitt push the Defense Department to expand the use of Matrix to deliver sovereign, end-to-end encrypted and interoperable communications.
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What is DECT-2020 New Radio (NR), and how big a deal is it? (2021)
Is it fair to describe DECT-2020 NR as a 5G wireless technology at all?
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New UUID formats have been approved
This document presents new time-based UUID formats which are suited for use as a database key. A common case for modern applications is to create a unique identifier for use as a primary key in a database table. This identifier usually implements an embedded timestamp that is sortable using the monotonic creation time…