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Sudan woke up without Internet
Today, October 25, following political turmoil, Sudan woke up without Internet access.
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After 28 years, SSLv2 is still not gone from the internet
After 28 years, SSLv2 is still not gone from the internet... but we're getting there, Author: Jan Kopriva
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Project Capillary: End-to-end encryption for push messaging, simplified
Developers already use HTTPS to communicate with Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM). The channel between FCM server endpoint and the device is encrypted with SSL over TCP. However, messages are not encrypted end-to-end (E2E) between the developer server and the user device unless developers take special measures. To this…
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Large European routing leak sends traffic through China Telecom
Guest Post: A Swiss data centre leaked over 70,000 routes to China Telecom, some for over two hours.
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Is HTTP Public Key Pinning Dead?
HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP, RFC 7469)—a standard that was intended to bring public key pinning to the masses—might be dead.
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How Microsoft Bing Censors the Middle East
Shortly after Microsoft Bing launched in 2009, researchers at the Berkman Center for Internet...
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Cloudflare Pub/Sub: Programmable MQTT Message Brokers
Announcing the beta of Cloudflare Pub/Sub, our programmable, serverless message broker built on the open MQTT messaging standard
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PipeWire and fixing the Linux Video Capture stack
PipeWire has already made great strides forward in terms of improving the audio handling situation on Linux, but one of the original goals was to also bring along the video side of the house. In fact in the first few releases of Fedora Workstation where we shipped PipeWire we solely enabled it as a tool...
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eBPF Summit Day 1 Recap
Day 1 of the eBPF Summit delivered insightful talks on how eBPF is reshaping Linux networking, observability, and security — with ove...
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Armada: Encrypted, Open-Source, Discord Alternative (Built on Nostr)
A free, open source, end-to-end encrypted Discord alternative: servers, channels, voice, and moderation, with no company in the middle. Now in open beta.
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OpenBGPD – Adding Diversity to the Route Server Landscape
Thanks to the RIPE NCC Community Project Fund we were able to revive the OpenBGPD daemon and bring more diversity to the Route Server landscape.
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The bandwidth of a Boeing 747 and its impact on web browsing
Suppose you needed to transfer 1TB of data (perhaps your home movie collection) from San Francisco to London. What would be the fastest route? Put the disk on British Airways flight 286 at SFO, or transfer it across the Internet using a 100 Mbps connection?
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VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten
Internet providers in Sri Lanka are in the vanguard of blocking access to digital security tools that allow users to work around censorship, according to new NetBlocks network measurement data. ...
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How CDNs Generate Certificates
Say Hi to Thomas. Thomas's first weeks at Fly have been hectic, but he's been taking notes, copious notes that can teach you all about the wild world of certificate infrastructure. Read on to discover more...
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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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AWS Lambda now supports IPv6 endpoints for inbound connections
Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS Lambda now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) endpoints for inbound connections
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How secure is HTTPS today? How often is it attacked? (2011)
This is part 1 of a series on the security of HTTPS and TLS/SSL HTTPS is a lot more secure than HTTP! If a site uses accounts, or publishes material that people might prefer to read in private, the site should be protected with HTTPS. Unfortunately, is still feasible for some attackers to break...
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Sovereign Keys, EFF's proposal to replace the certificate authority model
This is part 2 of a series on the security of HTTPS and TLS/SSL. [Part 1] In a previous post, we discussed some structural insecurities in HTTPS and TLS/SSL, and how those are beginning to pose serious problems for the security of the Web. In this post I will introduce a new proposal called "...
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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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Infiltrating a Botnet - A Conversation With a Botmaster
Overview Defending a Customer from a Botmaster An Unsuspecting Customer Stopping the Bot Conversations with a Botmaster You Can Find Anything on the Internet One-Stop Botnet Shopping Pretense to Avoid Pwning Conclusion References Acknowledgments
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Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks
IPv4 address exhaustion just got more real! In an announcement on Tuesday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) indicated that they are starting the process of allocating the final available blocks of IPv4 addresses out to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) from the IANA recovered…
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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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