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Today marks the start of a new era for IPv6. Building on the great success of last year’s World IPv6 Day, this year’s “World IPv6 Launch” will bring together major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world to permanently enable IPv6 for their…
The MIKEY-SAKKE protocol is being promoted by the UK government as a better way to secure phone calls. The reality is that MIKEY-SAKKE is designed to offer minimal security while allowing undetectable mass surveillance, through the introduction a backdoor based around mandatory key-escrow. This weakness has…
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...
Folkert and the team at Tweede golf are helping us to build a memory safe NTP implementation. We asked them to share their experience in this blog post. Thank you for your partnership and contributions, Tweede golf team! Josh Aas, Head of ISRG’s Prossimo project For the last few months we at Tweede golf have been…
Guest Post: TCPLS takes advantage of decades of performance optimizations made to TCP and has also a few other tricks up its sleeves.
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
CloudFlare had an hour-long outage this last weekend. Thankfully, outages like this have been a relatively rare occurrance for our service.
The web is healthy when the financial cost of self-expression isn’t a barrier. This installment of the Dweb series describes WebTorrent – an implementation of the BitTorrent protocol that runs ...
Today, Mozilla together with other internet companies ADT, Dropbox, Eventbrite, Reddit, Vimeo, Wikimedia, sent a letter to the FCC asking the agency to rei
At AzireVPN, we are dedicated to providing our users with advanced features that enhance their online experience. We are thrilled to announce the launch of our latest addition: Port forwarding. In this blog post, we will delve into what Port forwarding is and how it can be leveraged to open
This morning on 9/13/2011 at approximately 4:20 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (UTC -7), the uTorrent.com and BitTorrent.com Web servers were compromised. Our standard Windows software download was replaced with a type of fake antivirus “scareware” program. (UPDATE: See below for removal instructions.) Just…
Requests for Comments (RFCs) are how we specify many protocols on the Internet. These documents are alternatively treated as holy texts by developers who parse them for hidden meanings, then shunned as irrelevant because they can’t be understood. This often leads to frustration and – more significantly …
At Open Whisper Systems, we’ve been developing open source “consumer-facing” software for the past four years. We want to share some of the things we’ve learned while doing it. As a software developer, I envy writers, musicians, and filmmakers. Unlike software, when they create something, it is...
This post is about a new feature we've been quietly rolling out over the last few months. Last week we began enabling it for everyone by default.
SANS.edu Internet Storm Center. Today's Top Story: The Classics Return: Vulnerable E-Mail Scripts;
We have talked about the BGP Internet routing protocol before. We have talked about how we build a more resilient network and how we can see outages at a country-level via BGP. We have even talked about the network community that is vital to the operation of the global Internet.
Let’s talk everything from 5G to IoT to digital transformation. Get our latest insights at the Ericsson blog.
Users of kernels < 5.6 may also choose wireguard-lts or wireguard-dkms + linux-headers , depending on which kernel is used.
AIX provides the highest level of performance, security, and reliability of any UNIX operating system.
QRSS is a term used in ham radio to mean "very slow speed morse code". QRPp means "using a very low power radio transmitter". What happens when you combine
If you've suffered any problems accessing any of the sites, the databases, the CPAN mirror, etc from the CPAN Testers server last night, please direct your wrath at Microsoft. Last night the msnbot took out the CPAN Testers server with a dedicated denial of service attack. As a consequence measures are now being put…
