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Quad9’s Opinion of the Recent Court Ruling in Leipzig
A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy
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Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera chat
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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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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Nuvem, a subsea cable to connect Portugal, Bermuda, and the U.S.
The Nuvem submarine cable will connect Portugal, Bermuda and South Carolina, and will be Bermuda’s first transatlantic fiber optic route.
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Vodafone unveils prototype 5G network built on a Raspberry Pi computer
Vodafone today unveiled a prototype 5G network built on a credit card sized Raspberry Pi personal computer and an equally small, advanced silicon chipset. This industry-first concept will enable small businesses and households to extend 5G coverage and increase capacity according to their needs and to have their very…
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Arxiv.org is experiencing a DDoS attack
arXiv users may be experiencing email disruption due to a DDOS attack. Over the past few days, a small number of users issued over a million email change…
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Would we still create Nebula today?
Spoiler: Yes. (But the "why" matters. A lot.)
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An underwater landslide knocked out two critical submarine cables serving Africa
On Sunday, August 6, an undersea landslide in one of the world’s longest submarine canyons knocked out two of the most important submarine cables serving the African internet. The loss of these cables knocked out international internet bandwidth along the west coast of Africa. In this blog post, we review some history…
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macOS 14 Sonoma firewall bug fixed
The firewall bug in macOS 14 Sonoma betas and release candidates that we blogged about last week has been fixed by Apple.
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It's not always DNS, unless it is
Our journey investigating a months-long issue and what we learned from it
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Messaging layer security: Secure and usable end-to-end encryption
The IETF has approved publication of Messaging Layer Security (MLS), a new standard for end-to-end security that will make it easy for apps to provide the highest level of security to their users. End-to-end encryption is an increasingly important security feature in Internet applications. It keeps users’ information…
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All IP addresses are equal? “Dot-zero” addresses are less equal (2013)
In theory, all IP addresses are the same, and you can allocate them at random without a problem. 192.168.1.2 is certainly not better or worse than 192.168.1.15, right? But, in practice, certain IP addresses are regarded as "special" by some implementations and do not yield the same user experience.…
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RCE on MikroTik routers with IPv6 RA enabled
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.
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HTTP/2 Rapid Reset: deconstructing the record-breaking attack
This post dives into the details of the HTTP/2 protocol, the feature that attackers exploited to generate the massive Rapid Reset attacks
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Disabling Matrix Portalling
Portalled channels will be going away on 2023-07-31. Details below.
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HTTP vs. WebSockets: Which one is the fastest for Postgres queries at the edge?
Faster is always better, especially when executing SQL queries. We recently introduced SQL-over-HTTP to our driver, which previously only supported WebSockets. Why did we do that? And which approach is faster? Our journey developing the WebSockets serverless driver We first developed the Neon driver to help developers…
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An investigation into Apple’s new Relay network
Guest Post: Analysing Apple Private Relay’s effects on the Internet and future measurement-based research.
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Why does MPEG Transport Stream still exist?
MPEG-TS is still used extensively, even in “modern” transport mechanisms such as SRT, RIST and Zixi. Why though?
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Port forwarding
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
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How to Read an RFC (2018)
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 …