Over on ThreatPost, Dennis Fisher wrote about “Small Signs Of Progress On DNSSEC” reporting on a presentation by CloudFlare’s Nick Sullivan at the Virus Bulletin conference in Seattle this week. The article didn’t go deeply into DNSSEC (as our tutorial pages do) but did have this point which is key to me: Sullivan said CloudFlare, Read more…
Sep 25
Tracking The Shellshock BASH Vulnerability – News, Tools and Links
With all the attention today to the Shellshock vulnerability, I need a place to keep track of it for my own purposes. If this page or list helps anyone else, that’s great, but this is primarily a tool for me to capture what’s going on. I …
Sep 25
BlackBerry’s New Blend Application Requires IPv6 Networking
Yesterday BlackBerry held a series of events announcing their new “Passport” smartphone as well as an application called “BlackBerry Blend” that lets you use your computer or tablet (including iOS and Android tablets) in conjunction with the Passport phone. There was a good bit of media coverage, almost all focusing on the Passport phone itself. One Read more…
Sep 23
Talko Looks Very Cool, But Needed A Firewall Change To Work
The big telecom story today certainly seems to the be launch of Ray Ozzie’s new "Talko" application for iOS. Tons of attention in the tech media, and many of my friends on social media have been trying it out. There’s…
Sep 22
FIR #774 – 9/22/14 – For Immediate Release
Quick News: US consumers don’t want to be brands’ friends, how media used social media during Scottish independence referendum, Radisson’s boost from severing Vikings sponsorship, business inconsistency in speaking up; Ragan promo; News That Fits; the …
Sep 19
Three Years At The Internet Society
Today marks three truly amazing years at the Internet Society. It was September 19, 2011, when I visited the main office in Reston, Virginia, and began this wonderful journey. I wrote back then about why I was taking this job…
Sep 19
Watch Live TODAY (Sept 19) – CITI State of Telecom 2014
What is the future of telecommunications and the Internet? As more entertainment moves to being over the Internet, what are the implications for the media and for the technology? Today, September 19, 2014, there is an interesting set of presentations…
Sep 19
Video: Geoff Huston – what if everyone did DNSSEC? (APNIC 38)
What if everyone enabled DNSSEC? What would happen to your network? Should you be scared? The good folks at APNIC are out with a video from Geoff Huston answering these questions: If you want to get started with DNSSEC so that your domain name can be secure from being impersonated, please visit our Start Here page to find Read more…
Sep 18
BGPmon: Using BGP Data To Fight Spam
Can we use BGP data to find email spammers? And could securing BGP provide a mechanism to help reduce spam? In a fascinating article on BGPmon’s site, Andree Toonk explores how they found that “IP squatting” is used by spammers. Essentially the attack seems to work like this: The spammers identify a block of IP Read more…
Sep 15
FIR #773 – 9/15/14 – For Immediate Release
FIR’s Andrea Vascellari joins Edelman; Quick News: Measurement Week in the UK, PR agency bribes journalist, CIPR’s nine recommendations for flexible working in PR, what it’s like for a reporter to read and reply to every PR email for a week; Ragan prom…
