Interested to learn more about IPv6 security? Our Chris Grundemann will be speaking about “Security In An IPv6 World” at LACNIC 21 in Cancun in just a few minutes. He is the second speaker in a session that is scheduled to start at 9:30am local time (which is 10:30 US EDT and 14:30 UTC)… which Read more…
May 06
Celebrate “Day Against DRM” With 50% Off All O’Reilly Ebooks
In celebration of the “Day Against DRM“, O’Reilly is running a sale of 50% off of all their ebooks and videos. All you have to do is go to their site and shopfor ebooks … that’s it! As I note on my page about buying the book, I’m a big fan of buying directly from […]
May 05
DNSSEC-name-and-shame Spotlights Top Web Sites Without DNSSEC
Which of the Top Alexa-ranked sites support DNSSEC? How can you quickly find out if a web site supports DNSSEC? Last week we learned of a fun new site that came out of a recent hackathon at TheNextWeb 2014 conference in Amsterdam that aims to answer these questions. Called “DNSSEC name and shame!” the site can Read more…
May 05
FIR #754 – 5/5/14 – For Immediate Release
Quick News: consequences of a lack of common sense on Twitter, Fleishman Hillard launches Native Newsroom for LinkedIn, WPP acquires Twist Image, more problems for social media policies; Ragan promo; News That Fits: a social media transformation, Micha…
May 02
Reminder – Live Call In Two Hours About TLS / SSL And The Need For More Crypto Everywhere
Reminder – in two hours you can join a live discussion we mentioned earlier this week about the need for more TLS / SSL everywhere and what we can do as a technical community to make that happen. As I noted earlier the main guests will be Olle Johansson and Kristian Kielhofner with others joining in as well. Host Randy Read more…
May 02
Fedora 21 To Have DNSSEC Validation Enabled By Default
By way of a recent tweet from Red Hat’s Paul Wouters we learned the great news that the next release (21) of the Fedora operating system will include a DNSSEC-validating DNS resolver enabled by default. According the Fedora 21 release schedule, if all goes according to plan Fedora 21 should be generally available in October Read more…
May 02
Plan – Where We Need To Get DNSSEC Validation Happening
For DNSSEC to succeed, we need to get DNSSEC validation happening within DNS resolvers at many different levels within the Internet ecosystem. Ideally, the DNSSEC validation will occur as close as possible to the end user (either a person or a device) so that the attack surface where an attacker could inject bogus DNS packets is Read more…
Apr 30
TDYR #149 – Getting Vaccinations For Upcoming Tavel To Djibouti
TDYR #149 – Getting Vaccinations For Upcoming Tavel To Djibouti by Dan York
Apr 30
Summary Report Now Posted of W3C/IAB “Strengthening The Internet (STRINT)” Workshop (Featured Blog)
Given that I’ve written here about the original call for papers for the W3C/IAB “Strengthening The Internet Against Pervasive Monitoring (STRINT)” Workshop and then subsequently that the STRINT submitted papers were publicly available, I feel compelled…
Apr 30
Join The VUC Podcast Live On Friday, May 2, To Talk TLS/SSL And The Need For “More Crypto”
Why do we need “more crypto” everywhere? How can we get more people using TLS (SSL) in applications and services? If you are interested in this topic and want to discuss it with others, please do join the “VoIP Users Conference (VUC)” conference call this Friday, May 2, 2014, at 12 noon US Read more…
