Yes! The folks at TypePad announced today they going to start using Akismet to fight blog comment spam! As a user of TypePad since 2005-ish, I’ve long been frustrated with how poorly TypePad’s anti-comment-spam mechanisms have worked and have written…
Feb 24
TDYR #110 – The Power Of Hacker News And Reddit To Drive Attention To Your Content
Today I reflect on the power of sites like Hacker News and Reddit to drive a large amount of attention to an article or other piece of content. I discovered today that a post I wrote last week:
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20140219_anyone_who_still_t…
Feb 24
3 Sessions About Securing BGP At IETF89 Next Week
Next week at IETF 89 in London there will be a good bit of discussion around the security and resilience of the Internet’s routing infrastructure. Given our interest in securing BGP, members of our team will be attending the SIDR, GROW and IDR Working Groups next week and engaging in other routing discussions as well. Read more…
Feb 24
FIR #744 – 2/24/14 – For Immediate Release
Back to Skype; Quick news: Chevron gives free pizza after fracking explosion, Virgin Galactic looking for a PR agency, Groupon says its President’s Day gaffe was a hoax, Sprinklr acquires Dachis; Ragan promo; News That Fits: CIPR survey says PR is at a…
Feb 23
RFC 7123 – Security Implications of IPv6 on IPv4 Networks
What are the security issues around IPv6 support and IPv6 transition mechanisms on an IPv4-only network? Could the unplanned and perhaps even unknown support of IPv6 by operating systems introduce additional security concerns into an enterprise network? In an Informational RFC 7123 published in February 2014, Fernando Gont and Will Liu explore the security implications Read more…
Feb 23
TDYR #109 – Wishing The Best For All In Ukraine Right Now
Tonight my thoughts are with all the folks in Kiev and throughout the Ukraine as they make their way through some very turbulent times…
(More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromaidan )
Feb 22
TDYR #108 – The Amazing Power Of The Olympics To Get People Excited About Curling!
TDYR #108 – The Amazing Power Of The Olympics To Get People Excited About Curling! by Dan York
Feb 22
Weekend Project: Join the XMPP “Security Test Day” today to test DNSSEC / DANE
If you have a bit of time today, February 22, 2014, and want to help an effort aimed at making the Internet more secure, the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is holding their second “Security Test Day” today. The goal is to encrypt all traffic between servers and clients on the public network of XMPP servers. Read more…
Feb 21
TDYR #107 – The Joy Of Local Theatre Productions
TDYR #107 – The Joy Of Local Theatre Productions by Dan York
Feb 21
NIST Offers New Tool To Verify TLSA Records For DANE / DNSSEC
Are you experimenting with using the DANE protocol to provide an additional layer of security to your TLS/SSL certificates via DNSSEC? Would you like to easily test that your TLSA record needed for DANE works correctly? If so, the folks at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) now have a new tool Read more…
