Call For Participation – Submit Your Idea For The ICANN 49 DNSSEC Workshop In Singapore

Do you have an idea for a great presentation you’d like to give around DNSSEC?  Perhaps a demonstration of a new tool or service?  Or new DNSSEC statistics or measurements?  Or a new application that works with the DANE protocol? If you’re going to go the ICANN 49 meeting in Singapore in March 2014, there Read more…

Working On Restoring VOIPSEC Mailing List Archive Functionality

We are unfortunately aware that the mail archives for the VOIPSEC mailing list have not been functioning for a long time.  The list still does have occasional active conversations on it and anyone is welcome to subscribe. However, the archive on the list page as well as on the VOIPSA site page for the list has […]

Two New Asterisk Security Vulnerabilities Related To SMS And AMI

The great folks at the Digium / Asterisk Security Team have issued two new security advisories that folks running Asterisk should pay attention to.  They are: AST-2013-006: Buffer Overflow When Receiving Odd Length 16 bit SMS Message – If you have Asterisk set up to receive SMS messages, it seems that a 16-bit SMS message […]

A Trio Of IPv6 Posts From Mark Townsley Worth Reading

Interested in understanding more about what IPv6 is all about?  What to know the benefits of “IPv6-centric” networks? Mark Townsley is a Cisco Fellow and someone very well-known to many of us in the IPv6 community through his writing, videos, and strong advocacy for making the move to IPv6.  Recently he’s been writing on Cisco’s Read more…

FIR #735 – 12/23/13 – For Immediate Release

Inside PR, Thought Leadership and Higher Education all debuting on FIR Podcast Network; Jill Rowley interview is up; Neville interviewed on AMP Up Your Social Media; Quick News: WhatsApp has 400 million users, New York Times outlines native advertising…

FIR #734 – 12/16/13 – For Immediate Release

Three interview and three book reviews coming; FIR Presents Thought Leadership with Mitchell and Michael debuting; FIR website to relaunch; Quick News: national libraries digitizing books, Internet of Things about to explode, bots account for most web …

Awesomeness! Jetpack 2.7 Lets WordPress Users Auto-Post Content To Google+

Now here is an awesome gift for the holidays! Any self-hosted WordPress users who use the JetPack plugin can now automatically publicize their posts out to a Google+ account… including to a Google+ page. This is all courtesy of the…

Video: An introduction to curling by David Murdoch

The folks at World Curling TV published this good “into to curling” tutorial from Scotland’s David Murdoch that explains the basics of curling:

Would you like to see the sport of curling brought to southwestern NH? If so, please 

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First Geographic NewgTLD, .RUHR, Now Delegated (Featured Blog)

Each week ICANN has been delegating more new generic top-level domains (newgTLDs) and it’s been somewhat entertaining to watch the list of delegated strings to see what new TLDs will enter the domain name space starting sometime in early 2014 when they…

First Geographic NewgTLD, .RUHR, Now Delegated (Featured Blog)

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