The 20th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) began today in San Diego, California, with a program packed full of talks that look fascinating to someone like me with a strong security interest. While there are no sessions specifically focused on DNSSEC or IPv6 listed on the program, there are a range of network security and Read more…
Feb 18
Telemark skiing – and Remembering What It Is Like To Be A Beginner Again
Telemark skiing – and Remembering What It Is Like To Be A Beginner Again by Dan York
Feb 18
FIR #691 – 2/18/13 – For Immediate Release
Schoenberg interview is up; Quick News: Defense contractor releases software to track people via social media, Twitter kills Posterous, American Express enables purchases via hashtag, TD B ank in Google+ local pages; Ragan promo; News That Fits: what d…
Feb 15
Ending A Time Of Quiet And Returning To Action
As you’ve perhaps noticed, it’s been basically two weeks since we last posted anything to the Deploy360 site and I thought I’d just take a moment to explain the quiet time. On the afternoon of February 1, 2013, we had a short outage of the site and while it was only offline for a brief Read more…
Feb 11
FIR #690 – 2/11/13 – For Immediate Release
Schoenberg interview this week, enhancements to FIR Google+ Community page, BBC trials trainee communicators’ programme, journalists taking refuge in branded content, new Forrester predictions, site plagiarizes and files DMCA takedown notice, Ragan pro…
Feb 06
WebRTC Passes Huge Milestone In Rewiring The Web – Video Calls Between Chrome and Firefox
This week the WebRTC/RTCWEB initiative passed a HUGE milestone in adding a real-time communications layer to the Web with achieving interoperability between Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Google and Mozilla celebrated with a pair of blog posts: Hello Firefox, this…
Feb 04
Oracle Buys Acme Packet For $2 Billion To Gain SIP Session Border Controllers (SBCs) And More
Fascinating news today out of Oracle that they have purchased Acme Packet in a transaction estimated to be around $2 billion US. For those of you not really tracking the VoIP security space, Acme Packet is probably the world’s largest…
Feb 04
FIR #689 – 2/4/13 – For Immediate Release
FIR app issue resolved; Schoenberg interview on hold; Quick News:companies failing to accommodate shift to mobile, IBM security tool can flag disgruntled employees, YouTube introducing paid subscriptions, Swedish bloggers commot to 50,000 posts in 100 …
Jan 28
Next SIPit Test Event Feb 18-22 – Deadline of Feb 4 For Registration
Are you a vendor of SIP-based products and services? Do you have software or hardware (or cloud-based products) that use SIP? If so, are you planning to attend the next SIPit test event planned for February 18-22, 2013, in Raleigh,…
Jan 28
FIR #688 – 1/28/13 – For Immediate Release
Welcome new listeners, Francis Ingham interview is up, Allan Schoenberg interview is coming; today is data Protection day; Quick News: introducing Vine, social branding is key to reputation, Pope urges evangelism via Twitter, Pew says libraries still h…
