Jul 17

For Immediate Release #96: The Crisis That Keeps On Giving

In the July installment of The Hobson & Holtz Report, Neville and Shel talked about a 15-year-old participating in a Work Experience program who took over the Twitter account of the beleaguered Southern Rail in the U.K; an experiment by the online publication Quartz to add display-type ads in the text of stories that let users ask an Artificial Intelligence-based chatbot named Hugo for more information about just the stuff they’re interested in; whether Artificial Intelligence eventually take over the creative side of content marketing; Takata’s air bag crisis, which is now in its second decade; workarounds and system-gaming by brands and publishers frustrated that they can’t get the results they want on the social media channels they’re using, and the true cost of cybercrime to afflicted companies (there’s a communication angle.) Dan York’s Tech Report looks at Microsoft’s new LinkedIn app for Windows 10, issues with the Skype app rollouts for iOS and Android and the changes those issues prompted, and why some publishers are abandoning Snapchat for Instagram.
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Jul 16

Test of a YouTube embed

Just testing embedding a YouTube video via the YT embed code:

Jul 11

Rough Guide to IETF 99: DNS Privacy and Security, including DNSSEC

There’s a good bit of DNS secrurity and privacy activity happening at IETF 99 next week in Prague, although not all of that is in working groups. Here is a view of what is going on.

IETF 99 Hackathon

Once again there will be a good-sized “DNS team” at the IETF 99 Hackathon over the weekend (15-16 July). The IETF 99 Hackathon wiki outlines the work (scroll down to see it). From a security point of view, major projects include:

Dan York

Jul 10

Rough Guide to IETF 99: DNS Privacy and Security, including DNSSEC

There’s a good bit of DNS secrurity and privacy activity happening at IETF 99 next week in Prague, although not all of that is in working groups. Here is a view of what is going on. IETF 99 Hackathon Once again there will be a good-sized “DNS team” at the IETF 99 Hackathon over the weekend (15-16 […]

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Jun 30

Building Our New Website: A video about the user experience of multilingual websites

How do you build a multilingual website? What are the things you should be thinking about? In my last post in this series, I wrote about our need for a multilingual editor (and we now have some GREAT candidates!). But there’s obviously much more to a s…

Jun 29

Building Our New Website: A video about the user experience of multilingual websites

How do you build a multilingual website? What are the things you should be thinking about? In my last post in this series, I wrote about our need for a multilingual editor (and we now have some GREAT candidates!). But there’s obviously much more to a site than just having a person on board. This […]

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Jun 27

New Petyawrap Ransomware Attack Again Highlights Critical Need For Security Processes

Whenever there’s a new attack on a global scale, the world trusts the Internet a little less. Today we are concerned with the many reports about this new ransomware attack called “Petyawrap”, “Petrwrap” or an older name of “Petya.”

The sad fact is: this new attack exploits the same vulnerabilities in Windows systems as last month’s WannaCry attack. 

Fixes have been available for most Windows systems since March 2017!

The same tips Niel Harper provided last month to protect against ransomware also apply here.

Dan York

Jun 27

New Petyawrap Ransomware Attack Again Highlights Critical Need For Security Processes

Whenever there’s a new attack on a global scale, the world trusts the Internet a little less. Today we are concerned with the many reports about this new ransomware attack called “Petyawrap”, “Petrwrap” or an older name of “Petya.” The sad fact is: this new attack exploits the same vulnerabilities in Windows systems as last […]

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Jun 25

Watch LIVE: ICANN 59 DNSSEC Workshop – June 26 at 7:00am UTC (Featured Blog)

Want to learn more about DNSSEC deployment challenges? Interested in learning about a DANE middlebox for HTTPS? Curious about how the upcoming DNSSEC Root Key Rollover will affect systems? And have you heard about the CDS and CDNSKEY records for DNS? W…

Jun 25

Watch LIVE – ICANN 59 DNSSEC Workshop – June 26 at 7:00am UTC

Want to learn more about DNSSEC deployment challenges? Interested in learning about a DANE middlebox for HTTPS? Curious about how the upcoming DNSSEC Root Key Rollover will affect systems? And have you heard about the CDS and CDNSKEY records for DNS? What are they – and what impact will they have on ICANN policies? If […]

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