Oct 31

For Immediate Release #59: Kick Him in the (Virtual) Nuts!

Christopher Barger (Brain+Trust Partners), Gini Dietrich (Arment Dietrich Inc.), and Doug Haslam (Stone Temple Consulting) were on the FIR panel for some conversation about a study that found a correlation between increased investment in CSR activities and profitability; ratings for National Football League broadcasts are way down and a lot of reasons are being cited (a lot of them come down to the NFL’s culture and values); sexism is alive and well — even at the PRSA conference, CMOs think Artificial Intelligence will be a bigger deal than social media, and much more.

  • PR agencies aren’t training their staffs to deliver the kind of digital services their clients want.

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Oct 27

Watch Live TODAY – DNSSEC Root KSK Ceremony at 17:00 UTC

Today a critical part of DNS security – DNSSEC – will receive a major update, and you can watch it all live at starting at 17:00 UTC (1:00pm US EDT – local time) streaming out of ICANN’s data center in Virginia: https://www.iana.org/dnssec/ceremonies/27 Olaf Kolkman, our CITO, will be in attendance as a “Crypto Officer” (key holder). Olaf Read more…

Oct 25

How To Survive A DNS DDoS Attack – Consider using multiple DNS providers

How can your company continue to make its website and Internet services available during a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against a DNS hosting provider? In light of last Friday’s attack on Dyn’s DNS infrastructure, many people are asking this question.

One potential solution is to look at using multiple DNS providers for hosting your DNS records. The challenge with Friday’s attack was that so many of the affected companies – Twitter, Github, Spotify, Etsy, SoundCloud and many more – were using ONLY one provider for DNS services. When that DNS provider, Dyn, Inc, then came under attack, people couldn’t get to the servers running those services.  It was a single point of failure.  

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Oct 25

Audio Interview: Mozilla’s Nils Ohlmeier about Firefox and WebRTC

Want to learn the latest about WebRTC inside of Firefox? Nils Ohlmeier from Mozilla sat down for an interview at the IIT RTC Conference last week with Mark Fletcher of the Avaya Podcast Network. I found it quite a useful…

Oct 24

How To Survive A DNS DDoS Attack – Consider using multiple DNS providers

How can your company continue to make its website and Internet services available during a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against a DNS hosting provider? In light of last Friday’s attack on Dyn’s DNS infrastructure, many people are asking this question. One potential solution is to look at using multiple DNS providers for hosting your […]

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Oct 23

For Immediate Release #58: Attack of the Things

Two of our panelists this week have new employment gigs — Heidi Miller with TimeXtender and Olivier Blanchard with Futurum Research + Analysis — while Cyrus Mavalwala is still with Advantis Communications, the company he founded. Topics this week included Wells Fargo’s crisis plans (based on information revealed in an earnings call), Twitter’s efforts to cope with trolls, the high value of press releases in Asia Pacific, Facebook’s decision to allow more graphic and offensive content, the recent cyberattack, new ways of slicing and dicing audiences, chatbots, and Mixed Reality.
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Oct 18

Still Struggling To Write Consistently…

As a writer, it is incredibly frustrating when you find yourself NOT writing. It’s hard to explain, but there’s a kind of pressure that builds up inside you. It keeps building and building and building and BUILDING… and if the pressure is not released through writing then it comes out in other ways. The way you treat others. Your health. Depression. Frustration. I’m in that state today – if you look at my danyork.me site pulling together all my writing and audio, the number of days I’ve been actually writing or creating audio is a bit sparse: This post will…

Oct 17

For Immediate Release #57: PR on TV

It’s a wide-ranging conversation this week with TopRank Marketing CEO Lee Odden, Bozell PR and Social Media Strategist Jennifer Stauss, and Zena Weist, director of Marketing and Media Relations for Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas. Our topics included Google’s plan to introduce a mobile-only search index and its implications for content marketers, the further blurring of lines between delivery channels as Facebook enables you to watch Live videos on your TV and a growing number of people watch presidential debates on Twitter and Facebook, the move toward personalized content, a self-made crisis for Delta Airlines, and much more.

  • The increasing personalization of content, with examples including a campaign that delivers video based on your facial expressions and a patent for a technology that will display relevant billboards as you drive by

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Oct 11

Heading to Romania to ION Bucharest for DNSSEC, IPv6, routing security and more

This week I will briefly be in Bucharest, Romania, for the Internet Society’s ION Bucharest conference. We’ve got a great set of sessions on the agenda, including: Deploying DNSSEC Romanian DNSSEC Case Study Let’s Encrypt & DANE Mind Your MANRS…

Oct 10

TDYR 314 – On The Way To Romania for ION Bucharest

I am heading to Bucharest, Romania, to be part of the Internet Society’s “ION Bucharest” conference on Wednesday, Oct 13. More info can be found at https://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ion/