Is your password secure?
One of the reasons to use password managers such as LastPass with 2Factor authentication
Video on how the Internet Works
I have a few nitpicky things and the video seems a little contrived, but it’s decent nonetheless. WISPs are not really mentioned, but others are not as well.
Routing Registries
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:37 — 13.1MB)
I had routing registries on the brain so I wanted to knock some of the rust of recording and did 10 minutes on routing registries and what they are
Routing Registries and you
This was originally published at https://www.mtin.net/blog/internet-routing-registries/ It has been updated form grammar, but I am working on an updated version of this, Routing Registries are a mysterious underpinning of the peering and BGP world. To many, they are arcane and …
IOt files:update your Hue bulbs
Four years ago, security researchers showed how a flying drone could hack an entire room full of Philips Hue smart light bulbs from outside a building, by setting off a virus-like chain reaction that jumped from bulb to bulb. Today, …
Is your web-site running HTTPS? if not, it should
If you have a website, but do not have https as your default or are even running https then this is the article for you.
Free peering has a cost
Lately, there has been some discussion about the pricing of Internet Exchanges (IXes) and the reasons behind free peering ports and paid peering ports
iOT files: Your GE refrigerator and RFID
Apparently, some of the new GE refrigerators and their filters use an RFID chip to validate if the water filter is genuine or not.
Broadcom announces WIFI6
Wi-Fi 6E is a new standard that builds on the rich feature set of Wi-Fi 6, including OFDMA
Cisco patches firewall bug
The vulnerability is caused by a glitch in the way Cisco’s software handles Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) authentication