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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 complicated. If you have found this article you are at least investigating the use of … Read more
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, we’re learning that vulnerability never got fully fixed https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/5/21123491/philips-hue-bulb-hack-hub-firmware-patch-update
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.
Lately, there has been some discussion about the pricing of Internet Exchanges (IXes) and the reasons behind free peering ports and paid peering ports
Apparently, some of the new GE refrigerators and their filters use an RFID chip to validate if the water filter is genuine or not.
Wi-Fi 6E is a new standard that builds on the rich feature set of Wi-Fi 6, including OFDMA
The vulnerability is caused by a glitch in the way Cisco’s software handles Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) authentication
Some great news for the j2 podcast can now be heard on TuneIN. Head over to https://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-Podcasts/J2-Podcast-p1285217/
https://thehustle.co/01282020-anti-virus-avast-data/
A carrier-neutral data center, also called a carrier hotel, is a data center facility that is entirely independent of network providers.
NAV (Network Administration Visualized) is a free software program to monitor networks
From their web-site To encourage and provide a streamlined way of cooperating I introduce the “NLNOG RING”. In essence the deal is very simple: you make a (virtual) machine available to the RING, and you gain access on all servers which are part of the project, hence the name “RING”. A great example would be to launch a … Read more