Data of 70 million AT&T users exposed

https://cybernews.com/news/att-database-of-70-million-users-sold-on-hacker-forum/ ShinyHunters, the same group of threat actors that posted T-Mobile users’ data for sale just days ago, is now selling 70 million records that allegedly belong to another mobile service provider – AT&T. The sample of data for sale includes AT&T users’ full names, social security numbers, email addresses, and dates of birth. ShinyHunters is … Read more

RouterOS 7 goes RC

What’s new in 7.1rc1 (2021-Aug-19 13:06): !) added support for IPv6 NAT (CLI only);!) added support for L2TPv3 (CLI only);*) added “expired” user status with suggestion to change password (WinBox v3.29 required);*) added bridge HW offload support for vlan-filtering on RTL8367 switch chip (RB4011, RB1100AHx4);*) added password strength requirement settings;*) added skin support for WinBox … Read more

Pentagon transfers 175 million IP’s

As of January 2021, the Pentagon transferred 175 Million IPv4 addresses to a new and unknown Florida based company named Global Resource Systems, LLC.  This came as a bit of a shock to the internet community for the following four reasons….

Mikrotik IoT KNOT application examples

Many of you are getting familiar with The Internet of Everything (IoT). This naturally leads to the question “What can I do with it?”. Mikrotik has put together a PDF of some real-world examples of how you can put their products to use in the IoT space.

Musings of an ISP engineer Part 1

-Mondays are for emergencies leftover from the weekend. Try not to schedule meetings or things that can’t be fluid. -Customers lie, even when they don’t do it intentionally. They can’t help it. -Sometimes you have to ask your questions in different ways. The more educated the person you are asking the question to, the more … Read more

Justin’s laws of running an ISP

Some of you may recognize these similar to Murphy’s laws of combat 1. 3am is when you find out your backups don’t work 2. Incoming ddos attacks have the right of way 3. Don’t look important, important people get asked tech support questions. 4. There is always a way. 5. The easy way requires money. … Read more

Important Cambium Upgrade by July 1, 2021

UPDATE: Cambium has extended this to January, 31 2022. Updated Bulletinhttps://www.cambiumnetworks.com/support/field-service-bulletins/fsb9083/?fbclid=IwAR0rhizW7jkovSvBFQnUTWyqEKL41nMEceEyfGaeFMAIOIiWNGZTVU0HmTE On July 1, 2021 Cambium will update the certificate for https://cloud.cambiumnetworks.com 14 to use a new Certificate Authority. All cnMaestro managed devices without the updated Root CA certificate will fail to connect to the cnMaestro Cloud service. Please see the following Field Service Bulletin (FSB) for ePMP … Read more