Author: Andreas

  • $AKAM releases Q2 2015 State of the Internet Security Report 

    Akamai has released the Q2 2015 State of the Internet Security Report. This quarter’s report, which provides analysis and insight into the global cloud security threat landscape, can be downloaded here. via: Q2 2015 State of the Internet Security Report Released – The Akamai Blog

  • Net neutrality helps terrorists.

    At least that’s what lobbyists managed to convince politicians of, has The Verge.

  • IPv4

    Straight outta addresses. Felt this was appropriate use of a meme. #IPv6 pic.twitter.com/DTOLo2bgvl — Tom Hollingsworth (@NetworkingNerd) August 13, 2015

  • Backup/Restore.

    Successful.

  • Smartphones are the primary internet device in 2015.

    Coming from 15% in 2013, smartphones are the primary device to connect to the internet only two years later. 2015 that that went up to 33%. Laptop and Desktop lost significantly in the same period. https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/629157862732738564

  • AntiVirus Firm BitDefender Hacked

    AntiVirus Firm BitDefender Hacked by DetoxRansome; Turns Out Stored Passwords Are UnEncrypted via: AntiVirus Firm BitDefender Hacked; Turns Out Stored Passwords Are UnEncrypted

  • ARIN IPv4 Addresses Run Out Tomorrow

    ARIN exhausted: via: Slashdot

  • Spectrum 2015 Programming Languages

    New languages enter the scene, and big data makes its mark Spoiler: basically, all is the same as past year, but R made a jump up by 4 positions and ranks 6th now. R is a statistical language, capable of munging huge amounts of data, hence the Big Data reference in the article. via: Spectrum

  • IETF93 DOTS Recording

    Recording from the IETF “DDoS Open Threat Signaling” (DOTS) Working Group meeting during IETF93, taking place July 19-24 in Prague. The agenda of the WG is to develop a standards based approach for the realtime signaling of DDoS related telemetry and threat handling requests and data between elements concerned with DDoS attack detection, classification, traceback,…

  • Skype translate has reportedly a swearing problem.

    The joys of automation don’t go down with society that well for Skype. For some reason, Microsoft’s Skype translator is inserting unintended expletives into its Chinese translations. Quelle: Microsoft’s Skype Translator has a potty mouth