Re: Can somebody explain these ransomwear attacks?

2021-06-28 Thread Mike Meredith via NANOG
Hi! On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 18:56:36 +0300, "Alex K." may have written: > Ah ... and one more thing. Gladly, it is not our (network folks) life's > complicated. It's system/DBA/and security folks, lifes. But I don't want > to get cocky. We got SDN :-) Yet. Probably. Ransomware gangs /do/ target inf

Re: VDSL

2019-10-17 Thread Mike Meredith via NANOG
On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:45:35 +0100 (BST), "t...@pelican.org" may have written: > The chickens have come home to roost now though, as they're struggling to > find a cool branding for the subsequent FTTP roll-out, and not getting > any better than "full fibre", a.k.a "we lied to you last time, but t

Re: Update to BCP-38?

2019-10-09 Thread Mike Meredith via NANOG
On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 13:59:58 +, Mark Collins may have written: > Not everyone attacking your systems is going to have the skills or > knowledge to get in though - simple tricks (like hiding what web server > you use) can prevent casual attacks from script kiddies and others who > aren't committ

Re: Update to BCP-38?

2019-10-08 Thread Mike Meredith via NANOG
As an Evil Firewall Administratorâ„¢, I have an interest in this area ... On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 15:05:29 -0700, William Herrin may have written: > On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 2:28 PM Keith Medcalf wrote > > Anyone who says something like that is not a "security geek". They are > > a "security poser", int

Re: Colombia Network Operators Group

2019-09-25 Thread Mike Meredith via NANOG
On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 14:06:36 -0700, "Scott Weeks" may have written: > >the Cisco Umbrella security researchers." > > Fascinating. What is the security threat I wonder, that there is no > JavaScript? > --- Security threats aren't limited to JavaScri