On Fri, 25 Dec 2009, Jared Mauch wrote:
Cyberstorm III planning is underway. If you want to participate, let
me know, I'll connect you with the right groups. ISP participation would
be incredibly valuable, it's not always been there to the point where
someone plays the role of the whole Inter
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Fred Baker wrote:
The primary value of a firewall is two-fold:
- It enables a network administrator to define his "edge", the interior of
which he is responsible for.
- It enables a network administrator to isolate his network from
externally-originated traffic per his whim
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
Which goes to show that they just really don't get it when it comes to
security. Maybe they should look here at all the entries for 'default
credentials':
Actually, should be 'default password'.
Default credentials may be a more generic descriptio
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Steven Bellovin wrote:
A colleague needs to know, along with citable sources if possible.
Ideally - number of zombified PCs, percentage of zombified PCs, name of
nation, source.
Threat reports from symantec and macafee suggest the US leads, with
China a very close second.
http://www.ncs.gov/library/pubs/Pandemic%20Comms%20Impact%20Study%20(December%202007).pdf
Department of Homeland Security
Pandemic Influenza Impact on Communications Networks Study
December 2007
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Steven Bellovin wrote:
As a matter of form, how might one check out the legitimacy of requests
like this? (No, I don't think this one is fake...)
Although folks on the ground are focused on doing good work, this is an
area where the reputation and infrastructure of well-kno
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Randy Bush wrote:
ssh tunnels to IP address
i am often on funky networks in funky places. e.g. the wireless in
changi really sucked friday night. if i ssh tunneled, it would multiply
the suckiness as tcp would have puked at the loss rate.
smb whacked me that i should use n
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
(WTF quote that just went by - "Hospitals have backup diesel generators, but
only 6-12 hours of fuel". I certainly hope that number is suffering from
pulled-from-orifice syndrome. Heck - *our* day tank has 36 hours of diesel in
it because "power
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9160298/Commercial_networks_in_Haiti_cause_problems_for_local_ISPs
IDG News Service - While the communications networks that aid groups set
up quickly following the earthquake in Haiti were surely critical to
rescue efforts, the new networks have had some
Are there any common locations in Alaska where multiple local ISPs
exchange traffic, either transit or peering? Or is Seattle the closest
exchange point for Alaska ISPs?
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Antonio Querubin wrote:
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Sean Donelan wrote:
Are there any common locations in Alaska where multiple local ISPs exchange
traffic, either transit or peering? Or is Seattle the closest exchange
point for Alaska ISPs?
peeringdb.com lists only SIX (in
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Joe Greco wrote:
I've gotten strange stuff each time I've tried their tests. I
particularly like the factor of 10 difference in upload speeds.
The FCC is probably doing this because US providers generally don't
release actual bandwidth, speeds or latency numbers their con
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Steven Bellovin wrote:
What they really need is something more or less like an accurate zip
code, I suspect. They want to find out what real "broadband" speeds are
in different parts of the country. Putting in a fake address renders
your data useless.
The FCC used to co
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, William Pitcock wrote:
If you're a 15 year old kid and you just discovered a way to own the
latest IOS, for example, how do you know who to tell about it?
Read the manual? Most products and open source projects have a manual
which includes information about contacting the
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, William Pitcock wrote:
What I mean is: why can't anyone contribute valuable information to the
security community? It is next to impossible to meet so-called 'trusted
people' if you're new to the game, which is counter-productive.
How do I break into show business?
http://
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Kevin Oberman wrote:
Fix your security officers!
I have talked to multiple security officers (who are generally not
really knowledgeable on networks) who had 53/tcp blocked and none have
yet agreed to change it. The last one told me that blocking 53/tcp is
"standard industry
On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission will vote on a Notice
of Proposed Rulemaking on submarine cable security.
Approximately 84 of the 600 global inter-country submarine cables are
licensed by the FCC, and a few intra-territorial cables.
https://www.fcc.gov/document/updating-
At least eight U.S. telecommunications firms were compromised in the
attack, a senior White House official said
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/dozens-of-countries-hit-in-chinese-telecom-hacking-campaign-top-u-s-official-says-2a3a5cca
Chinese government officials have denied r
On Sat, 28 Dec 2024, Mike Hammett wrote:
But you don't have to be that rich. You just need friendly local
companies to work with.
I'm not personal friends with any multi-billionaires, and I don't get
invited to parties at multi-billionaire mega-mansions. So I don't have
first-hand experience
On Fri, 27 Dec 2024, Aaron Wendel wrote:
When I built my house a few years ago I put a 0 entry hand hole with 2"
conduit in the ROW in front and pulled 96 SM into the basement. It takes a
little convincing to get the providers to connect out there instead of
running their own lines into my hou
About 20% of new home construction is owner-financed ("Custom" homes). The
builder will add essentially any "commercially reasonable" options the
owner is willing to pay for. But even the rich can't fix broadband access
beyond their property line.
About 80% of new home construction is builder
On Fri, 27 Dec 2024, Mike Hammett wrote:
"But even the rich can't fix broadband access beyond their property line."
It depends on how rich. ;-)
The limitations of the FCC Broadband map, if you are in the Top 10 (not
percent, the Top 10) wealthest people in the USA, it doesn't apply to
reali
On Sun, 29 Dec 2024, Josh Luthman wrote:
Why can't Gates just use the 1.2 Gbps Cable? Just because he has the wealth
to do something doesn't mean there's any requirement to do so.
Uhm. Do you realize that cable is asymetric, with less than 35 Mbps
upstream, and marketing bandwidth numbers are
Although some folks were talking about inside structured wiring, I was
trying to address lack of outside plant (provider side to DEMARC). I went
down the rabbit hole trying to understand what was happening when my
friend first told me about buying in a neighborhood with no telephone or
cabl
On Thu, 19 Dec 2024, Karl Auer wrote:
A friend was involved in a development project in a regional town. They
specified conduits everywhere. When the network people showed up at
some random later date, they mostly just had to pull stuff through
existing conduits. Not sure of the details beyond th
On average about 200 submarine cable damage incidents every yearEssentially all submarine cable damage is accidental not sabotage. The few cases of intentional attacks is so rare, that folks in the industry know them as part of the stories passed down.Easy to accuse but takes months to do the fore
On Mon, 30 Dec 2024, Brandon Martin wrote:
But yeah, I'm of the impression that anything we'd colloquially call a
"mansion" (which is much bigger than what the real estate agents would call
one) is probably going to have dedicated service of some sort. The same goes
for larger hotels, though s
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