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FCC Issues Net Neutrality Order Document →

March 16, 2015 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Commerce, Communications, Compute Infrastructure, Electrical Engineering, Governance, Government, Information Security, Infrastructure, Internet, Internet Governance, Legal, Mobile Networks, Networks, TCP/IP Internetworking, United States of America

The Federal Communications Commission has issued the codified order targeting Net Neutrality. Entitled FCC 15-24*, for GN Docket Number 14-28, In the Matter of Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet, Report and Order on Remand, Declaratory Ruling, and Order. At over *Four hundred pages long*, this document will (likely) become one of the most highly contentious Orders emerging this year (or the weapon of choice for conspiracy theorists due to it's weight*) from the Commission.

March 16, 2015 /Marc Handelman
All is Information, Commerce, Communications, Compute Infrastructure, Electrical Engineering, Governance, Government, Information Security, Infrastructure, Internet, Internet Governance, Legal, Mobile Networks, Networks, TCP/IP Internetworking, United States of America

Net Neutrality Doomed? →

February 20, 2015 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Common Sense, Communications, Compute Infrastructure, Electrical Engineering, Governance, Information Security, Internet Governance, TCP/IP Internetworking

via Jeff Hecht, writing at the IEEE's Spectrum Magazine, notes the fundamental issues with the interwebs may not be oversight, policy or warring leviathan corporate monstrosities. It, that is, Network Neutrality, may be doomed from a technical perspective... Read it and Weep.

February 20, 2015 /Marc Handelman
All is Information, Common Sense, Communications, Compute Infrastructure, Electrical Engineering, Governance, Information Security, Internet Governance, TCP/IP Internetworking

ICS-CERT: Remote Code Execution Flaw, Network Time Protocol

December 22, 2014 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Compute Infrastructure, Computer Science, Information Security, TCP/IP Internetworking, Web Security, Time, Network Protocols

Reports of newly discovered targeted attack code harshed our collective holiday mellow late last week, with the notification via the ICS CERT of flaws in the Network Time Protocol (in this case, prior to NTP version 4.2.8). The NTP 4.28 tarball is here, for folks that need to update their NTP deployments.

"NTP users are strongly urged to take immediate action to ensure that their NTP daemon is not susceptible to use in a reflected denial-of-service (DRDoS) attack. Please see the NTP Security Notice for vulnerability and mitigation details, and the Network Time Foundation Blog for more information. (January 2014) " - via NTP.org

 

December 22, 2014 /Marc Handelman
All is Information, Compute Infrastructure, Computer Science, Information Security, TCP/IP Internetworking, Web Security, Time, Network Protocols

                                                                    Google's Namebench Setup Dialog

DNS, The Fastness →

October 13, 2014 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Network Security, DNS, TCP/IP Internetworking

Interesting piece scrivened by [IMHO] the Curmudgeon-of -all-things-Macintosh - Kirk McElhearn - writing for MacWorld, detailing is research into methods to speed up your traversal of our beloved inter-webs. In this case, the utilization of Google Inc.'s (NasdaqGS: GOOG) Namebench application is in order (the search leviathans' OpenSource DNS benchmark utility. The resultant data points may spark questions...

October 13, 2014 /Marc Handelman
All is Information, Network Security, DNS, TCP/IP Internetworking