Category Archives: networking

Free IPv6 /48 prefix via tunneling over the existing IPv4 Internet

(I thought this posting was relevant now as ?APNIC just assigned their last block of i Hurricane Electric offers a free IPv6 tunneling service if you would like to begin using and or experimenting with the next generation internet protocol.  … Continue reading

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The End of IPv4 FAQ

The Internet Storm Center blog has a great writeup of q+a regarding hitting the limit of IPv4 address space. 3 – A lot of IPv4 space is still unused. Why don’t we use it more effectively? The problem is not … Continue reading

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Preventing future internet traffic misroutes….

Remember back in April of 2010 when for 18 minutes internet traffic was mistakenly misrouted through China’s state run telecom agency?  According to this H article, the European internet registry (RIPE) who manages assignment of IP addresses along with AfriNIC, … Continue reading

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do you know where your pr0n is?

In 2008, Data Loss Prevention (DLP) was becoming the latest trend, hype, buzzword.  This slowed down in 2009 as with most technology because of everyone tightening their belt (purse strings).  I’ve been wondering how long it was going to take … Continue reading

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Podcast about ICANN, root dns servers, Chinese domination and more!

I try to catch the weekly NPR Technology podcast.  This week there’s an interesting segment about ICANN, VeriSign and their root nameservers, as well as China’s desire to wrestle control of the internet.  You can get the podcast here: http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/1019/126006147/npr_126006147.mp3 … Continue reading

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Pay to have your neighbor’s wireless cracked

I just found this article about a new service run by Moxie Marlinspike (from sslsniff fame).  He has created WPA Cracker which uses the cloud (his 100 cpu quad processor cluster) to crack WPA and WPA2 (PSK only) handshake captures.  … Continue reading

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Secure your machine…Whitelist

I previously talked about a blacklisting method to reduce the number of ssh brute force attempts against your machine.  When you follow a blacklisting methodology, in theory, it could never end which is why people are screaming ‘whitelist’ today.  If … Continue reading

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Sourcefire (Snort) Network Security Seminar

Last week I attended a seminar by Sourcefire.  Their CTO, Martin Roesch, was the speaker.  The topic was “Your Network Security Isn’t Good Enough Anymore“.  This seminar was ultimately a sly sales pitch for Snort, their IDS product.  Roesch talked … Continue reading

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Great “defeating the firewall” article

I stumbled across an excellent article on freenode #security.  Does your employer use content filtering?  Are you sick of being restricted when using free wifi hotspots?  How about a hotel charging for wifi? The article talks about methods to circumvent … Continue reading

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DD-WRT and wireless observations

I installed DD-WRT over the weekend following this tutorial.  This is something I wish I would have done a lot sooner because of the additional features DD provides.  Unfortunately I have a v8 WRT54g which only has 2mb of flash … Continue reading

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