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Currently, we have over 26-billion IoT devices running in our workplaces, offices and homes. If you’re looking for an IoT security scorecard, it looks something like this:
Security Threats: 26,000,000,000, IoT Secure Devices: 0. READ MORE HERE…
Better quantum algorithms and a strange silence since last year from quantum computing researchers suggest that we are closer to breaking traditional encryption than most people believe. READ MORE HERE…
A powerful IoT networking technology used by the major carriers continues to gain ground, Congress makes noise about training and a prominent researcher warns of security trouble ahead. READ MORE HERE…
This week, we look at IoT security holes — both usual and unusual — an IIoT player makes a move, and mergers and partnerships worth noting. READ MORE HERE…
As the commercial enterprise firewall approaches its 30th birthday, it is hard to overstate how dramatically the product has evolved. This 2,700-word research report looks the current state of next-generation firewall technology. READ MORE HERE…
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission hit Facebook with a $5 billion fine for mishandling user data. The fine comes after the FTC’s investigation following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. On this episode of TECH(feed), Juliet discusses the implications of this fine — and how Facebook may (or may not) change its practices. READ MORE HERE…
Some may call it a normal, even boring course of vendor business operations but others find it a pain the rump or worse.That about sums up the reaction to news this week that Oracle will end its Dyn Domain Name System enterprise services by 2020 and try to get customers to move to DNS services provided through Oracle Cloud.
More about DNS:
DNS in the cloud: Why and why not
DNS over HTTPS seeks to make internet use more private
How to protect your infrastructure from DNS cache poisoning
ICANN housecleaning revokes old DNS security key
Oracle said that since its acquisition of Dyn in 2016 and the ensuing acquisition of Zenedge, its engineering teams have been working to integrate Dyn’s products and services into the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform. “Enterprises can now leverage the best-in-class DNS, web application security, and email delivery services within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and enhance their applications with a comprehensive platform to build, scale, and operate their cloud infrastructure,” according to Oracle’s FAQ on the move. “As a result, Dyn legacy Enterprise services are targeted to be retired on May 31, 2020 with the exception of Internet Intelligence.”To read this article in full, please click here READ MORE HERE…
In a few months, the internet will be a more secure place. That’s because the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has voted to go ahead with the first-ever changing of the cryptographic key that helps protect the internet’s address book – the Domain Name System (DNS). [ Now see: The hidden cause of slow internet and how to fix it. ]
The ICANN Board at its meeting in Belgium this week, decided to proceed with its plans to change or “roll” the key for the DNS root on Oct. 11, 2018. It will mark the first time the key has been changed since it was first put in place in 2010.To read this article in full, please click here READ MORE HERE…