Collaborate Disseminate
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Ever considered starting a company to create software for TV channel distribution over IP? It is big business with service providers “converging” their networks. Everything is better over IP. Why not TV? Having TVs and set-top boxes with two-way IP connectivity allows you to collect all kinds of data from your users. Imagine you cannot only charge people for the content, but you can also sell their data to advertisers. You will know exactly what they watch and when. Are they flipping channels during commercials?
Continue reading Who Is Hunting For Your IPTV Set-Top Box?, (Thu, Oct 7th)
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The Apache Software Foundation yesterday released version 2.4.50 of its flagship Apache webserver [1]. This release fixes an easily exploited directory traversal vulnerability.
Continue reading Apache 2.4.49 Directory Traversal Vulnerability (CVE-2021-41773), (Wed, Oct 6th)
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Yesterday&#;x26;#;39;s Facebook outage showed yet again the fragility of the Internet&#;x26;#;39;s routing infrastructure. A lot has been written about various deficiencies of BGP, the Border Gateway Protocol. But all too often, the problem isn&#;x26;#;39;t the protocol but the people (or scripts) administering the routers. Our ISC website did suffer a couple of outages last year due to Verizon misconfiguring BGP (sadly… several times within a few days). Facebook&#;x26;#;39;s outage appears to be a misconfiguration as well, according to some early statements from Facebook [1].
Continue reading Looking Glasses: Debugging Network Connectivity Issues, (Tue, Oct 5th)
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For the Billions out there still wasting time on Facebook: Enjoy your increased productivity while many Facebook properties (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) are down.
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In this video, reacting to a reader&#;x26;#;39;s comment, I explain how you can add your own regex to my re-search.py tool (without changing the code).
Continue reading Video: CVE-2021-40444 Maldocs: Extracting URLs, (Sun, Oct 3rd)