How much HTTP (not HTTPS) Traffic is Traversing Your Perimeter?, (Tue, Oct 22nd)

Back in June of 2010, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released the first beta release of the “HTTPS Everywhere” plugin [1]. Even then, most websites offered HTTPS. But unlike today, HTTP was often still the default, and HTTPS was not always implemented across the entire site.

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A Network Nerd’s Take on Emergency Preparedness, (Tue, Oct 15th)

Over the last month, two hurricanes barely missed me. Luckily, neither caused me any significant inconvenience. Sadly, others were not as lucky, and I think this is a good time to do a little “Lessons Learned” exercise. It made meÂ; ;reconsider some of my emergency preparations. I will take a “geek spin” on emergency preparedness in this post. There are better sources to talk about what food to store and how to fill your tub with sufficient water. I will focus more on power and data connectivity. At least once, someone complained that the “Internet Storm Center” does not talk about the weather. This post should keep them happy :).for illustration, picture of heavy rain and storm

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Scanning Activity from Subnet 15.184.0.0/16, (Thu, Oct 17th)

I noticed in my logs 2 weeks ago regular probe from a subnet in the AmazonÂ; ;cloud only scanning for TCP/8080 capture by the iptables of myÂ; ;DShield sensor. The scanning started on the 15 Aug – 4 Oct 2024 where the sensor recorded 1046 individual IPs from thisÂ; ;network.Â; ;

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