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A joke in networking circles is that the switch from IPv4 to IPv6 is always a few years away. Although IPv6 was introduced in the early 90s as a result …read more Continue reading The Glacial IPv6 Transition: Raising Questions on Necessity and NAT-Based Solutions
We finally have some answers about the Windows IPv6 vulnerability — and a Proof of Concept! The patch was a single change in the Windows TCP/IP driver’s Ipv6pProcessOptions(), now calling …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: The Rest of the IPv6 Story, CVE Hunting, and Hacking the TSA
You may have heard about a very large data breach, exposing the Social Security numbers of three billion individuals. Now hang on. Social Security numbers are a particularly American data …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Three Billion SS Numbers, IPv6 RCE, and Ring -2
Security experts are ratcheting up the urgency for Windows admins to patch a wormable, pre-auth remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows TCP/IP stack.
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Many hackers have familiar sayings in their heads, such as “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” and KISS (Keep it simple, stupid). Those of us who have been in …read more Continue reading Embrace IPv6 before its too late?
This week, Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls talk with David Taht about the state of the Internet and, specifically, IPv4 exhaustion. We’re running out of IPv4 addresses! But we’ve been …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 769: 10% More Internet
I am switching to nftables and converted my old iptables rules. I would like to support IPv6 too.
I have several rules that I have added over the years from reading tutorials about security.
Several of them I either forgot or I am not sur… Continue reading Do I need to change my nftables firewall rules?
Some sites such as Talos, Abuse and the aggregator FireHOL provide the community with some lists of rogue and malicious IPv4 addresses and subnets.
Could anyone share some similar freely available URLs regarding IPv6 ranges?
I’m aware of t… Continue reading IPv6 blocklists [closed]
Today, I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Do Attackers Pay More Attention to IPv6?“: IPv6 has always been a hot topic! Available for years, many ISP’s deployed IPv6 up to their residential customers. In Belgium, we were for a long time, the top-one country with IPv6 deployment because all
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Have you ever noticed that some websites can figure out, at least roughly, where you are? Sometimes they use it to find you a closer content provider. Or they might …read more Continue reading Where Exactly Did That Network Packet Come From?