ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Vulnerability scanning is the process of identifying security vulnerabilities in systems or networks. There are a few different types of vulnerability scans that organizations can use to identify vulnerabilities in their systems and networks. Authenticated Scans. Network vulnerability scan. What is Vulnerability Scanning?

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Phil Windley

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Summary: The self-sovereign internet, a secure overlay on the internet, provides the same capacity to produce change by numerous, unaffiliated and uncoordinated actors as the internet itself. This article explores the properties of the self-sovereign internet and makes the case that they justify its generativity claims.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

Well, unlike large organizations, small to medium businesses lack the full accompaniment of network defenses. But if there’s an advanced persistent threat or APT lurking on one of the small or medium business networks, how would that organization know. VAMOSI: Something has changed in the last five years, and demonstrably so.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

I have, however, finally managed to pull together this list of links and articles from around the Internet, and I hope that something I’ve included here proves useful to readers. Networking. Part 2 of Stark and Wayne’s container-to-container networking for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes dig deep into CNI workings.

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Linux Academy

MARCH 28, 2019

It is important to use security tooling such as OpenSCAP, the open source version of the Security Content Automation Protocol, to harden virtual machine images prior to their deployment in virtual private clouds. With cloud virtualization and advanced networking, vacating a cluster after the initialization of a new one is feasible.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. The question is, who is hacking the internet of things today, and how does one even get started?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. The question is, who is hacking the internet of things today, and how does one even get started?

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

As I produce this episode, there's a dangerous new vulnerability known informally as Log4Shell, it’s a flaw in an open source Java logging library developed by the Apache Foundation and, in the hands of a malicious actor, could allow for remote code injection. Vamosi: The idea behind Open Source is great.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

I mean, it was open source, right? And this is open source software, meaning that there’s some developers or some project behind it that has already built out the basics of what you need to put it into your code and start using it. And is it better to be open source or commercial. No shame in that.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

I mean, it was open source, right? And this is open source software, meaning that there’s some developers or some project behind it that has already built out the basics of what you need to put it into your code and start using it. And is it better to be open source or commercial. No shame in that.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

I mean, it was open source, right? And this is open source software, meaning that there’s some developers or some project behind it that has already built out the basics of what you need to put it into your code and start using it. And is it better to be open source or commercial. No shame in that.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

And in May of 2021 Researchers disclosed that the Peloton API authentication was broken. Wilde: Now, for me the storyline was interesting right so when it was reported I think in late January, it was completely open right like this is right no authentication at all because well we didn't tell anybody about it.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

And in May of 2021 Researchers disclosed that the Peloton API authentication was broken. Wilde: Now, for me the storyline was interesting right so when it was reported I think in late January, it was completely open right like this is right no authentication at all because well we didn't tell anybody about it.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 7, 2023

Blockchain developers are responsible for building and maintaining blockchain applications, developing smart contracts, and ensuring the security and integrity of blockchain networks. Definition of blockchain technology Blockchain technology is a digital ledger system that records transactions across a decentralized network of computers.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

éveillé from ESET joins The Hacker Mind podcast to talk about the challenges of building his own internet scanner to scan for elusive malware. Perhaps there was a bulletin board behind it, or perhaps there was a corporate network. What if you were dialed the entire Internet? Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé

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Phil Windley

AUGUST 12, 2020

I argue that this is the kind of thing the internet is best at. The protocols and code that enable the metasystem are open source and available for review and improvement. An identity metasystem based on protocol will have network effects that drive interoperability leading to universality.

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GeekWire

JUNE 2, 2020

Dick Hardt has often been “early to the new,” as he puts it: Microsoft Windows in 1986, neural networks in 1989, the internet in 1993, open source in 1995, and even Burning Man in 1999. “The internet does not have an identity layer,” said Hardt, our latest Geek of the Week. back in 2005.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Hundreds of millions of websites on the internet today rely on the content management system WordPress. WordPress sites can be structured in an almost infinite number of ways, integrating with numerous other open-source plugins and third-party systems.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Understand that until the mid 1990s interconnectivity via the internet was largely academic. Vamosi: So you’re CISO at a major corporation and all of sudden there’s been a ransomware attack in your network, and it’s spreading throughout your infrastructure. For even skin cells left at a crime scene.

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Dataconomy

MAY 24, 2023

Instead of relying on a central authority, the blockchain is maintained by a network of participants, known as nodes, who collectively validate and verify transactions. Different blockchain networks may use various consensus algorithms such as proof-of-work (PoW), proof-of-stake (PoS), or other innovative protocols to achieve consensus.

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Phil Windley

AUGUST 20, 2019

Summary: Sovrin is an identity metasystem that provides the Internet's missing identity layer. Digital identity is broken because the Internet was built without an identity layer. The idea was made famous by a New Yorker cartoon that says, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”. The Problems with Digital Identity.

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Phil Windley

JUNE 4, 2019

Summary: DID Messaging can provide a secure, authenticated, and verified channel for every relationship you have. In my last post, I wrote about a demo given by BCGov, Spark NZ, and Streetcred ID at the last Internet Identity Workshop. That demo caused a lot of people to download and try out Streetcred ID's digital wallet.

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Authentication Open Source Network Software 88

Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

Welcome to Technology Short Take #125, where I have a collection of articles about various data center and cloud technologies collected from around the Internet. Networking. Dinesh Dutt of Cumulus Networks writes about the effect of switch port count in Clos topologies. Good stuff here! Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 8, 2022

Open source software, the internet, and the World Wide Web broke the stranglehold of proprietary software with free software and open protocols, but within a few decades, Google, Amazon, and others had built huge new monopolies founded on big data.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 26, 2021

This article describes the implementation self-sovereign identity through protocol-mediated credential exchange on the self-sovereign internet, examines its properties, and argues for it generative nature from those properties. The self-sovereign internet is labeled "Layer Two" in this figure. Verifiable Credentials.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 21, 2017

Trend #2—Internet of Things (IoT). Prediction: Internet of Things will move off the hype list and become a dominant technology in 2017. Their Mesos framework is built on open source tools: Apache Spark, Apache Mesos, R, and Docker. AirBnB has released the platform to the entire travel industry as open source.

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Phil Windley

MARCH 13, 2020

Summary: The Sovrin Identity Metasystem is based on a sophisticated stack of protocols, implemented in open-source code, backed and supported by hundreds of organizations, large and small, around the world. The Sovrin Network is a metasystem for building identity systems. This makes the network resistant to censorship.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Vamosi: Bowen’s public inquiry revealed findings of multiple buffer overflows, software updates without authentication, and inadequate randomization of the ballots so that valid secrecy can be compromised -- among other vulnerabilities. held a pilot of a new Internet voting system. Halderman : In 2010, Washington D.C.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Vamosi: Bowen’s public inquiry revealed findings of multiple buffer overflows, software updates without authentication, and inadequate randomization of the ballots so that valid secrecy can be compromised -- among other vulnerabilities. held a pilot of a new Internet voting system. Halderman : In 2010, Washington D.C.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 7, 2019

It's no coincidence that Internet Identity Workshop got started in 2005. Many people were talking about user-centric identity and developing ideas about how we might be able to create an identity layer for the Internet. The Internet was created without any way to identify the people who used it.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Vamosi: Bowen’s public inquiry revealed findings of multiple buffer overflows, software updates without authentication, and inadequate randomization of the ballots so that valid secrecy can be compromised -- among other vulnerabilities. held a pilot of a new Internet voting system. Halderman : In 2010, Washington D.C.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 30, 2022

So I started intercepting all the traffic on your network. Elliot Alderson: You are using Tor networking to keep the server's anonymous. Fast, GB wifi leads Elliot to discover a TOR network which leads him to the onion routing protocol. Part that doesn't allow good to exist without condition. Then I decided to hack you.

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Phil Windley

OCTOBER 23, 2018

An Internet for Identity (Aug 2016). The remainder of this post is going to focus on the decentralized nature of the Sovrin Network. As a hybrid system, the Sovrin Network benefits both from having a blockchain-based ledger and from having formal governance. The Sovrin Network. Is Sovrin Decentralized? The Ledger Layer.

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The Verge

AUGUST 27, 2021

Facebook’s report details the top 20 most widely viewed posts on the network over the past three months. The company now routinely removes networks of pages where the creators’ identities are suspect. In fact, he said, he had previously reported the network to Facebook. One of the posts was deleted before Facebook published it.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

In response to this increasing plague upon the internet, there’s a public/private partnership that has created a task force designed to disrupt the ransom payments, thereby disincentivizing the attacks. Cross feeds, like data from a variety of open source tools, publicly available resources and data feeds.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

In response to this increasing plague upon the internet, there’s a public/private partnership that has created a task force designed to disrupt the ransom payments, thereby disincentivizing the attacks. Cross feeds, like data from a variety of open source tools, publicly available resources and data feeds.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

Early Computer Hacking: 1950s & 1960s Hacking is a term that has been used to describe unauthorized access to computer systems or networks for various purposes, including stealing data, causing damage, or demonstrating security vulnerabilities. In 1971, the first computer virus, known as the Creeper virus , was released.

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