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Technology Short Take 166

Scott Lowe

Networking Kevin Jin’s post on the APNIC blog about network automation tools is a great read. He discusses Netmiko, NAPALM, and Nornir in some detail, and provides some guidance around which network automation tool may be right for you. Nick Buraglio discusses IPv6 Unique Local Addressing (ULA). Wonder no longer.

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Beyond the Office: Securing Home Devices and Networks Against Corporate Breaches

SecureWorld News

Additionally, be cautious when adding new friends; verify their authenticity through known offline connections. This may include computers, laptops, printers, mobile phones, tablets, CCTV cameras, household appliances, cars, baby monitors, smart home devices, video streaming tools, game consoles, etc.

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BGP: What is border gateway protocol, and how does it work?

Network World

The absence of security and authentication controls, particularly in early drafts of BGP, makes it challenging to verify the legitimacy of route operations, leaving networks vulnerable to unauthorized route advertisements. IPv6 crossed this milestone late last year.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Scanning the Internet

ForAllSecure

Léveillé: We do develop our own custom module for the grab tool to be able to fingerprint properly the different malware families that we are looking at. ipv6 is designed to overcome the problems of ipv4 address exhaustion. So it would be very, very hard to scan for all the ipv6 addresses. Vamosi: Fingerprint.

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What matters about Matter, the new smart home standard

The Verge

But you will still need to use a smart home platform; Matter is not an automation tool, it’s a connectivity standard. IPv6 carries a heavy software burden and the majority of Zigbee devices out there could not support [that],” says Klein. Every message is secured on the network, and Matter supports secure over-the-air updates.”.

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