Do Not Track It’s quite amazing to think that DNT or Do Not Track was first proposed back in 2009 – 13 years ago. This was a first-stab method at the issue of website privacy and the horrendous marketing machine that is the internet. DNT was designed to allow users to opt-out of website tracking, […]
Keeping yourself secure on the internet remains a very important component of our daily lives seeing as internet access is so ingrained in day-to-day activities. Think ride sharing, online banking, retail shopping, email and so on. Social media specifically remains a prime attack vector for malicious activities impacting on many internet users’ security. Yet the […]
SD-WAN (software defined WAN) is a topic that is much discussed in the last couple of years but one that is also the least understood. One of the reasons for this is that there are different implementations of SD-WAN leading to misunderstandings in how SD-WAN is used. So what is SD-WAN? It’s an overlay technology […]
IT and Network Security is a tough arena. Keeping networks, systems and data secure from what can only be called a total onslaught of malware and other malicious attacks, is a difficult task. What makes the task even more difficult is the general indifference of (especially) SMEs to the potential harm that can be caused […]
Facebook’s recent update of the Terms of Service for Whatsapp has got a lot of people riled up. And quite rightly so. The core of this issue is not privacy of information as many believe, but rather pure business economics – let’s cover the basics first. There are 2 primary considerations for using cloud services […]
It’s past time to create additional VLANs on my home network for IoT and guests, so I decided to take the plunge and see what configuration was required on my Mikrotik AP. The basic physical network topology is: internet <—> firewall <—> L2 switches <—> CapAC <—> users As I’m not using an L3 switch […]
Wow. What a week. I’m almost not sure to start but let’s give this a go. Red Hat’s had a pretty hard week convincing Centos users that their announcement Tues (15th Dec) deprecating Centos 8 (and Centos downstream in general), is A Good Thing(tm). How did this come about? Centos is one of the most […]
The queries I’ve been getting lately requesting checks on whether a particular email is spam or not, has been enlightening. It’s clear there’s a problem. Somewhere. Email users are not seeing the “wood for the trees” no matter the fact that spam has been an entrenched part of our lives for a couple of decades […]
The SSL/TLS certificate revocation system (CRL and OCSP) is broken. This is a fact known for a long time by the whole certificate industry. Long-lived certificates that have issues (eg. a certificate that was fraudulently issued), hang around on the Internet for extended periods (currently up to 3 years) potentially causing security and authenticity issues. […]
Browser technology and security events always make for interesting reading especially due to the fact that we do the majority of our online work these days through browsers, be it general web surfing, accessing enterprise apps or managing systems and devices. Browser features and security are therefore critical – this shouldn’t even need to be […]
From the way that Cloud vendors promote their wares and how apologists fawn over these services, one would think that Cloud was the be all and end all of computing. The fact is that we’ve been here before and Cloud is just a more advanced form of central or mainframe computing from the 60s and […]
Apple and Google (yes generally understood to be “sworn enemies” 😀 ) jointly developed an API to be used by contact tracing apps and released said API late in May 2020. Apple and Google’s API follows a decentralized approach, which means that every operation that might involve privacy is carried out on users’ phones, rather […]
