IPv6 and NATs
This was posted on the NANOG mailing-list by Jack Bates. Well-said!As my corp IT guy put it to me, PAT forces a routing disconnect between internal and external. There is…
Defending Against Sequence Number Attacks
We have published an IETF Internet-Draft entitled "Defending Against Sequence Number Attacks", which is a revision of Steven Bellovin's RFC 1948. The Abstract of the I-D is:This document specifies an…
IETF RFC 6093: On the Implementation of the TCP Urgent Mechanism
RFC 6093 (co-authored by Andrew Yourtchenko and me) has just been published by the RFC Editor.It is available at: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6093.txtThe Abstract of the document is This document analyzes how current…
LACSEC 2011: 6th Network Security Event for Latin America and the Caribbean (Call for Presentations)
*********************************************************************** CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS*********************************************************************** LACSEC 2011 6th Network Security Event for Latin America and the Caribbean May 17-20, 2011, Cancun, Mexico http://lacnic.net/en/eventos/lacnicxv/index.htmlLACNIC (http://www.lacnic.net) is the international organization basedin (Uruguay) that…
Does Cisco really eat its own IPv6 dog food?
While the article written by Carolyn Duffy Marsan for NetworkWorld is entitled "Cisco eats its own IPv6 dog food", this excerpt does not really indicate that Cisco is really eating…
Pentagon pressuring suppliers to use IPv6 products they sell on their own networks, Web sites
This article by Carolyn Duffy Marsan appeared on NetworkWorld:U.S. military strong-arming IT industry on IPv6Pentagon pressuring suppliers to use IPv6 products they sell on their own networks, Web sitesThe U.S.…
Understanding scam victims: seven principles for systems security
I've just read the Technical report entitled "Understanding scam victims: seven principles for systems security" authored by Frank Stajano and Paul Wilson, about the exploitation of the "human factor" in…