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Our fancy Internet infrastructure operates on a wire and a prayer

The fiber-optic outage---actually sabotage---in the Bay Area on Thursday reveals a dirty little secret: Our infrastructure is ridiculously vulnerable and it only takes a few vandals or terrorists to bring communication to its knees.  While it's unclear what exactly happened, AT&T is offering a $100,000 now $250,000 reward...

Tags: Fiber-optics, Internet-infrastructure, Barrett Lyon, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Network Technology, Transportation, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-10

Tutorial shows how to configure P2P SIP dialing on your Asterisk PBX

Barrett Lyon has created a don't miss resource that shows you how to configure P2P SIP URI Uniform Resource Identifier dialing on your Asterisk-based PBX."There are thousands of people that operate their own Asterisk based PBX systems, yet they do not enable any method to allow for p2p sip...

Tags: Asterisk, SIP, SIP URI

Blog posts 2006-07-13

Barrett Lyon: Internet Influencer

The first thing Barrett Lyon will tell you when he gets on stage is his age. At a youthful 27 years old he is rapidly becoming one of the most influential technologists of the day. He is founder of Prolexic Technologies, an Internet hosting service that defended dozens...

Tags: Barrett Lyon, Prolexic Technologies

Blog posts 2006-06-26

Disturbing developments in DDoS attacks

I had a chat yesterday with someone who is on the front lines in the fight against cyber-extortion. Barrett Lyon is an expert on building the infrastructure and defenses to survive Distributed Denial of Service attacks. His story is fascinating. You can read more about it in the New...

Tags: Barrett Lyon, zombie

Blog posts 2006-04-13

Additional Resources

A live, more interactive Rev3

Television and the Internet are on a collision course that will revolutionize entertainment, but Revision3 is always one step ahead of the game. Today, they launched a new live video player that allows the user to be the director. That's right, you...

Tags: Episode, Media Players, Internet, Corporate Communications, Instant Messaging, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Online Communications, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Pakistan takes out YouTube

Like I said in a recent post, the Internet is a series of tubes. Sometimes that helps route around malicious legislation and regulators, sometimes it causes big problems. Like today at 2 PM eastern when someone in Pakistan announced a more specific BGP route announcement for the block...

Tags: YouTube Inc., Pakistan, Internet, BGP, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Networking, Security, Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2008-02-24

Who shapes IT?

What do Adobe's chief software architect, the man behind MySpace, a 19th-century mathematician and a 21st century futurologist, plus the most hated man in cyberspace all have in common? They are regarded, by ZDNet bloggers, as individuals who exert an especially noteworthy influence on the broad field of information technology....

Tags: information technology

Blog posts 2006-07-24

The man behind MySpace

Tom Anderson, the man behind MySpace, and the ubiquitous friend known as "Tom" to all MySpace users, has created a social phonomenon and brought a revolutionary communication medium to millions of users. Called social networking, this medium allows people to build vast groups of "friends," or other registered users...

Tags: MySpace

Blog posts 2006-07-20

Howard Rheingold about our mobile world

Howard Rheingold is the well-known author of Smart Mobs and many other books describing the evolution of our societies. His last book predicted the transformation of our society into a mobile one. Four years later, and with thousands of posts published on the collective blog organized around this theme, his...

Tags: Howard Rheingold, mobile, telephone

Blog posts 2006-07-20

On the shoulders of genius

George Boole was born in Lincoln, England in 1815 and published The Calculus of Logic in 1848 - almost exactly 100 years after Euler's Introductio in analysin infinitorum Nothing in modern, science based, computing originated in either publication, but the two set in stone the roots of the research behind...

Tags: Enterprise software, George Boole, Neumann

Blog posts 2006-06-30

Dan'l Lewin: Leading Microsoft Emerging Business Development

Dan’l Lewin, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, interacts with a worldwide VC network to surface and nurture emerging venture-capital-backed technology start-ups with the potential to be the “next big things” extending the Microsoft platform, a $10 billion business, and growing.I spoke with Lewin to discuss...

Tags: Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2006-06-27

Making the Rich Internet Application a Reality - Kevin Lynch

It's difficult to talk about the evolution of the web without mentioning Flash. Over the years Flash has run the gambit from annoying animation, to revolutionary video technology and application framework. Who would have thought during the dark days of the skip intro button that Flash would someday serve up...

Tags: Flash, Adobe Systems Inc.

Blog posts 2006-06-23

The most hated man in cyberspace

Richard Stallman. Having covered this space for nearly two years, I have seen more resentment toward Stallman than anyone in the world, even though on the issues he’s right.Stallman, if you don’t know, is the father of GNU, and the "Free Software" movement. He’s not the father of open...

Tags: Richard Stallman, BSD

Blog posts 2006-06-16

Can you hear me now? Big Brother is listening

In today’s threatcast Barrett Lyon and I resort to an air-gap technique to interview an engineer at ATT about the massive funneling of data and voice traffic into the NSA’s analysis centers. At first we looked into doing the interview directly with this guy, who we call Deep Packet,...

Tags: Deep Packet, ATT

Blog posts 2006-04-20

DDOS attacks storming online payment processors

I remember talking to Barrett Lyon over a year ago after he had already been in the business of defending mostly on-line gaming sites from DDOS attacks. I asked him what were the next most likely targets. He said the cyber extortionists would move on to first payment...

Tags: distributed denial of service, processor

Blog posts 2006-02-11

Thoughts from the Summit

A few comments from the 4th Annual Detroit IT Security Summit yesterday.The presentations from the keynote speakers have been posted to the Summit website. Ridgely Evers opened the show with comments on what has gone wrong with IT Security. Evers of Tapit Partners ranks high in my esteem...

Tags: Evers, token

Blog posts 2005-10-07