Microsoft has splashed out again. They have just acquired open-source source code management and sharing platform GitHub for $7.5bn. GitHub has a community of 28 million developers and hosts 85 million repositories of code. GitHub is used to host some of the most significant open-source projects, including Ansible, Kubernetes and many others. Microsoft’s last major purchase was…
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IPDetails – a useful multi-tool to gather details about an IP address
What I initially needed IPDetails to offer A couple of months ago I needed a tool that allowed me to gather more information on IP addresses that I’d collected using SiLK. The tool will enable me to cluster IP addresses for cloud flows, not just on the IP address, but on the AS number and ISP.…
Mind the missing floor tiles!
We have had a few floor-tiles up recently, watch your footing! We’ve also switched to using the WordPress Kuhn theme by Mor10.com. The new template uses the CSS Grid technique to provide a different way of presenting the same content more responsively. The earlier theme had a lot of options we didn’t use, and an…
Wi-Fi encryption KRACK-ed with re-keying injection
On Monday, a coordinated disclosure announcement revealed that WiFi networks are at risk. The disclosure was found early with the discovery of the GitHub repository for the talking points on the issue. The security teams investigating the matter named it KRACK. They documented their findings on www.krackattacks.com. Ars Technica was the first to publish an article (Severe…
BBR improves Google Cloud Platform performance
Google has developed a new TCP congestion control mechanism. This has now been applied to the Google Compute Platform, having previously been added to YouTube and Google.com. This BBR (Bandwidth Bottleneck and Round-Trip Propagation Time) mechanism overcomes some of the challenges with other mechanisms. Google sees the challenges as being twofold, occurring in shallow buffered…