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Summer Cyber Workshops To Switch Wakefield Residents On To …
West Yorkshire Police (press release) Wakefield residents will be given a helping hand to protect themselves against cyber criminals and make the web work better for them this summer through a … |
The frequenter of Reddit’s section devoted to networking had an unusual question for his professional peers:
“Anyone ever had to rack a switch upside down? Our data center uses these garbage PDUs that are blocking the QSFP ports on a 1U 9k switch. Any reason besides it’s f*****g stupid that I shouldn’t rack it upside down? Like something technical?”
Cue the wise guys:
“Be careful, the packets might fall out!”
“The real problem comes from managed switches that have any sort of security setups. A managed switch puts unwanted frames in the bit bucket for disposal, but if it’s upside down the bits will spill out of the bucket and clog the switch’s cooling fans.”
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A study shows that if the U.S. mandates backdoors to decrypt secret messages in order to help law enforcement, there would still be hundreds of alternative encryption products made outside the reach of U.S. law that terrorists and criminals could get their hands on.
“Smart criminals and terrorists will easily be able to switch to more secure alternatives,” is the conclusion drawn by the study “A Worldwide Survey of Encryption Products”. The authors were Internet security authority Bruce Schneier of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, independent security researcher Kathleen Seidel, and Saranya Vijayakumar, a Harvard student.
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The Big Switch and Mobile Security
Infosecurity Magazine Today's mobile security is typically reactive and provided locally on device. Threats are dealt with by each enterprise independently – or not – and then combatted individually. But this is inefficient and more importantly, insecure. In many cases, the … |