The approval was finally given and the systems interconnected, then Papworth, sitting in front of a personal computer, tapped out the greeting “Merry Christmas” and sent it via SMS to Vodafone Director Richard Jarvis.
The text-messaging era was born.
via Happy bday! SMS txt msgs turn 20 – Computerworld.
Perhaps it’s no surprise then that in late 1995, three years after Papworth’s first text message, users were only sending an average of one text every two and a half months.
When I am analyzing network activity generated by malware, I am most interested in HTTP get/posts, the addresses the malware is communicating with, and the data that was actually sent or received.
via Extracting Data from Network Captures pcap with Perl « Mick’s Mix.
Chaosreader is a Perl script that takes a pcap file as its argument and will create communication summaries in a report format. It will also pull data from the tcp streams (within the pcap) and re-assemble the actual files.
Building an OTS boils down to adding two things to an optical transport box: a virtual switch and the software hooks to receive commands from OpenFlow or some similar protocol. Infinera outfitted its gear accordingly, and ESnet provided a home-built SDN controller to talk to it.
via Optical SDN Gets a Test Run – Optical Networking – Telecom News Analysis – Light Reading.
The OTS used in the tests is nowhere near commercial viability, both sides tell Light Reading. The software doesn’t have operational niceties such as alarms or debugging tools, for instance.
OTS=Optical Transport Switch
Starting at 10:26 UTC (12:26pm in Damascus), Syria’s international Internet connectivity shut down. In the global routing table, all 84 of Syria’s IP address blocks have become unreachable, effectively removing the country from the Internet.
via Syrian Internet Is Off The Air – Renesys Blog.
These five offshore survivors include the webservers that were implicated in the delivery of malware targeting Syrian activists in May of this year.
AlcaLu wants to see policy infused into SDN early on. Ideally, the network would tap a user profile — or a virtual machine’s profile — to help it make on-the-fly decisions about what to do with traffic coming from (or being sent to) a virtualized application.
The domain name mobi is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Its name is derived from the adjective mobile, indicating it’s used by mobile devices for accessing Internet resources via the Mobile Web.
The domain was approved by ICANN on 11 July 2005, and is managed by the mTLD global registry. It was originally financially backed and sponsored by Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, Ericsson, Vodafone, T-Mobile, Telefónica Móviles, Telecom Italia Mobile, Orascom Telecom, GSM Association, Hutchison Whampoa, Syniverse Technologies, and Visa, with an executive from each company serving on mTLD’s board of directors.[1][2][3]
In February 2010, Afilias acquired mTLD Top-Level Domain Ltd. (known publicly as “dotMobi”).[4]
OpenNMS is the world’s first enterprise grade network management application platform developed under the open source model.
via The OpenNMS Project.
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A court in Hamburg, Germany, has granted an injunction against a user of the anonymous and encrypted file-sharing network RetroShare . RetroShare users exchange data through encrypted transfers and the network setup ensures that the true sender of the file is always obfuscated. The court, however, has now ruled that RetroShare users who act as an exit node are liable for the encrypted traffic that’s sent by others.
via “Anonymous” File-Sharing Darknet Ruled Illegal by German Court | TorrentFreak.
Physicists have attempted to solve the problem by sending photons through a shared fibre along a ‘quantum channel’ at one characteristic wavelength. The trouble is that the fibre scatters light from the normal data traffic into that wavelength, polluting the quantum channel with stray photons. Andrew Shields, a physicist at the Toshiba Cambridge Research Laboratory, UK, and his colleagues have now developed a detector that picks out photons from this channel only if they strike it at a precise instant, calculated on the basis of when the encoded photons were sent. The team publishes its results in Physics Review X.
via Quantum cryptography conquers noise problem : Nature News & Comment.
Still, 90 kilometres is a “world record that is a big step forward in demonstrating the applicability of quantum cryptography in real-world telecommunications infrastructures”, says Vicente Martín, a physicist at the Technical University of Madrid.
To enable the ability to capture traffic sent and received on other switch ports, Cisco Catalyst switches include a feature called the switch port analyzer feature (SPAN), as well as remote SPAN (RSPAN) and VLAN access control lists (VACLs).
SPAN is the traditional method of monitoring LAN traffic on Cisco switches. SPAN uses the concept of mirroring traffic from a set of source ports to a single destination port, which has a network capture tool connected to it.