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Rockwell Automation: Disconnect OT Devices with Public-Facing Internet Access, Patch or Mitigate Logix, FactoryTalk CVEs

Tenable

An advisory from Rockwell Automation reiterates the importance of disconnecting operational technology devices with public-facing internet access and patching and mitigating systems vulnerable to several flaws. This message was reiterated once again in 2018 as part of ICS-ALERT-11-343-01A.

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The Russification of Ukrainian IP Registration

Kentik

Last summer we teamed up with the New York Times to analyze the re-routing of internet service to Kherson, a region in southern Ukraine that was, at the time, under Russian occupation. In my accompanying blog post , I described how that development mirrored what took place following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. rev# Date Op.

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Diving Deep into Submarine Cables: The Undersea Lifelines of Internet Connectivity

Kentik

Fiber optics The submarine cables that move internet traffic around the world are made from silica glass fiber optic strands that most network engineers are likely familiar with. People working together About 99% of all intercontinental internet traffic goes over submarine cables.

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Tiger Global is earning its stripes in Africa

TechCrunch

However, Tiger Global limited its activity in Africa from 2009 to 2014. Tiger Global’s earliest portfolio investments on the continent were in consumer internet companies. This crop of consumer internet startups targeted industries across media and services such as jobs, commerce and travel.

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2014 Stevens Honor Award – Grandfather of the Internet, Dr. David J. Farber

CTOvision

Farber is known as the grandfather of the Internet. Later at University of Delaware, Farber and a team created CS Net and NSF Net connecting universities nationwide for the first time, this technology later formed the physical backbone of today’s Internet. Doctor David Farber is the recipient of this year’s Stevens Honor Award.

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End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business

TechCrunch

Keys to ascending the consumer-internet throne. He focuses on consumer internet, online marketplace and software investments. Each stage of this evolution unlocked billions of dollars in value, and many of the names listed above remain the largest consumer internet companies today. More posts by this contributor. Justin Da Rosa.

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Here’s why CNET co-founder Halsey Minor is bullish on NFTs

TechCrunch

Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, Minor worked for Merrill Lynch during the rise of the internet in the early 1990s and, in the words of Wayne Gretzky, has been skating to where the puck is going ever since. Since his initial foray into media, Minor has taken to cryptocurrency and blockchain in a big way.