Weekend Reads 012420

24 January 2020

There is a lot of public sentiment against placing small cell sites on residential streets. There is a particular fear of broadcasting higher millimeter wave frequencies near to homes since these frequencies have never been in widespread use before. —Doug Dawson

The day I subscribed to The CW Watch — the new streaming service from The CW — I had to confront the fact that I subscribe to 11 different streaming services. —Veronica Walsingham

U.S. insurers are ramping up cyber-insurance rates by as much as 25% and trying to curb exposure to vulnerable customers after a surge of costly claims, industry sources said. —Suzanne Barlyn

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The Hedge Podcast Episode 19: Optional Security is not Optional

22 January 2020

Brian Trammell joins Alvaro Retana and Russ White to discuss his IETF draft Optional Security Is Not An Option, and why optional security is very difficult to deploy in practice. Brian blogs at http://trammell.ch and also writes at APNIC.

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Weekend Reads 011720

WORTH READING

Worth Reading: Ako ransomware

Security researchers observed that Ako ransomware is using malicious spam attachments to go after organizations’ networks. —David Bisson

Worth Reading: SIM swapping attacks

By getting a mobile phone carrier to transfer a user’s phone number to a fraudster’s SIM card, the bad guys can access a variety of riches linked to a victim’s mobile phone. —Terry Sweeney

Worth Reading: Cache is King

The gap between the performance of processors, broadly defined, and the performance of DRAM main memory, also broadly defined, has been an issue for at least three decades when the gap really started to open up. —Timothy Prickett Morgan

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