Even before it announced that it would seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Frontier had a well-deserved reputation for mismanagement and abusive conduct. In an industry that routinely enrages its customers, Frontier was the literal poster-child for underinvestment and neglect, an industry leader in outages and poor quality of service, and the inventor of the industry’s most outrageous and absurd billing practices. —EFF
Observability matters. You should care about it. And vendors need to stop trying to confuse people into buying the same old bullshit tools by smooshing them together and slapping on a new label. Exactly how long do they expect to fool people for, anyway? —Charity
As we all know, RPKI is getting a lot of attention and traction nowadays. At the RIPE NCC, we operate one of the five Trust Anchors, a hosted RPKI service, and one of the Validator software packages. A big responsibility that we don’t take lightly. We’re constantly improving code and procedures to ensure we’re following the latest RFC and best practices. Also, security is of key(!) importance. —Nathalie Trenama
Technology always evolves and I’ve been reading about where scientists envision the evolution of 5G. The first generation of 5G, which will be rolled out over the next 3-5 years, is mostly aimed at increasing the throughput of cellular networks. According to Cisco, North American cellular data volumes are growing at a torrid 36% per year, and even faster than that in some urban markets where the volumes of data are doubling every two years. The main goal of first-generation 5G is to increase network capacity to handle that growth. —Doug Dawson
The MITRE ATT&CK framework, launched in 2015, has become the de facto method for cataloging attacks and understanding an organization’s defensive capabilities. This information is also useful to risk professionals, who are charged with aiding organizations in understanding which attacks are the most damaging and how often they might happen. —Jack Freund
Instead of being prescriptive, since one setup may not fit all, I asked our Community Trainers and my APNIC infrastructure colleagues to share their setups and common practices to manage the needs of their networks and staff from the confines of their home. I’ve summarized this below. —Tashi Phuntsho
By the beginning of 2019, it had become obvious that we needed to reassess our technical infrastructure, operational procedures and engineering capacity, as the original design and infrastructure had not taken these emerging requirements into account. Our priority was then set to increase the resilience and security of the RPKI Trust Anchor and Certificate Authority, in order to have a system that can be fully trusted and relied upon by network operators. —Felipe Victolla Silveira
The software development industry’s increasing reliance on open source components has led to a rise in awareness of open source security vulnerabilities, resulting in a drastic increase in the number of discovered open source vulnerabilities, as WhiteSource’s annual report, “The State of Open Source Security Vulnerabilities,” shows. —Jeffrey Martin
…as always, I’ve saved potentially controversial articles for the end…
The scientific revolution that has improved our lives in so many wonderful ways is based on the fundamental principle that theories about the world we live in should be tested rigorously. For example, centuries ago, more than 2 million sailors died from scurvy, a ghastly disease that is now known to be caused by a prolonged vitamin C deficiency. —Gary Smith
The coronavirus crisis has, once more, reminded us all of how much we live in an interdependent world in which what happens in one part of the globe has serious impacts in many other places, and how each of our own actions potentially have implications and importance for the well-being of multitudes of others around us, both near and far. —Richard Ebeling
There is an urgent-care doctor in Bakersfield, California, by the name of Dan Erickson, and he and his business partner Artin Massahi posted a video on YouTube a few days ago making the case for herd immunity and an end to the economic shutdowns. The video was widely shared across the internet, but only for a short time. —Scott McCay
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