Weekend Reads 052419 By any metric, the queries and responses that take place in the DNS are highly informative of the Internet and its use. But perhaps the level of interdependencies in this space is richer than we might think. —Geoff Huston According to our researchers, the attackers either had access to the source code of the victims’ projects or they injected malware at the time of project compilation, meaning they were in the networks of those companies. And this reminds us of an attack that we reported on a year ago… —Kapersky Endpoint security is a common concern among organizations, but security teams should be thinking more broadly about protecting data wherever it resides. —Kelly Sheridan Two open source projects that have been instrumental in providing metrics for cloud native operations have merged into a single project. The fusion of Google’s OpenCensus and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s OpenTracing will be known as OpenTelemetry, and will be managed by the CNCF. —Joab Jackson In a blog post published Tuesday, Google revealed that its G Suite platform mistakenly stored unhashed passwords of some of its enterprise users on internal servers in plaintext for 14 years because of a bug in the password recovery feature. —Swati Khandelwal Professor Aaron Kay found that people see it as more acceptable to make passionate employees do extra, unpaid, and more demeaning work than they did for employees without the same passion. —Aaron Kay Related Posted in WEEKEND READS ← meeting madness, ONUG, and software definedThe BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) →
