A new estimate has suggested that Open Fibre Networks (OFN – formerly IFNL), which deploys Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) based ultrafast broadband ISP networks to new build home developments, has grown their network coverage to reach a little over 40,000 premises across the United Kingdom. The open access fibre infrastructure that OFNL builds is usually ordered by …
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We’ve today gathered together the latest information from our UK industry sources in order to produce a summary of the latest broadband ISP technology and service changes at Openreach (BT). On the list this time are new FTTC cabinets, the G.fast self install trial, SoGEA, FTTP on Demand (FoD) and more. We’ll kick things off …
Update on Openreach G.fast, FoD, SoGEA and FTTP Broadband Changes Read More »
Made In Chelsea’s Andy Jordan has a warning about the realities of being a social media influencer. Source:: BBC News – Technology
A vulnerability in GNOME Keyring could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to access sensitive information on a targeted system. The vulnerability exists because the LightDM daemon in the affected software stores user passwords in cleartext. An attacker with root user privileges could exploit this vulnerability by performing a memory dump on the targeted system. If …
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A vulnerability in OpenAM could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform unauthorized actions on a targeted system. The vulnerability is due to improper session management by the affected software. An attacker who has access to an affected system could exploit this vulnerability to modify security questions and then change existing users’ passwords. A successful …
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A vulnerability in Apache JSPWiki could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack on a targeted system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input by the affected software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by persuading a user to access a crafted URL that submits malicious input …
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A vulnerability in the django.utils.numberformat.format() function of Django could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on a targeted system. The vulnerability is due to improper memory operations that exist when the django.utils.numberformat.format() function of the affected software receives a decimal with a large number of digits or a …
A vulnerability in the ebl_core_note function of elfutils could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on a targeted system. The vulnerability exists because the affected software fails to check if the values of a NT_PLATFORM core file note is a zero-terminated string. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability …
BBC Click’s Jen Copestake looks at some of the best technology stories of the week. Source:: BBC News – Technology
You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to quickly deploy solutions that use Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems. Source:: Amazon AWS
You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to quickly deploy solutions that use Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems. Source:: Amazon AWS
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, apps are helping victims gather and share evidence. Source:: BBC News – Technology
The AWS Management Console now makes it easier to use multiple AWS accounts. You can switch from one AWS account (or role) to another with just one click. You no longer have to sign out from one account, before signing in to another. This saves you time and effort. You can access up to five …
AWS Solutions are technical reference implementations built and vetted by AWS Architects and AWS Partners, designed to help customers solve the common problems faced by their peers around the world. AWS Solutions are built to be operationally effective, performant, reliable, secure, cost effective, and be Well-Architected. Every AWS Solution comes with a detailed architecture diagram, …
Subscribe to Kernel of Truth on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Cast Box and Sticher! Click here for our previous episode. Guess who’s back? Back again? The real Kernal of Truth is back with season 2 and we’re starting off this season with all things EVPN! This topic is near and dear to Attilla de Groots’ …
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You know you have a cool job when your first project lets you bring your hobby into the office. That’s what happened to me just a few short weeks ago when I joined Cloudflare. The task: to create a light-up version of our Data Center map – we’re talking more than a hundred LEDs tied …
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Mozilla plans to boost Firefox’s defensive skills by mimicking the “Site Isolation” technology introduced to Google’s Chrome last year. Dubbed “Project Fission,” the effort will more granularly separate sites and their individual components than is currently the case in Firefox. The goal: Isolate malicious sites and attack code so individual sites cannot wreak havoc in …
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Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now API compatible with the DynamoDB transactions SDKs for Python and .NET. As a result, you can integrate your DynamoDB applications written in Python and .NET with DAX without making changes to your existing application logic. Source:: Amazon AWS
US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Frequent readers of the Cloudflare blog are aware of the efforts we’ve undertaken in response to our first encounter with a patent troll. We’re happy to report that on Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an opinion affirming a lower court decision …
Following the recent announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database, we have updated Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility to support PostgreSQL version 10.6. This release contains fixes to PostgreSQL security vulnerabilities included in the current release from the PostgreSQL community and contains additional bug fixes and improvements. Source:: Amazon AWS
