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News in Networking: 160-Tbit/s Cable, Airline Network Issues, and a Patched-Mac Vuln

Kentik

A “network issue” in a global flight-booking system caused major airline delays. Airlines Suffer Worldwide Delays After “Network Issue” (Bloomberg). Amadeus IT Group SA, which operates a global flight-bookings system, said a “network issue” was to blame for a number of delays on Thursday morning.

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Busting 5 Common Myths About Vulnerability Assessment

Tenable

Video conferencing and VoIP solutions that became must-haves for remote-operating organizations (as necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic) were common attack vectors during 2020. The biggest reason why patch management isn't a cure-all is simple: It cannot cover all of your network's entry points.

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Announcing IoT Security: No Organization Is Protected Without It

Palo Alto Networks

Whether it’s building and street light sensors, flow monitors, surveillance cameras , IP phones, point-of-sale systems, conference room technology or so much more, IoT is on the network and in the organization. They are connected to an enterprise’s central network, yet they are generally unmanaged.

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How to Use Open Source Software: Features, Main Software Types, and Selection Advice

Altexsoft

Operating systems. Linux operating system has various versions aka distributions that will suit users with different levels of computer literacy. FreeBSD is a free open source OS, a Unix-like operating system that’s based on Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix. and Netcraft use it. Web servers.

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How conscious companies can thread IoT’s security and privacy needles

The Parallax

It has built-in speakers and microphones for listening to music, GPS audio cues, taking phone calls, and communicating with other Forcite riders via a built-in VoIP system. “When I started in this industry, there was very little thought of how to protect a network-connected device.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica.

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10 Technology Problems Modern Business Owners Have To Deal With

Strategy Driven

Employees will make mistakes by playing the wrong video at the wrong website, and downloading a ransomware virus onto your network. Additionally, solutions like VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) make scaling-out less costly. Some programs could be compatible with either OS (Operating System), most won’t.