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How Reliable Is Cable Internet? Here’s How Our Networks Are Performing

CableLabs

Starting in mid-March, the world experienced a sudden surge in internet usage driven by the widespread COVID-19 stay-at-home orders that caused many of us to switch to working and studying at home in a matter of days. Cable broadband networks not only withstood this sudden surge in internet usage; they excelled. percent of U.S.

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Nord Security, the startup behind NordVPN, raises its first-ever funding, $100M at a $1.6B valuation

TechCrunch

VPN usage has surged in the last several years, with growing concerns over data privacy and security — and sometimes completely different motivations like people wanting to access content otherwise blocked in their regions — driving an estimated 30% of all internet consumers globally to use a VPN at some point this year.

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Identity Based Internet Protocol (IBIP): A network security innovation developed at The MITRE Corporation

CTOvision

Editor’s note: I’ve referenced before my participation on the board of Centripetal Networks , and their ability to deliver large scale commercial solutions of MITRE’s IBIP are an area I am particularly proud of. This means, for the first time, a means can be put in place to prevent covert tunnels in enterprise networks.

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David Patterson Biography

The Crazy Programmer

David was the top fundraiser from 2006 to 2012. Article – the design of XPRS Article – the case for Networks of Workstations. Contributions in the Field of the Internet. David likes soccer, mountain biking, body surfing, and weight lifting in his spare time. He always convinced the students to teamwork.

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Samsara: Internet connected sensors enabling smart, scalable, managed IoT

CTOvision

Breakthroughs in semiconductors are making sensors smaller and radically cheaper, and wireless Internet connectivity is becoming ubiquitous. Yet traditional enterprise-scale sensor systems still require complex infrastructure, from hard-wired networks to servers, middleware, and custom code. Research Team.

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Microsoft’s February 2020 Patch Tuesday Addresses 99 CVEs Including Internet Explorer Zero-Day (CVE-2020-0674)

Tenable

This month’s updates include patches for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office Service and Web Apps, Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool and Windows Surface Hub. Windows Server 2012. Server 2012 R2. Date Released. Windows 10.

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Collabio lets you co-edit documents without the cloud

TechCrunch

Document collaborating will be possible from anywhere in the future, not only (as now) via a local network: A major release slated for next month will add p2p collaboration that works via the Internet — but still without the privacy risk of having a remote server in the loop. How will that forthcoming functionality work?

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