The recent DDoS attacks against many of the North American financial firms had some unique characteristics that put a strain on the defenses in place and resulted in a number of well publicized service outages. The escalating threat is not new. It’s been steadily building up over the last few years as botnet command and [...]
A major event took place in Sao Paulo, Brazil last month. No, I’m not referring to the Miss Universe Pageant that also happened at the same time at the Hilton in Sao Paulo. I’m referring to the Futurecom held at the Transamerica Expo. Futurecom is definitely the premier technology exposition in Brazil and in my [...]
IPv6 is one of the biggest topics of hallway conversations at the Austin, TX NANOG conference last week ranking right up there with “what I did last night” and “did you try the barbeque from xxxx?” The questions on many people’s lips are “What are you doing with IPv6″ and “when are you rolling it out?” [...]