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Post-quantum readiness for TLS at Meta

Engineering at Meta

In the future, significant advances in quantum computing will make it possible for adversaries to decrypt stored data that was encrypted using today’s cryptosystems. How Meta is enabling PQC Meta’s TLS protocol library, Fizz , is designed for high security, reliability, and performance.

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Weekend Reads 110124

Rule 11

Do you want to analyse decrypted TLS traffic in Wireshark or let an Intrusion Detection System (IDS), like Suricata, Snort or Zeek, inspect the application layer data of potentially malicious TLS encrypted traffic? Which protocols are used? As I suspected, its a bit more complex than just seeing a single known protocol like HTTPS.

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23 Good-To-Know Networking Acronyms and Abbreviations

CATO Networks

Source: Market Trends: How to Win as WAN Edge and Security Converge Into the Secure Access Service Edge, 29 July 2019, Joe Skorupa, Neil MacDonald VPN Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions provide an encrypted link between a network and a remote user or network.

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Cato CTRL Threat Research: Sophisticated Data Exfiltration Tools Used in Double Extortion Ransomware Attacks by Hunters International and Play 

CATO Networks

Executive Summary Modern ransomware attacks have evolved beyond simple encryption to deploy sophisticated double extortion tactics. Threat actors now systematically exfiltrate sensitive data before encrypting systems, ensuring leverage even when victims have robust data backups.

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A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents

Kentik

Disruptions and attacks caused by BGP incidents In BGP parlance, the term “routing leak” broadly refers to a routing incident in which one or more BGP advertisements are propagated between ASes in a way they were not intended to.

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The Visibility Challenge for Network Overlays

Kentik

Unfortunately, packet capture is becoming less feasible with the abstraction of networks via overlays and encryption. The challenge is that each of these network overlay technologies requires a new or modified set of tools capable of understanding the protocols, security, and routing of packets in these new layers.

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Record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack and global DDoS trends for 2024 Q4

CloudFaire

They are part of the HTTP protocol and allow communication between clients (such as browsers) and servers. Only 6% was plaintext HTTP (not encrypted). The BitTorrent protocol is a communication protocol used for peer-to-peer file sharing. The GET method is most commonly used.