The Internet Stops On A Dyn
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| The Internet Stops On A Dyn | |
| Number | 2884 |
| Broadcast Date | OCTOBER 21, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 41:39 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
| Guests | Darren Kitchen, Len Peralta |
Multiple websites got knocked off the Internet Friday because of a DDoS against Dyn. What’s that even mean? Darren Kitchen explains to Tom Merritt while Len Peralta illustrates.
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Top Stories
- Microsoft reports rising revenues thanks to Office, Surface, and cloud services
- Microsoft’s Cloud Buoys Earnings
- Microsoft announced it earned $0.76 per share in Q3 on revenue of $22.33 billion, both on an adjusted basis. Analysts had expected adjusted earnings per share of $0.68 and revenue of $21.7 billion. Office commercial revenue rose 5 percent, and Office consumer revenue grew 8 percent. Intelligent cloud revenue jumped 8 percent, including Azure revenue shooting up 116 percent, and server revenue up 11 percent. Revenue from the personal computing division fell 2% on the year, with phone revenue in particular falling 72%. Surface revenue hit $926 million in the quarter, up 38 percent from the $672 million last year.
- Facebook will launch an international ad campaign starting Sunday night in the UK to promote Facebook Live. While the service was launched with exclusive access for celebrities, the ads will feature videos from average users. The first phase will be 15 second ads all starting with the countdown used by Facebook Live. On Monday November 7 the second phase will feature ads showing how to go live including billboards and bus stop ads with a list of steps.
- Bloomberg reports senior executives at AT&T and Time Warner ave been meeting to discuss business strategies, one of which was possibly merging the companies. The Wall Street Journal says the talks are in an advanced stage and a deal could come quickly. AT&T owns DirecTV but does not own a major content producer.
- According to a Thursday court filing in the case against NSA contractor Thomas Martin III, investigators seized 50 TB of data some of which was "national defense information." Prosecutors said Martin would soon be charged with violations of the Espionage Act. The new filing indicates Martin took six bankers boxes full of paper documents marked secret or top secret dating from 1996 through 2016. The New York Times reported Wednesday that investigators have yet to connect Martin to the "Shadow Brokers" dump of NSA exploits. In a late Thursday evening court filing Martin's defense team asked for him to be released on bail saying there is no evidence he intended to betray his country.
- A privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel referred to as CVE-2016-5195, appears to be actively and maliciously exploited in the wild. The bug which was patched this week exists in the past nine years of Linux Kernels. Administrators of Linux systems are strongly advised to patch the kernel as soon as possible.
Discussion
- What We Know About Friday’s Massive East Coast Internet Outage
- Major DDoS attack knocks Twitter, Reddit, Spotify offline
- DoS attack on major DNS provider brings Internet to morning crawl
- Reuters Top News on Twitter: "BREAKING: U.S. government probing whether east coast internet attack was a 'criminal act' - official"
- Cyber attacks disrupt PayPal, Twitter, other sites
- The Possible Vendetta Behind the East Coast Web Slowdown
- Mikko Hypponen (@mikko) | Twitter
- Hacker Lexicon: What Are DoS and DDoS Attacks?
Messages
- I have a company that makes solar power for drones that can extend battery power all day long. We see the next markets to enter be wearables and IoT because charging hurts customers stickiness and allows devices be really disconnected. We can't really keep up entirely with a smartphone, but we see a large value add in the wearable space being able to maintain charge on lower power draw devices with just half an hour outside, or IoT devices indefinitely on indoor light.
- Sent by Jason
- The basketball thing holds no interest for me but if you could get the NFL and i could pick my patriots in house announcers the wife and i would save up for that.
We have a kid and the wife loves the seahawks so this would work for my family as nfc division plays the afc division on a once every 4 year rotation and only once a year. Minus the superbowl we'd be in goodshape.
Go Pats. Roger Goodell and Indy and their deflategate crap can kiss our four rings. Id say more but I'll go on for pages. - Sent by Joe the other Pilot
- The basketball thing holds no interest for me but if you could get the NFL and i could pick my patriots in house announcers the wife and i would save up for that.
- Hey DTNS Crew
During the discussion of Google's Coldline announcement Tom said he really wanted the system to function the way Patrick imagined it with robots fetching the tapes.
I wanted to pass on that a system like that exists! Or rather it did back in the days of video tape playback. I work at a station that used to have a massive machine made by Sony called the LMS (Library Management System). The machine had a stack of 8 BetaCAM machines on the left and then stacks and stacks of tape slots to the right. Each tape had a commercial or show on it. You would check tapes in and put a barcode on the back. When that show or commercial was needed a robotic arm would zip over, grab the tape, then zip back to a deck and load it in.
It would do this over and over during a commercial break. It was awesome to watch it fly around, especially when it occasionally dropped a tape.
Here's a picture of a LMS. They varied in size based on "storage", maxed out at 1024 tapes. - Sent by Don Potito
- Hey DTNS Crew
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