Telecom and Networking

LoRa and Sigfox in Finland

Today had some good news for Internet of Things (IoT) networking in Finland: There will be real competition in both technologies and business models. The news tells that company Connected Finland has received enough money (at the moment million Euros) to build national IoT network using Sigfox technology – so becomes the first nationwide IoT-operator

4 Ways to Reduce Internet Latency

http://blog.datapath.io/4-ways-to-reduce-internet-latency Network latency affects on-line sevices in many ways. As service designer there are some things you can do to reduce network latency.

Show Networks talk from The Eleventh HOPE

I have several times pointed to interesting material that is posted to Control Geek blog. Here is another good time to point you there. My Show Networks talk from The Eleventh HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) article tells that John Huntington’s Show Networks talk from The Eleventh HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) is now here on

NSA-Linked Group Hacked?

It seems like the NSA has been HACKED! But that might not be the truth. There has been many security news out on the message has NSA hacking group been hacked? It is hard to say for sure if that is true or not, but what seems to be true is that some of the

Linux TCP bug leaves sites vulnerable to serious hijacking attacks

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/linux-bug-leaves-usa-today-other-top-sites-vulnerable-to-serious-hijacking-attacks/ There is a serious problem in new TCP feature designed to prevent hacking: it makes possible to make easily man-in-the-middle type attacks from anywhere. Feature is built into Linux kernel 3.6-4.7 (patch on newest version available). https://www.rt.com/usa/355558-linux-vulnerability-websites-attacks/ At the symposium, the researchers demonstrated the exploit by injecting code into a live USA Today page