Archive for April 2018

4 Vital Tips for Getting the Most Out of Traceroute

https://blog.paessler.com/4-vital-tips-for-getting-the-most-out-of-traceroute Anyone – even users with zero networking experience – can run a traceroute. All you need is a command prompt and a destination device. Yet, despite how easy it is to use, its results are often misunderstood. To be able to make good use of traceroute for network troubleshooting, you need to understand two

WTF is GDPR?

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/20/wtf-is-gdpr/ GDPR is a significant piece of legislation whose full impact will clearly take some time to shake out. A major point of note right off the bat is that GDPR does not merely apply to EU businesses; any entities processing the personal data of EU citizens need to comply. The extra-territorial scope of GDPR

The history of term ‘open source’

https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source-software On February 3, is the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the term “open source software“. This article tells the story how this term started to replace term “free software”.

Cyber security April 2018

This posting is here to collect security alert news in April 2018. I post links to security vulnerability news to comments of this article.  

IEEE Standard to Rate the Trustworthiness of News Sites

http://theinstitute.ieee.org/resources/standards/ieee-standard-to-rate-the-trustworthiness-of-news-sites Can a new IEEE standard help to fight “fake news”? Reputable news outlets are looking for ways to stem the spread of false and misleading articles. The IEEE Standards Association is trying to help readers detect such content with its new IEEE P7011 Standard for the Process of Identifying and Rating the Trustworthiness of