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Wireshark – From Ethereal to Today

The story about Wireshark is entwined with the story of Gerald Combs, the inventor, founder and heart behind Wireshark. It was always Gerald’s dream to build an open source, world class network...

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How Much is My Information Worth on the Dark Web?

In the April 5, 2016 report by the Identity Threat Resourse Center (ITRC) there have been 227 breaches which have compromised 6,214,514 records containing personally identifiable information (PII)....

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SCADA/ICS – Are We Scared Yet?

Supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADA), or industrial control systems (ICS), have been monitoring and controlling our industrial, power and refinery world since the 1960s. Simply...

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Data at Risk Series: Healthcare Cyber Security - is Now Life or Death

In our first Data at Risk post about healthcare, we discussed the current state of security in the industry. After highlighting the key vulnerabilities for healthcare providers—the move to digital...

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Making the Switch: Serial Bus to Ethernet

There’s a lot of talk these days about Industrial Ethernet. What it is and what it is not. Part of the misunderstanding is that the standards are very simple, yet stringent. The simple part of...

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Fractal Networks Require a Focused and Flexible Foundation

Focused and flexible are sometimes opposites but these are required in today’s higher, almost quantum network speeds. Is 100G the end? Absolutely not. Are Fractal Networks possible?

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