UK government: Data encryption needs to be limited

The UK government is expected to unveil new measures that will compel organizations to limit the use of undecipherable encryption.

In a speech to Parliament today (November 4th), the home secretary, Theresa May, will argue that there needs to be ways of accessing end-to-end encryption in the most serious of cases.

UK government: Data encryption needs to be limited

AVT-PR-Avnet Boosts Global IoT Services Offering in the Americas with

PHOENIX – Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), a leading global technology distributor, today announced a new agreement in the Americas with Aeris, a provider of complete IoT and M2M network solutions. Avnet can now offer customers in all IoT markets – including automotive, fleet, health care, utilities, industrial and telematics – a unified platform to manage cellular connectivity across LTE, GSM and CDMA networks.

The Aeris platform provides a single point of access to a network of over 500 carriers globally and gives users the ability to control and manage end devices across different cellular technologies, ensuring efficient data usage, future deployment planning, improved profitability and customer satisfaction.



AVT-PR-Avnet Boosts Global IoT Services Offering in the Americas with

Why Offering Free WiFi to Your Customers is Wise

The Internet of Things is right upon us.

Google is updating the search engine algorithms to favor mobile-friendly websites.

Today, people are making more use of the Internet while on the go and thus, they expect to access the WiFi hotspots while they are on the move.

Why Offering Free WiFi to Your Customers is Wise

How to test and fix IPv6 fragmentation issues

In an earlier blog post, I discussed the issues associated with IPv6 packet fragmentation. Of particular significance, IPv6 fragmentation relies extensively on the computer sourcing packets being able to receive ICMPv6 “packet too big” message type 2 sent from any intermediate device in the route to the packet’s destination.

The capability to confirm that an end user in a network will correctly receive the packet-too-big ICMPv6 message has been added to the test-ipv6 mirrors, including http://test-ipv6.arbor.net. This new capability allows a user to identify if the packet-too-big message is being discarded between the user’s computer and the web site.

How to test and fix IPv6 fragmentation issues

A Tale of Shifu and its Attempt to Bypass FortiSandbox | Fortinet Blog

Over the last few months, the Shifu banking Trojan has become more common in the wild prevalent and the malware family has been getting a fair amount of attention both from researchers and the mainstream media. there have been a number of discussions surrounding the malware family. We also became aware that this malware attempts to bypass our sandbox technology, FortiSandbox. In this post, we will share some of our findings on this new banking Trojan and also talk about how our technologies can support and address Shifu.



A Tale of Shifu and its Attempt to Bypass FortiSandbox | Fortinet Blog

New Mobile Facebook Tab Adds Tons of Notifications

Facebook has once again upped its game, this time with a major upgrade of the Facebook notifications tab in its mobile app.

The expanded and personalized Facebook notifications tab is now more of a you-centric news feed than ever, sucking some of the best widgets from the sidebar on desktop while giving notifications an easy to navigate and structured appearance.

New Mobile Facebook Tab Adds Tons of Notifications

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