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tHAWT Episode #168: Digital signatures

Posted Sunday, August 23, 2009 3:04 PM by thindson :: 0 Comments
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In this episode of the Hill Associates Week in Telecom (tHAWT), Mark and I are your hosts. The podsnack the episode ends with on the subject of digital signatures. This ties in with the last two episodes that covered certificates, certificate authorities, Read More...

tHAWT Episode #167: Certificate authority and root certificates

Posted Saturday, August 15, 2009 1:23 PM by thindson :: 0 Comments
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In this episode of the Hill Associates Week in Telecom (tHAWT), Mark and I run through some news of the week, which was mainly what was happening with a few of the telcos--Sprint/Clearwire, Telstra, FairPoint, etc. The links are below. We also capped Read More...

tHAWT Episode #166: What's a digital certificate?

Posted Sunday, August 09, 2009 7:39 PM by thindson :: 0 Comments
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In this episode of tHAWT, I am your host. I look at a few news items and finish with a podsnack on digital certificates. In the news was Twitter being down , which for those of you who have used Twitter for a while would say, that is not news, that's Read More...

tHAWT Episode #150: Convict us of disorganized crime

Posted Friday, April 17, 2009 4:25 PM by thindson :: 0 Comments
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This week's episode of tHAWT is another one of our solo sessions, this time with me in the driver's seat. The first news item I covered was a follow-up on the continuing saga of TWC and its Internet caps , which it decided was not a good idea Read More...

tHAWT Episode #148: Conficker quiet, but so was GhostNet for a long time

Posted Sunday, April 05, 2009 1:21 PM by thindson :: 0 Comments
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In this episode of tHAWT, Paul Whalen and Mark Steinberg discuss the week's news, and because this week was an April Fool's week there is always some skepticism about some of the stories that crop up. Something that was hyped up to be big this Read More...

tHAWT Episode #144: CIO and FCC head announced

Posted Friday, March 06, 2009 8:49 PM by thindson :: 0 Comments
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This week Mark flew solo. Mark first addresses the announcement of the White House CIO, Mr. Vivek Kundra, who is expected to lower the cost of government operations through appropriate use of technology. The links to other items Mark discusses are listed Read More...

PodSnacks: CHAP vs. PAP

Posted Wednesday, October 15, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Today, we continue the PPP -related series with a brief look at the Password Authentication Protocol (PAP) and the Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP). These are somewhat older authentication strategies that are becoming less important Read More...

PodSnacks: Password

Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Let's talk about passwords. In today's PodSnack, we bring back an oldy but goody: Gary Kessler. Gary now teaches at Champlain College, but he used to teach for us, and back then he created some of our ExperTech titles. Today's snack is an Read More...

PodSnacks: Hashing Function

Posted Friday, September 19, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Today we'll just put out a basic concept that is likely to feature prominently over the next few weeks. Our CEO asked every instructor in the company to create a few snacks for you, and a lot of the ones I have been getting appear to have a security Read More...

PodSnacks: Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)

Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Last Friday we looked at business continuity planning (BCP) and why it is so critical to today's organizations. A subset of BCP is the whole realm of Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP). In today's PodSnack, Michel and Mark explore DRP and discuss Read More...

PodSnacks: Business Continuity Planning (BCP)

Posted Friday, August 15, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Business disruptions can be catastrophic. If you think of a company (or any organization) as a small machine designed to take some set of resources, transform them, and deliver them to those who need or want them, then anything that can disrupt the performance Read More...

PodSnack: Trojan Horse

Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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It's been a while since we've covered security topics, so we're going to go back to that space today. In today's PodSnacks, Michel (that's me) explains what a Trojan Horse is, what it can do, and how to avoid them. By the way, we still Read More...

tHAWT Episode #118: Can 0 + 0 > 0?

Posted Sunday, August 10, 2008 7:46 PM by thindson :: 0 Comments
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For this episode, which fell on the start of the Summer Olympics 08/08/08, we have Mark , Michel and Myself . As well as the Olympics the Black Hat security conference was drawing to a close and there were still some more 2nd quarter numbers being released. Read More...

PodSnacks: Encryption Concepts

Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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We've talked a bit about security in some of our PodSnacks. Let's wander back to that area and spend a bit of time talking about encryption . Encryption is very important any time we are sending information that we want to keep private to places Read More...

PodSnacks: Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Our series on routing protocols is essentially complete, although we are likely to come back and fill in some technical details. We have some outstanding requests for information on MPLS and BGP. For now, however, let's go back to a few basics. In Read More...
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