September 2014 – Insinuator.net

September 27, 2014 by Enno Rey

“Hacking for a B33r” at Ghent

This is a guest post by Antonios Atlasis.

This week I had the pleasure to attend BruCON 2014. While participating at the Brucon 5×5 program, I had also the chance to attend this well-known European Con which is held in the beautiful city of Ghent.

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Misc

September 20, 2014 by Enno Rey

Security Implications of Disruptive Technologies

Yesterday I gave a talk with the above title in a private setting. Given it might be of interest for some of you, the slides can be found here.

Have a great weekend everybody

Enno

Building

September 3, 2014 by Enno Rey

MLD and Neighbor Discovery. Are They Related?

This is a guest post from Antonios Atlasis.

Today we had the opportunity at ERNW to have a full-day discussion about MLD. The discussion was led by Jayson Salazar who writes his thesis on the topic.

For the newcomers to IPv6 world, the purpose of MLD, a subprotocol of IPv6, as defined in RFC 2710, is “to enable each IPv6 router to discover the presence of multicast listeners (that is, nodes wishing to receive multicast packets) on its directly attached links, and to discover specifically which multicast addresses are of interest to those neighboring nodes.” MLD was updated by MLDv2 in RFC 3810 in order to “add the ability for a node to report interest in listening to packets with a particular multicast address only from specific source addresses or from all sources except for specific source addresses.”

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