The other day I read that Comcast is launching a new plan to turn home internet users into unwilling participants in their new global wifi strategy. I’m sure that they will soon be touting how insanely awesome it will be to get “full strength” internet access virtually anywhere just by subscribing to this service. Other […]
This post is going to be short and sweet as it’s something I meant to put up here when I found it sometime back in mid-2011. I’m not even sure if Time Warner is still using these Ubee cable modems for their RoadRunner offering, but I’m sure that there are at least a few people […]
I was having lunch with Charles Henderson from Trustwave Spider Labs the other day and he mentioned that he had just gotten signed up with the new Roadrunner Extreme Broadband Beta from Time Warner Cable. He mentioned insane download and upload speeds as well as the new DOCSIS 3.0 compliant modem. It was enough to […]
As I’m preparing to take my trip to New York for the OWASP AppSec Conference, I came across a timely article on the risks involved with using a hotel network. The Center for Hospitality Research at Cornell University surveyed 147 hotels and then conducted on-site vulnerability testing at 50 of those hotels. Approximately 20% of […]
Wireless internet access is everywhere these days. Everyone from restaurants and bars to the average Joe Homeowner has some sort of wifi network set up. The problem is that they set up these networks without giving security a second thought (or even a first thought in most cases). I was at the TRISC conference last month and heard […]
