Category: Networking and Communication

Another day, another major internet outage. This time around, Google reported that it had experienced a global issue with its Google Cloud Platform (GCP) networking at 12:53 PM US Eastern

In 2021, you don’t have to wait for Black Friday to get great TV deals. Everyone is selling top-of-the-line televisions for excellent prices already. That’s because, in part, massive global

You know the non-profit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) for its Let’s Encrypt certificate authority, the most popular way of securing websites with TLS certificates. The group wants to do

Anyone can set up a Wi-Fi network. Setting up a 4G LTE or 5G network, that’s a different story. It took expensive, proprietary hardware from incumbent network equipment manufacturers. Now,

There’s rich — Amazon’s Jeff Bezos with not quite $200-billion and Microsoft’s Bill Gates with $132-billion — and then there’s Elon Musk rich: Approximately $241-billion. But, according to a note,

“Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?” Actually, if you use computers for pretty much anything, you do. Oh, you may not know it if

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are happening ever more often and growing ever bigger. At 2.4 terabits per second (Tbps), the DDoS attack Microsoft just successfully defended European Azure cloud

It took about six hours, a new record for Facebook downtime, but Facebook is finally back up. What happened? Here’s what we know so far. The old network troubleshooting saying is, when anything

Yesterday, I had a dozen — count ’em a dozen — spam calls. My carrier, Verizon, does a good job of marking most of them as spam, but it’s not

It used to be that we could do okay with less than 10 Megabits per second (Mbps) internet.  That was before we filled our evenings with streaming movies and TV