{"id":5387,"date":"2016-11-13T08:10:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T14:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=5387"},"modified":"2016-11-27T17:59:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T23:59:56","slug":"thebrotherswisp-36-telecom-mergers-hidden-system-accounts-brocade-hex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=5387","title":{"rendered":"TheBrothersWISP 36 &#8211; Telecom Mergers, Hidden System Accounts, Brocade, hEX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thebrotherswisp.com\/index.php\/thebrotherswisp-36-telecom-mergers-hidden-system-accounts-brocade-hex\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thebrotherswisp.com\/wp-content\/themes\/response\/images\/responselogo.png\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"428\" height=\"42\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week has Greg, Mike, and Tomas(just before he caught a flight), doing a little news updating.  We spoke a lot about telecom providers acquiring each other, and why we think it may be happening(spoiler alert, we complain about it hehe).  We also talk a little about hardware and security.<\/p>\n<p>Topics include:<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.iancaling.com\/post\/153011925478\/trango-systems-hidden-root-account-vulnerability\">Trango hidden root account<\/a><\/li>\n<li>WISP-Router closed up shop<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virtual_Extensible_LAN\">Baicells supporting VXLAN<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.centurylink.com\/news\/centurylink-to-acquire-level-3-communications\">Cambium ePMP to support MAC-Telnet\/MAC-SSH<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.centurylink.com\/news\/centurylink-to-acquire-level-3-communications\">Centurylink to acquire L3 $34B in cash<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telecomramblings.com\/2016\/11\/crown-castle-makes-another-fiber-move-buys-fpl-fibernet\/\">Crown Castle buys FPL FiberNet $1.5B<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telecomramblings.com\/2016\/11\/gtcr-buy-inteliquent-combine-onvoy\/\">Private Equity buys Intelliquent (former Neutral Tandem, GTT bought the IP network)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telecomramblings.com\/2016\/11\/centurylink-sells-data-centers\/\">CenturyLink sells DataCenters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telecomramblings.com\/2016\/11\/windstream-earthlink-combine\/\">Windstream buys Earthlink<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telecomramblings.com\/2016\/11\/gtt-strikes-acquire-hibernia-networks\/\">GTT buys Hibernia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telecomramblings.com\/2016\/11\/lumos-finds-target-acquire-clarity\/\">Lumos buys Clarity<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tomas Slovakian Outage<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=5383\">Mikrotik hEX V3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2fceZnI\">Broadcom acquiring Brocade<\/a><\/li>\n<p>Keep contacting us: contactus (at) thebrotherswisp.com or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thebrotherswisp\">https:\/\/facebook.com\/thebrotherswisp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thebrotherswisp.com\/index.php\/thebrotherswisp-36-telecom-mergers-hidden-system-accounts-brocade-hex\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thebrotherswisp.com\/wp-content\/themes\/response\/images\/responselogo.png\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"428\" height=\"42\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week has Greg, Mike, and Tomas(just before he caught a flight), doing a little news updating. 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