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Im making an attempt to get pinging/telnet enabled for a sure port so i can get by from outdoors to inside or vise versa. Simply making an attempt to determine the configuration to get there.
I’ve made my inside community and my outdoors community.
Firewall mannequin is Cisco 5520 ASA
ciscoasa# sh access-lis
access-list cached ACL log flows: whole 0, denied 0 (deny-flow-max 4096)
alert-interval 300
access-list 101; 4 components; title hash: 0xe7d586b5
access-list 101 line 1 prolonged allow icmp any any echo-reply (hitcnt=0) 0x0309 01cd
access-list 101 line 2 prolonged allow icmp any any source-quench (hitcnt=0) 0x8 bddfde8
access-list 101 line 3 prolonged allow icmp any any unreachable (hitcnt=0) 0x89d 18f69
access-list 101 line 4 prolonged allow icmp any any time-exceeded (hitcnt=0) 0x1 2127ce7
access-list outside_access_in; 5 components; title hash: 0x6892a938
access-list outside_access_in line 1 prolonged allow icmp object outside3560 obj ect inside3560 (hitcnt=0) 0x4f1148e6
access-list outside_access_in line 1 prolonged allow icmp host 192.168.2.21 ho st 192.168.1.11 (hitcnt=0) 0x4f1148e6
access-list outside_access_in line 2 prolonged allow icmp object outside3560 obj ect inside3560 object-group ping (hitcnt=0) 0xc892322e
access-list outside_access_in line 2 prolonged allow icmp host 192.168.2.21 ho st 192.168.1.11 echo (hitcnt=0) 0x8d896526
access-list outside_access_in line 2 prolonged allow icmp host 192.168.2.21 ho st 192.168.1.11 echo-reply (hitcnt=0) 0xd3bb9910
access-list outside_access_in line 3 prolonged allow icmp object outside23560 ob ject inside35602 object-group ping (hitcnt=0) 0xa79083e6
access-list outside_access_in line 3 prolonged allow icmp host 192.168.2.21 ho st 192.168.1.12 echo (hitcnt=0) 0xca21b676
access-list outside_access_in line 3 prolonged allow icmp host 192.168.2.21 ho st 192.168.1.12 echo-reply (hitcnt=0) 0x5ca247e8
access-list inside; 1 components; title hash: 0x45467dcb
access-list inside line 1 prolonged allow icmp host 192.168.1.11 host 192.168.2. 21 (hitcnt=0) 0x00b26fe3
access-list outdoors; 1 components; title hash: 0x1a47dec4
access-list outdoors line 1 prolonged allow icmp host 192.168.2.21 host 192.168.1 .11 (hitcnt=0) 0x4310bc47
3560 Inside change:
L3Switch1#sh run
Constructing configuration...
Present configuration : 1542 bytes
!
model 12.2
no service pad
service timestamps debug uptime
service timestamps log uptime
no service password-encryption
!
hostname L3Switch1
!
!
no aaa new-model
system mtu routing 1500
ip subnet-zero
!
!
!
!
no file confirm auto
spanning-tree mode pvst
spanning-tree lengthen system-id
!
vlan inner allocation coverage ascending
!
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/2
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/3
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/4
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/5
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/6
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/7
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/8
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/9
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/10
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/11
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/12
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/13
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/14
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/15
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/16
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/17
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/18
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/19
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/20
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/21
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/22
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/23
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/24
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/25
switchport entry vlan 10
switchport mode entry
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/26
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/27
switchport entry vlan 10
switchport mode entry
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/28
!
interface Vlan1
no ip deal with
!
interface Vlan10
ip deal with 192.168.1.11 255.255.255.0
!
ip classless
ip http server
!
!
!
control-plane
!
!
line con 0
line vty 0 4
password cisco
login
line vty 5 15
login
!
finish
3560 outdoors change:
TransitSw# sh run
Constructing configuration...
Present configuration : 1839 bytes
!
model 12.2
no service pad
service timestamps debug uptime
service timestamps log uptime
no service password-encryption
!
hostname TransitSw
!
!
no aaa new-model
system mtu routing 1500
vtp mode clear
ip subnet-zero
!
!
!
!
no file confirm auto
spanning-tree mode pvst
spanning-tree lengthen system-id
!
vlan inner allocation coverage ascending
!
vlan 10
title inside-vlan
!
vlan 20,30,40,112-113
!
vlan 210
title netmon
!
vlan 439
title radio
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/2
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/3
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/4
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/5
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/6
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/7
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/8
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/9
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/10
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/11
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/12
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/13
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/14
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/15
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/16
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/17
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/18
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/19
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/20
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/21
switchport entry vlan 10
switchport mode entry
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/22
switchport entry vlan 10
switchport mode entry
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/23
switchport entry vlan 10
switchport mode entry
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/24
!
interface Vlan1
no ip deal with
no ip route-cache
!
interface Vlan10
ip deal with 192.168.1.12 255.255.255.0
no ip route-cache
!
interface Vlan20
ip deal with 192.168.20.14 255.255.255.0
no ip route-cache
!
interface Vlan30
ip deal with 192.168.30.14 255.255.255.0
no ip route-cache
!
interface Vlan40
ip deal with 192.168.40.14 255.255.255.0
no ip route-cache
!
ip http server
!
control-plane
!
!
line con 0
line vty 0 4
password cisco
login
line vty 5 15
login
!
finish
Information aggregator Nationwide Public Information (NPD) has lastly confirmed a breach that has uncovered private identification information belonging to doubtlessly a whole lot of tens of millions of customers throughout the US, UK, and Canada.
In a assertion that provided little particulars, the Coral Springs, Fla.-based firm acknowledged what quite a few others have reported in current days a couple of “third-party unhealthy actor” accessing knowledge from NPDs databases someday in April 2024. The corporate described the information which the menace actor accessed as together with full names, electronic mail addresses, cellphone numbers, Social Safety numbers, and mailing addresses belonging to an unknown variety of individuals.
Actual and Correct Information
NPD’s advisory contained the same old boilerplate language concerning the firm taking steps to guard towards an analogous incident however left it fully as much as victims to take measures to guard themselves towards ID theft and different fraud ensuing from its safety lapse. NPD is an information aggregator that claims companies, personal investigators, human assets departments, and staffing companies use its knowledge for background checks, to acquire legal information and different makes use of.
Information of the breach has been circulating since not less than April when Darkish Internet Intelligence posted on X about “USDoD” a hacker with a status for earlier knowledge heists, having obtained a database from NPD containing some 200 gigabytes of non-public data on residents within the US, UK, and Canada. The menace actor claimed the NPD database contained some 2.9 billon rows of information. Many have incorrectly reported that because the variety of victims as an alternative in characterizing the breach as one of many greatest ever of personal knowledge.
VX-underground, a neighborhood targeted on malware and cybercrime, reviewed the dataset and assessed the leaked knowledge as being “actual and correct” and containing the primary identify, final identify, SSN, present deal with, and addresses for people going again over 30 years. “It additionally allowed us to seek out their mother and father, and nearest siblings,” VX-underground mentioned. “We have been in a position to determine somebody’s mother and father, deceased family members, Uncles, Aunts, and Cousins.”
As well as, the NPD database comprises data on deceased people, a few of whom had been deceased greater than 20 years.
Troy Hunt, who maintains the “Have I Been Pwned” website, reported discovering 134 million distinctive electronic mail addresses and tens of millions of rows of legal information. He assessed the large dataset as containing a kludge of helpful knowledge (to criminals) in addition to ineffective, incorrect, and redundant knowledge that NPD seems to have constructed by scraping publicly out there knowledge from numerous — and now untraceable — sources.
A Must Cease Use of SSNs for ID Verification
The large breach has prompted the normal considerations concerning the want for organizations to implement stronger controls for shielding knowledge that buyers entrust to them. An Apple examine final yr discovered knowledge breaches compromised a staggering 2.5 billion client information in 2021 and 2022.
Nevertheless it has additionally resurfaced a long-standing sentiment amongst many concerning the want for organizations, authorities entities, and others to cease utilizing SSNs as the first identifier for just about any and all transactions.
“NPD ought to have carried out plenty of issues higher however there may be one factor that is on us: it is previous time to eliminate SSN,” says Ambuj Kumar, CEO of Simbian. Changing SSN with a digital ID much like what’s utilized in cryptography and in a know-how like Apple Pockets is comparatively straightforward and simple he says.
“The impediments are purely psychological and inertia,” Kumar says. “Consider a digital ID as a authorities issued bank card quantity that’s recognized solely to the federal government and the person,” he notes. “When making use of for a mortgage, for instance, a token is generated from the unique quantity and this new quantity is shared with the financial institution. If there’s a breach on the financial institution, the unique quantity remains to be secure for the reason that financial institution solely noticed the token.”
A Restrict to What Shoppers Can Do?
The breach has additionally targeted consideration on the bounds to what customers can do to guard their knowledge. Chris Deibler, vp of safety at DataGrail, says not one of the normal suggestions — similar to utilizing password managers, including multi-factor authentication, and taking note of accounts resets — would have helped within the NPD breach. The actual effort now has to return on the company and regulatory degree and extra effort must be targeted on disincentivizing mass knowledge aggregation.
“Firms do not reply to the identical stimuli as people, so advocating for higher schooling and letting the ethical arc of the universe do its factor in all probability is not going to chop it,” Deibler notes. “You want levers that truly change the dialog about knowledge assortment and dealing with danger on the board degree. In that context, companies reply to particular liabilities — reputational, civil, legal, existential.”
He argues that harmed events in an information breach have particular, statutorily outlined compensations out there to them that go nicely past only one yr’s price of free credit score monitoring. Equally, executives at corporations that knowingly put buyer knowledge in danger ought to share legal legal responsibility for a breach. “In probably the most egregious of circumstances, if you happen to mess up arduous on buyer knowledge, you shouldn’t be permitted to have the chance to take action once more, both on the company or particular person degree.”
Written by: Chris Arriola, Chiara Chiappini, and Chiko Shimizu
Do you know that you could not solely construct cellular apps with Jetpack Compose but additionally TV apps, Put on apps, and in addition Widgets? We advocate that you simply use Compose to construct UI for all these type components.
On this weblog submit, we’ll go over the work that we did to replace certainly one of our samples — Jetcaster — to help further type components. We’ll focus on the strategy we took so as to add help for different type components in a means that promotes code sharing and reusability so to do the identical in your software.
Jetcaster is a pattern podcast app which lets you view podcasts, subscribe to a couple, and play an episode from a podcast. Like lots of our different Compose samples, the first objective of Jetcaster is to exhibit the capabilities of constructing UI with Compose. So, something non-UI associated, akin to taking part in audio, is solely mocked.
Jetcaster was chosen out of the ten Compose pattern apps on GitHub to increase to further type components as media apps are usually helpful not simply on telephones, however on TV and Put on, too.
You should utilize Jetpack Compose to construct apps on cellular, TV, and Put on. You may as well use Jetpack Look to construct widgets with Compose-like syntax.
When constructing for a particular type issue, it’s essential to differentiate which precise Compose dependencies are vital. Use the checklist beneath as a information to widespread dependencies you want for a given type issue:
Cellular (Telephones, Giant Screens, Foldables, and Chrome OS)
androidx.compose.material3:material3 — Dependency offering Materials Design 3 parts
androidx.navigation:navigation-compose — Dependency for dealing with navigation between screen-level composables (additionally can be utilized by TV)
androidx.compose.ui:ui-tooling — Dependency for Compose previews (additionally can be utilized by TV)
androidx.compose.material3.adaptive:adaptive — Dependency offering layouts for creating adaptive UIs
TV
androidx.television:tv-material — TV dependency offering Materials Design 3 parts. This ought to be used as an alternative of the cellular dependency
androidx.television:tv-foundation — TV dependency offering extensions to the Basis library. This ought to be used as well as to the Compose Basis library
Put on OS
androidx.put on.compose:compose-material — Put on OS dependency offering Materials Design 2.5 parts. This ought to be used as an alternative of the cellular dependency
androidx.put on.compose:compose-navigation — Put on OS dependency for navigation. This ought to be used as an alternative of the cellular Navigation Compose library
androidx.put on.compose:compose-foundation — Put on OS dependency offering extensions to the Basis library. This ought to be used as well as to the Compose Basis library
androidx.put on.compose:compose-ui-tooling — Put on OS dependency for previews
Jetpack Compose consists of a variety of layers, offering totally different performance. For instance, UI parts tailor-made to totally different type components are offered by the Materials libraries for Cellular, TV, and Put on OS. These Materials libraries share the Compose basis layer and layers beneath. Compose basis gives the constructing blocks for setting up extra opinionated UI parts discovered within the Materials Compose libraries. However, Look relies on a decrease layer, the runtime layer, and gives a very totally different set of parts.
Compose on all Type Components libraries
Understanding how these dependencies are associated is essential for understanding the Compose code you’ll be able to share throughout totally different type components and what ought to be particular to a single type issue. Subsequent, let’s look into the challenge and module structure of Jetcaster.
Jetcaster initially had a single-module structure that solely focused cellular gadgets (a facet be aware: Jetcaster was optimized for foldables and even had customized logic for tabletop mode, however extra on that later). Step one was to interrupt this single-module structure into a number of modules to advertise code sharing (earlier than and after).
Jetcaster was modularized in order that core elements of the cellular app such because the area, knowledge, and design system layer, will be shared. Doing so avoids any duplication and in addition allows consistency throughout type components.
Finally, we determined to create 3 library modules which are shared by the applying (:cellular, :television and :put on) modules:
:core:knowledge — this module represents the knowledge layer containing repositories and networking and native persistence knowledge sources
:core:area — this module represents the area layer containing use instances and area objects
:core:designsystem — this module accommodates the design system together with colours, typographies, shapes, and shared composables
In addition to 2 testing-specific modules:
:core:data-testing— this module gives mock implementations for interfaces outlined within the knowledge layer
:core:domain-testing — this module gives mock knowledge for area fashions which have been useful to make use of in composable previews
The dependency graph for Jetcaster appears one thing like this:
Jetcaster dependency graph
Including new app modules
As soon as we had the library and testing modules arrange, including app modules akin to TV and Put on OS have been merely a matter of:
Creating a brand new module,
Including the shape factor-specific dependencies as talked about above, and
Creating the mandatory screens and flows for that particular type issue.
With this construction, Jetcaster can reuse the info layer and customary design components which made it quick to help an extra type issue. You confer with the pull requests that added Put on OS help, and TV help, to dive deeper.
Type factor-specific nuances
Whereas reusing as a lot code as doable is fascinating, most composables within the UI layer weren’t shared. As a substitute, every type issue might present a form-factor particular element which was used as an alternative. Taking lazy lists for example, cellular makes use of LazyColumn/LazyRow, whereas Put on makes use of ScalingLazyColumn (no equal lazy row is offered on Put on). Equally, TV additionally gives a handful of TV-specific parts within the tv-material library.
One query you would possibly then ask is that this: why was it vital to offer a special composable as an alternative of utilizing the identical composable all all through?
The reason being as a result of every type issue has particular UX and UI nuances.
For instance, on cellular UI interactions are generally completed by faucets and gestures. However, TV interactions are generally completed with a controller (utilizing a directional pad or arrow keys). As a result of these enter variations, the scrolling conduct when navigating with gestures versus utilizing a controller can be totally different (i.e. quick scrolling vs. center-focused scrolling). To account for this, TV provides TV-specific Materials parts which are optimized for controller-driven navigation.
Equally, Put on provides ScalingLazyColumn to extend the visibility of things on spherical screens by scaling and fading as gadgets enter/exit the display. Moreover, Put on helps rotary enter which may occur from a special supply relying on the machine: a rotating facet button, a bodily bezel, or a contact bezel.
It’s for this exact motive that totally different type components might have a special composable implementation of a UI idea.
There are, nonetheless, some situations the place UI parts will be shared. For Jetcaster, the parts which are shared throughout cellular, TV and Put on need to do with loading photographs over the community and dealing with HTML formatted textual content. In these use instances, the implementation is precisely the identical for all type components and thus could possibly be shared. Moreover, the parts wanted to implement these use instances solely rely on androidx.compose.basis, and layers beneath it, which all type factor-specific Compose APIs already rely on.
Jetcaster optimizes for giant screens within the following methods:
Through the use of a lazy grid as an alternative of a lazy column when displaying a listing of things, like within the house and podcast particulars display,
By adopting the supporting pane canonical structure to show 2 panes (main and secondary) when operating Jetcaster in expanded layouts.
Be aware that :cellular helps massive screens.
Utilizing grids
Displaying a grid as an alternative of a column is good for expanded screens. Doing so takes benefit of the extra display actual property permitting customers to view extra info and decreasing the variety of interactions required to make use of the app.
Modals have been an vital a part of web sites for 20 years. Stacking contents and utilizing fetch to perform duties are an effective way to enhance UX on each desktop and cell. Sadly most builders do not know that the HTML and JavaScript specs have applied a local modal system through the popover attribute — let’s test it out!
The HTML
Making a native HTML modal consists of utilizing the popovertarget attribute because the set off and the popover attribute, paired with an id, to determine the content material ingredient:
That is the contents of the popover
Upon clicking the button, the popover will open. The popover, nevertheless, won’t have a conventional background layer shade so we’ll must implement that on our personal with some CSS magic.
The CSS
Styling the contents of the popover content material is fairly commonplace however we are able to use the browser stylesheet selector’s pseudo-selector to fashion the “background” of the modal:
/* contents of the popover */
[popover] {
background: lightblue;
padding: 20px;
}
/* the dialog's "modal" background */
[popover]:-internal-popover-in-top-layer::backdrop {
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, .5);
}
:-internal-popover-in-top-layer::backdrop represents the “background” of the modal. Historically that UI has been a component with opacity such to point out the stacking relationship.
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