Get to Know ALLO: Network Operations

NOC NOC! Who’s there? A whole team of fiber experts responsible for keeping our network in order and consuming, what we believe to be, a record amount of breakfast burritos in a single morning. This ALLO team is known as the NTAC (Network Technical Assistance Center) crew, and they’re known to handle a list of…

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VPNFilter Attack & ALLO

Recently, there’s been a lot of news coverage regarding a new botnet called VPNFilter. This attack has resulted in a series of slightly panicked phone calls to our support team, so we’d like to calm your fears and dig into why you’re safe with ALLO. First – what’s a botnet? It’s a network of private computers…

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Cookie Poisoning

What do cookies have to do with someone gaining access to your bank account? Everything. Hackers spend countless hours on the Internet listening and looking at Internet traffic in an attempt to intercept your cookies. A cookie, in this sense, is a small piece of information, usually in text format, that is downloaded to your…

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