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F5, Inc.
Company blog · f5.com/labs/articlessecurityweb
F5, Inc. is the company blog at f5.com, writing about security and web. Since 2010, 62 different Hacker News readers have linked it 80 times, most often “Kazakhstan Attempts to MITM Its Citizens”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Most-linked posts?
- Kazakhstan Attempts to MITM Its Citizens5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-08-04
- F5 Acquires Nginx4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-03-11
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-20
- /resources/white-papers/the-myth-of-network-address-translation-as-security2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-07-26
- /services/resources/white-papers/the-myth-of-network-address-translation-as-security2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-23
- /resources/white-papers/the-myth-of-network-address-translation-as-security2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-21
What Hacker News says?
A quick glance at USPTO and https://www.f5.com/company/policies/trademarks confirms this.
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on “Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork”Submitted Kazakhstan Attempts to MITM Its Citizens as a story · 26 points
HN discussionI guess this[1] image from the F5 article gives an idea of where nginx fits from their perspective. F5 is a huge company (4000~ employees) that already likely has thousands of boxes running nginx. If you're going to continue using nginx as a critical piece of your business you might as well secure its future. [1]: https://www.f5.com/content/dam/f5-com/page-assets-en/home-en...
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on “Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks”Submitted F5 Acquires Nginx as a story · 9 points
HN discussion"F5 is committed to continued innovation and increasing investment in the NGINX open source project to empower NGINX’s widespread user communities." from https://www.f5.com/company/news/press-releases/f5-acquires-n... what do we know of F5 history in open source?
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on “Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks”Submitted The State of Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) on the Web as a story · 7 points
HN discussionAcquired for $670 million https://www.f5.com/company/news/press-releases/f5-acquires-n...
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on “Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks”Submitted Nginx / Nginx Plus High Performance Cookbook (2021) [pdf] as a story · 5 points
HN discussionF5 side of the press release: https://www.f5.com/company/news/press-releases/f5-acquires-n...
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on “Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks”Submitted Avoiding the top Nginx configuration mistakes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAccording to the F5 telemetry report (and my own anecdotal evidence), non-PFS suites were a lot more popular than that, the majority as little as 5 years ago :-) [0]: https://www.f5.com/content/dam/f5/f5-labs/articles/20180423_...
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on “RSA is a fragile cryptosystem”Submitted Why DNS Load Balancing Is Still a Necessity as a story · 3 points
HN discussionF5 Networks | Global, Corp in Seattle WA | Full-Time, Onsite/Remote | https://www.f5.com/ F5 Networks, Inc. is a global company that specializes in application services and application delivery networking (ADN). F5 technologies focus on the delivery, security, performance, and availability of web applications, as well as the availability of servers, cloud resources, data storage devices, and other networking compone…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)”Submitted BIG-IP and BIG-IQ critical vulnerabilities announced as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNGinx is owned by F5 Networks [1]. F5 customers could probably open a case and ask what contingency plans are in place. [1] - https://www.f5.com/company/news/press-releases/f5-completes-...
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on “Police conducted search in the Nginx office due to a copyright claim”Submitted Turing in His Grave: What Human Captcha Solvers Reveal About Control Design as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's coming from a F5 script, which is a company that sells anti-bot protection amid other things. (It's coming from obfuscated script at /TSPD, which is a F5 thing.) https://www.f5.com/
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on “Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?”Submitted F5 to Acquire Shape Security for $1B as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://www.f5.com/labs/articles/threat-intelligence/genesis...
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on “Hackers used Slack to break into EA Games”Submitted F5 Acquires Nginx as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI would guess an EA employee or contractor device had a bot installed that was harvesting data (e.g., cookies). Check out this article on how Genesis Market allows bot herders to monetize this data : https://www.f5.com/labs/articles/threat-intelligence/genesis...
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on “Hackers used Slack to break into EA Games”Submitted Zealot: Apache Struts Campaign Uses Eternal 2 Mine Monero on Internal Networks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionExpensive commercial appliances like the popular f5 big ip's can, and that is what a lot of large-scale websites use: http://www.f5.com/glossary/load-balancer/ In terms of open source, HAProxy has layer 7 algorithms but they are much simpler: http://cbonte.github.com/haproxy-dconv/configuration-1.5.htm... If you were inclined, you could write an algorithm to implement something similar in one of the open source rout…
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on “Heroku - Bamboo Routing Performance”Submitted Nginx Tutorial: Using OpenTelemetry Tracing to Understand Microservices (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe KZ government PKI has had quite the history: - Kazakhstan man-in-the-middle attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan_man-in-the-middle_a... - "Certificate cannot be trusted" warning in Kazakhstan https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/certificate-cannot-be-t... - Kazakhstan Attempts to MITM Its Citizens https://www.f5.com/labs/articles/threat-intelligence/kazakhs...
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on “Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company?”Submitted Beyond the C as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNAT being a security feature is a myth[1][2][3]. Please stop saying this. > but now you're effectively duplicating NAT in IPv6 No, you are not. If you set up a firewall there still is no translation in IPv6, and it's not needed because the network is end-to-end connected. > even stupider and nastier than the existing stupid and nasty NAT solutions. NAT is expensive for both memory and CPU usage, particularly when th…
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on “IPv6 Adoption”Submitted F5's Nginx Controller Accelerates Delivery of Modern Applications as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere is a SilverLine by F5 Networks: https://f5.com/products/platforms/silverline/f5-silverline-d... .
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on “FastMail under DDoS Attack”Submitted Breach causes year after year? Same old, same old: web injections and phishing as a story · 2 points
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