East Coast Feeling Effect of Denial of Service Attack
Been having trouble getting around the Net today? You're not alone. The eastern part of the United States is being affected by today's second distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. William Turton from Gizmodo provides more details. Read full article
Don't Have a Yahoo Email Address and Think You're Safe from the Hack?
Via Graham Cluley | @gcluley As we should all know by now, Yahoo announced recently it had been massively hacked. Think you're safe because you don't have a Yahoo! account? Think again. Read full article
2016 Cybersecurity Report (for Pizza Only)
Via Jon Hendren | @fart Something often overlooked in cybersecurity reporting is that criminals don’t just target banks, governments and huge businesses — that’s Hollywood. Read the full article.
Keeping Your Online Accounts Safe
With security breaches becoming a common occurrence, how can we feel safe that our digital lives won't fall victim to the next breach to hit the news? The Sad Truth About Security In today's highly connected world, there is almost no way to guarantee security. Security is a moving target. It's a race between those with sensitive data and those...
Drown attack sinks SSL security
Via Cliff Saran | @cliffsaran Researchers have published a paper outlining how an attacker could crack the TLS security protocol to gain access to millions of secure websites. The cross-protocol attack, known as DROWN (Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption), performs live attacks on TLS, one of the main protocols used for security on the...
Flash in the cross hairs
Adobe Flash has been an endagered technology for a number of years, but now the call for its elimination are growing very loud. Last week Mozilla blocked the plug-in in the Firefox browser. "Adobe has tried hard over the years to improve Flash, and it has become much more responsive at dealing with security issues," says security blogger Graham...
VENOM bug
A new web server vulnerability called VENOM was announced yesterday, but customers of Signal's web hosting are safe. Virtualized Environment Neglected Operations Manipulation (VENOM) can affect so-called "virtual" machines, many of which may operate on a single physical server. The bug can allow a ne'er-do-well to potentially escape the confirms of a...
Google revamps CAPTCHAs
Well, it was only a matter of time. Google tells us most CAPTCHAs — those little tests we're required to pass online in order to prove we're actually human beings by interpreting squiggly text — can mostly be defeated now by clever computers. But it's rolling out a new improved system that's easier on humans and apparently offers better protection...