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.
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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.
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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.
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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...Read more
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...Read more
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...Read more
Central Vermont Medical Center (CVMC) is a community medical center that includes Central Vermont Hospital, Woodridge Rehabilitation and Nursing, the National Life Cancer Treatment Center and a variety of Medical Group Practices.
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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...Read more
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.
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Security attacks on Apple products are on the rise, according to computer security firm SentinalOne, and likely to increase on 2015.
Call it the double-edged sword of success. As desktops running Mac OS and devices running iOS become ever more...Read more
