Denial of Service attacks are a big deal now. Last week the attack against Dyn stopped people from accessing Twitter and hundreds of other busy web sites for hours. These attacks, called denial of service or distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have many computers send a lot of data at a web server until […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In case you still think that clicking on any of those shortened web page links (like http://bit.ly/4wx345) is a good idea, here comes the best reason ever NOT to click on those links. It appears that the Hillary Clinton email leak may have been caused by clicking on one of those stupid shortened URLs. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]OK, that subject, while true, was really just to catch your attention. Here is the rest of the story (and sorry, this is a bit of a rant). Google has a team that researches security vulnerabilities in all kinds of software. The team, founded in 2014, is called Project Zero. While I am sure it […]
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