Cloudflare DNS Goes Down Taking A Big Chunk of the Internet Down Good news and bad news. For companies like Shopify, League of Legends and Politico, among many others, Friday afternoon gave you a headache. You outsourced your DNS to Cloudflare and they had a burp. The good news is that because they are Cloudflare […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Digicert to Incinerate 50,000 Certificates this Weekend Due to a process failure, Digicert is going to invalidate about 50,000 SSL (TLS) certificates this weekend. This is happening with only 5 days notice. If Digicert is your certificate provider, make sure that your certificate is not one that is going into the bonfire. Credit: The Register […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple Likely to Make Charger, Earphones Extra on Next iPhone Before everyone goes crazy, first this is a rumor – a likely accurate rumor, but a rumor, and second, it is likely aligned with the EU’s directive to reduce electronic waste. Your old charger and old earphones probably still work and if, say, 50% of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Anonymous Gonna Rise Again. Question Mark? A hacker or hackers claiming to be affiliated the non-group Anonymous has posted a million documents coming from over 200 police departments and other law enforcement agencies. While the documents do no purport to show illegal activities, they are likely both embarrassing and also confidential. The fact that the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Akamai Sees Largest DDoS Attack Ever Cloudflare says that one of its customers was hit with a 1.44 terabit per second denial of service attack. A second attack topped 500 megabits per second. The used a variety of amplification techniques that required some custom coding on Akamai’s part to control, but the client was able […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers Have Access to iOS 14 Months Before You Will Apple gives developers early prototypes of their new software so that Apple doesn’t have a disaster on its hands when the new software is released and user’s applications no longer work. Unfortunately, some developers sell those phones – or at least access to them – […]
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