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DDoS Attack Turns Off The Heat. In Finland. In the Winter.

The most recent distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) meant that most people could not get to Twitter.  While that was awful and may have forced a few people to actually work instead of tweeting, for the most part, that was not a big deal.  In fairness to the DYN attack, there were actually hundreds […]

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Proof A Government Crypto Backdoor Is A Really Bad Idea

It was really only a matter of time.  As the FBI (but interestingly NOT the CIA or NSA) keeps pressing for a crypto backdoor – or whatever they would prefer to call it to make it seem more palatable  – and security experts keep saying this is a really, REALLY bad idea, the universe decided […]

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Google Mail Adding New Security Warnings

Google is starting to roll out new security messages in the next week or so to help users to be able to detect spam emails and malicious web sites. For GMail read on the web or on Android devices, any message whose sender cannot be authenticated with Sender Policy Framework (SPF) or Domain Keys Identified Mail […]

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Internet of Things Devices Used For Massive DDoS Attacks

Lizard Stresser, the “service” that came to fame on Christmas Day 2014 when it knocked Sony’s Playstation and Microsoft’s xBox web sites off line, has never gone away.  Now it has a new claim to fame. The claimed purpose of the software was to allow web site owners to stress test their web sites under […]

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