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Security News for the Week Ending October 13, 2023

Utah Sues TikTok for Getting Children Addicted Apparently Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter are not addictive since Utah has singled out TikTok to sue for being addictive. They also say that TikTok deceptively obscures its relationship with ByteDance. Indiana made similar allegations and Montana banned the app completely. This will take years, if not a decade […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 24, 2020

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 […]

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Denial Of Service Attack Meets Ransomware

Cloudflare, the denial of service prevention vendor, is reporting hearing of gangs who threaten denial of service attacks unless the victim pays a ransom in bitcoins.  Even though they have heard from over 100 customers, none have been attacked, whether they pay or not. Here is the scam.  You use the name of a known […]

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