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The Internet of (Scary) Things

UPDATE:  Brian’s web site is not back with Akamai, but rather with Google’s Project Shield.  Project Shield is an effort by Google to support free speech to journalists around the world.  If they accept your web site, there is no cost.  And Google probably has a fair amount of both bandwidth and brainpower to stop […]

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Why The GitHub DDoS Attack Should Concern Everyone

UPDATE:  (Note: this is a bit geeky) Again according to Steve Gibson, the way this malware that attacked Github and GreatFire worked is that it modified the local hosts file using vulnerabilities that were fixed but that users had not yet patched and changed the local hosts file.  It created entries for connect.facebook.net and google-analytics.com […]

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