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The owner of the AirTag that called home can decrypt the location in the Find My message, but has no idea which relay device passed the message on. By limiting the length of the hidden message and repeating the same Bluetooth "Public keys" over and over again, Bräunlein's hope was that eventually a complete copy of all the data packets containing the hidden data might make it to Apple.
A shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank announced to the world's computer networks that it was now managing a colossal, previously idle chunk of the internet owned by the U.S. Department of Defense. It's also more than twice the size of the internet space actually used by the Pentagon.
An ongoing malvertising campaign tracked as "Tag Barnakle" has been behind the breach of more than 120 ad servers over the past year to sneakily inject code in an attempt to serve malicious advertisements that redirect users to rogue websites, thus exposing victims to scamware or malware. Unlike other operators who set about their task by infiltrating the ad-tech ecosystem using "Convincing personas" to buy space on legitimate websites for running the malicious ads, Tag Barnakle is "Able to bypass this initial hurdle completely by going straight for the jugular - mass compromise of ad serving infrastructure," said Confiant security researcher Eliya Stein in a Monday write-up.
Vapor IO and VMware announced the Open Grid Alliance, an industry alliance that will define and accelerate the Open Grid, an evolutionary rearchitecting of the internet. "The internet was built from the core out. Now we need to rebuild it from the edge in," said Cole Crawford, founder and CEO of edge infrastructure company Vapor IO. "The alliance will accelerate a decades-long journey of innovation at all levels of the stack, from fiber optics to workload automation. We want to align thought leaders, technologies and investments to bring forth applications that simply cannot be delivered on the internet we have today."
The US Justice Department on Friday announced the arrest of Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, for allegedly planning to blow up a single Amazon data center in Ashburn, Virginia, which he thought would knock out around 70 per cent of the internet. The tipser who turned Pendley in is said to have provided authorities with the poster's email address, which was registered by Pendley.
The FBI arrested a Texas man on Thursday for allegedly planning to "Kill of about 70% of the internet" in a bomb attack targeting an Amazon Web Services data center on Smith Switch Road in Ashburn, Virginia. Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, was charged via criminal complaint on Friday morning for attempting to destroy a building using C-4 plastic explosives he tried to buy from an undercover FBI employee.
Cisco announced its strategy to help communication service providers and web scale companies around the world connect, secure and automate their networks to deliver a stronger, more accessible internet to everyone, everywhere, regardless of geographic limitations. Answering the call, Cisco designed its Converged SDN Transport, an innovative blueprint designed to help service providers converge multiple networks into a common, cost efficient and secure infrastructure with enormous scale.
Google has demonstrated exploiting the Spectre CPU attack remotely over the web: Today, we’re sharing proof-of-concept (PoC) code that confirms the practicality of Spectre exploits against...
The most well-known and popular blogging platform, WordPress, is considering dropping support for Internet Explorer 11 as the browser's usage dips below 1%. Using three metrics to determine the number of people still using IE 11, WordPress has found that its cumulative usage is below 1%:. These usage numbers are similar to when WordPress dropped support for Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10 in 2017. With such low numbers and the high cost of maintaining the browser, WordPress plans to remove support for Internet Explorer 11 in the future.
A new extension for Google Chrome has made explicit how most popular sites on the internet load resources from one or more of Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon. The extension, Big Tech Detective, shows the extent to which websites exchange data with these four companies by reporting on them.