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An Internet Explorer 11 zero-day vulnerability used against security researchers, not yet fixed by Microsoft, today received a micropatch that prevents exploitation. An MHT file, or MIME HTML, is a special file format used by Internet Explorer to store a web page and its resources in a single archive file.
Usually, when Safer Internet Day comes around, the cybersecurity situation hasn't changed much from the year before, so it doesn't feel like much of a reason to do anything special. With all this in mind, why not take advantage of SAFER INTERNET DAY 2021 to check your online security practices and make sure you, your family and your friends are as safe as possible?
A trio of researchers from China have found that QUIC is more vulnerable to web fingerprinting than HTTPS, a shortcoming that could make it easier for an adversary to infer which websites an individual is visiting by scrutinizing network traffic. Google developed QUIC to solve issues like these and the protocol is being worked on in parallel by the Internet Engineering Task Force as a standard.
Verizon Fios is experiencing an Internet outage making it impossible to access many websites after a fiber connection was cut in Brooklyn. Starting at approximately 11:00 AM EST, Verizon Fios users found they were no longer able to access popular services, such as Google, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Azure, and even Verizon's own website and My verizon app to check for known outages.
Verizon Fios is experiencing an Internet outage making it impossible to access many websites after a fiber connection was cut in Brooklyn. Starting at approximately 11:00 AM EST, Verizon Fios users found they were no longer able to access popular services, such as Google, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Azure, and even Verizon's own website and My verizon app to check for known outages.
Since 1997, the Supreme Court has used the metaphor of the free market of ideas to define the internet, thus addressing the regulation of the net as a matter of freedom of speech. Internet regulation should be framed not as a matter of freedom of speech, but as a matter of freedom to conduct a business, they argue.
The Internet Society Foundation has awarded over $1 million through its Research grant programme to seven projects that examine the future and sustainability of the internet. Project title: Creating a research strategy to green the internet.
Now it appears DDoS-Guard is about to be relieved of more than two-thirds of the Internet address space the company leases to clients - including the Internet addresses currently occupied by Parler. Much like Internet infrastructure firm CloudFlare, DDoS-Guard typically doesn't host sites directly but instead acts as a go-between to simultaneously keep the real Internet addresses of its clients confidential and to protect them from crippling Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks.
The cyber offensive is said to have originated in August last year, with the attacks aimed specifically at energy and construction companies, said researchers from Check Point Research today in a joint analysis in partnership with industrial cybersecurity firm Otorio. Although phishing campaigns engineered for credential theft are among the most prevalent reasons for data breaches, what makes this operation stand out is an operational security failure that led to the attackers unintentionally exposing the credentials they had stolen to the public Internet.
Seven vulnerabilities have been found in a popular DNS caching proxy and DHCP server known as dnsmasq, raising the possibility of widespread online attacks on networking devices. Dnsmasq 2.83, maintained by open source software developer Simon Kelley, has been released to address the issues, which recall the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability identified in 2008 by security researcher Dan Kaminsky.