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Microsoft this week shared details on the steps it will take in an effort to ensure improved security for Internet routing. The Border Gateway Protocol routing protocol, on which the Internet runs, relies on autonomous systems to exchange routing and reachability information.
One of the operators behind a Mirai botnet pleaded guilty to their involvement in a huge DDoS attack that caused a massive Internet disruption during October 2016. The botnet, a variant of the Mirai botnet, was developed by the defendant with the help of others between roughly 2015 until November 2016, specifically for being used to target gaming platforms in DDoS attacks.
New research from CyberNews.com analyzed 15.2 billion passwords based on term categories, with only 2.2 billion being considered "Unique." People, the data showed, choose passwords based, obviously, on what they think they can remember, but can be deciphered by hackers based on the creator, patterns, and personality. About 7% of passwords were either curse words or sex-related.
28% of subscribers said they would definitely switch service providers to obtain a superior cybersecurity solution. Telecom providers are situated to provide security services.
FireMon announced an integration with Zscaler Internet Access to simplify enterprise adoption of Secure Access Service Edge architectures. As enterprises move to the cloud, they are adopting hybrid network security architectures that incorporate cloud-first technologies like SASE to improve flexibility, performance, and agility.
The Internet Society and the Internet Engineering Task Force announced a new long term strategic agreement that will ensure the continuity of the IETF's critical work in creating open standards that make the Internet work better. The Internet Society provided the organisational home for the IETF until 2018 when the IETF Administration LLC was formed to support its ongoing operations.
Today, Microsoft is taking further steps to kill off Internet Explorer in Windows 10 by removing support for Microsoft Teams. As part of this plan, Microsoft is no longer supporting Microsoft Teams in Internet Explorer starting on November 30th, 2020.
The largest collection of public internet censorship data ever compiled shows that even citizens of what are considered the world's freest countries aren't safe from internet censorship. A team from the University of Michigan used its own Censored Planet tool, an automated censorship tracking system launched in 2018, to collect more than 21 billion measurements over 20 months in 221 countries.
The former head of the National Cyber Security Centre has warned that some British government figures have a "Profound lack of understanding" of cyberspace, online warfare and information security. Ciaran Martin, who stepped down as NCSC chief earlier this year, also cautioned policymakers against seeing the online world as a place for warfare, saying: "We militarise the internet at our peril."
Microsoft is taking further steps to kill off the antiquated Internet Explorer in favor of its new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser. Starting in recent versions of Microsoft Edge, when Internet Explorer visits an incompatible site, the browsing session will automatically be launched in Microsoft Edge to continue the browsing session.