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Internet intelligence firm GreyNoise reports that it has been tracking large waves of "Noise Storms" containing spoofed internet traffic since January 2020. However, despite extensive analysis, it...

What happens at Black Hat… While trying to escape the Las Vegas heat during Black Hat last month, watchTowr Labs researchers decided to poke around for weaknesses in the WHOIS protocol. They claim...

Better late than never The White House on Tuesday indicated it hopes to shore up the weak security of internet routing, specifically the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).…

Unprotected database with 12 years of biz records yanked offline Exclusive Nearly 2.7 TB of sensitive data — 31.5 million invoices, contracts, HIPPA patient consent forms, and other business...

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These internet resources can be web servers, email servers, proxy servers, routers, FTP servers or any other public-facing device which performs a service or function. Because these resources are both generally critical for company operations and especially vulnerable to risks, threats or attacks due to their public-facing nature, setting strict guidelines for how these devices should be configured for access is a key priority to ensure business continuity and data protection.

Israel-based hacktivists are taking credit for an ongoing internet outage in Iran. "In the coming minutes we will attack systems and internet providers in Iran," WeRedEvils said on Telegram yesterday.

About Bruce Schneier I am a public-interest technologist, working at the intersection of security, technology, and people. I've been writing about security issues on my blog since 2004, and in my monthly newsletter since 1998.

Legislation for an internet "Kill switch" will reach Malaysia's Parliament in October, according to the country's minister for Law and Institutional Reform. She did write that the government wants social media platform providers and internet messaging services to take more responsibility for the role their products play in online crimes such as fraud, child sexual abuse material, sexual harassment and solicitation, plus bullying.

Supposedly the DHS has these: The robot, called “NEO,” is a modified version of the “Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicle” (Q-UGV) sold to law enforcement by a company called Ghost Robotics....