Security News

Microsoft Patches Another Internet Explorer Flaw Exploited in Attacks
2019-11-12 19:42

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for November 2019 fix over 70 vulnerabilities, including an Internet Explorer flaw that has been exploited in attacks. read more

Leak of 4,000 Facebook documents heaps more trouble on internet giant
2019-11-08 11:44

This week’s bold rebrand of Facebook to FACEBOOK can’t hide the growing sense that nobody is happy with the company right now.

Global internet freedom declines for the ninth consecutive year
2019-11-08 06:00

Governments around the world are increasingly using social media to manipulate elections and monitor their citizens, tilting the technology toward digital authoritarianism. As a result of these...

euNetworks builds critical internet infrastructure linking Dublin to London and Lowestoft
2019-11-05 03:00

euNetworks, a Western European bandwidth infrastructure company, announced that it has undertaken a strategic investment, building critical internet infrastructure linking Dublin to London and...

Russia’s sovereign internet law comes into force
2019-11-04 12:45

The new law compels the country’s ISPs to forward all data arriving and departing from their networks through special gateway servers.

Controversial Russian Law to Control Internet Enters Force
2019-11-01 11:53

A controversial law that would allow Russia to cut internet traffic from international servers came into force Friday, prompting fears from rights activists of online isolation. read more

Hundreds charged in internet's biggest child-abuse swap-shop site bust: IP addy leak led cops to sys-op's home
2019-10-16 20:28

23 kids saved, alleged scumbag-in-chief already in jail US prosecutors say a South Korean man was behind the largest child-abuse image-swapping operation yet found on the internet.…

Cracking the Passwords of Early Internet Pioneers
2019-10-15 15:38

Lots of them weren't very good: BSD co-inventor Dennis Ritchie, for instance, used "dmac" (his middle name was MacAlistair); Stephen R. Bourne, creator of the Bourne shell command line...

Update: Internet Security Threat Report
2019-10-08 13:48

Kevin Haley of Symantec Shares Key FindingsKevin Haley of Symantec shares key findings from the company's latest Internet Security Threat Report.