Security News

Finally. Thanks so much, nerds. Google, Apple, Mozilla end government* internet spying for good
2019-08-21 22:28

* Terms and conditions apply. Offer not valid outside Kazakhstan. Your home may be repossessed if you do not keep up payments On Wednesday, Google, Apple, and Mozilla said their web browsers will...

Internet-Exposed Sphinx Servers at Risk of Attacks
2019-08-21 11:54

All Sphinx servers that are exposed to the Internet are prone to abuse by cybercriminals, as they can be accessed by anyone, CERT-Bund warns. read more

Facebook Announces 2019 Internet Defense Prize Winners
2019-08-21 04:19

Facebook has announced the 2019 winners of the Internet Defense Prize, an award offered in partnership with USENIX. Created in 2014, the award is meant to recognize and reward research that...

How dodgy browser plugins, web scripts can silently rewrite that URL you were about to hit – and throw you into an internet wormhole
2019-08-15 07:08

Clickjacking code found on sites with 43 million daily visits total Analysis Clickjacking, which came to the attention of security types more than a decade ago, continues to thrive, despite...

A new online tool monitors the state of internet routing security
2019-08-13 09:40

The Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative announced the launch of the MANRS Observatory, a new online tool that measures the level of networks’ compliance to MANRS, a key...

FaceApp privacy panic sets internet alight
2019-07-19 10:26

You grant FaceApp a perpetual, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, modify and adapt your image. Sounds scary.

Kazakhstan Begins Intercepting HTTPS Internet Traffic Of All Citizens Forcefully
2019-07-19 09:34

If you are in Kazakhstan and unable to access the Internet service without installing a certificate, you're not alone. The Kazakhstan government has once again issued an advisory to all major...

Flaw in Iomega, LenovoEMC NAS devices exposes millions of files on the Internet
2019-07-17 09:32

A vulnerability in legacy Iomega and LenovoEMC network-attached storage (NAS) devices has led to many terabytes of potentially sensitive data being accessible to anyone via the Internet. About...

Patch now before you get your NAS kicked: Iomega storage boxes leave millions of files open to the internet
2019-07-16 13:00

API blunder exposes data, fix incoming from Lenovo Lenovo is emitting an emergency firmware patch for Iomega NAS devices after the network-attached storage boxes were discovered inadvertently...

Cloudflare’s global network now serves more than 18 million Internet properties
2019-07-15 03:00

Cloudflare, a leading Internet security, performance, and reliability company, announced that it protects and optimizes more than 18 million Internet properties as of the second quarter of 2019,...