Rather than Expanding Broadband, the FCC Wants to Count Cell Service as Internet
Credit to Author: Kaleigh Rogers| Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 17:11:50 +0000
Fudging the numbers doesn’t help anybody.
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A Brief History of ‘NSFW’
Credit to Author: Motherboard Staff| Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2017 16:00:00 +0000
And how arguably the internet’s most influential acronym is changing.
Read moreGoogle Wants to Keep ‘localhost’ Local
Credit to Author: Michael Byrne| Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2017 14:37:50 +0000
A quirk in IETF standards potentially leaves private IP addresses exposed.
Read moreYour ‘Anonymous’ Browsing Data Isn’t Actually Anonymous
Credit to Author: Daniel Oberhaus| Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 13:00:00 +0000
Researchers said it was “trivial” to identify users and view their browsing habits in purchased ‘anonymous’ browsing data.
Read moreHow the dark web has gone corporate
Some criminals on the dark web are taking their cues from the practices of corporate IT. Illicit offerings run the gamut from code that buyers have to implement themselves to turnkey solutions and consulting services. Here’s a look at what’s out there.
Restricting Firefox to TLS version 1.2 makes browsing safer
Credit to Author: Michael Horowitz| Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 19:43:00 -0700
Although its common to think of a secure website as the opposite of an insecure one, the choice is not, in fact, binary. For a website to be truly secure, there are about a dozen or so ducks that all need to be lined up in a row.
Seeing HTTPS does not mean that the security is well done, secure websites exist in many shades of gray. Since web browsers don’t offer a dozen visual indicators, many sites that are not particularly secure appear, to all but the most techie nerds, to be secure nonetheless. Browser vendors have dumbed things down for non-techies.
Last September, I took Apple to task for not having all their ducks in a row, writing that some of their security oversights allowed Apple websites to leak passwords.
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Stay away from the Fireball Malware – Update your Antivirus
Credit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 13:17:05 +0000
In its latest advisory, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has warned Internet users of the Fireball malware. This post explains what this virus is all about and how you can stay away from it. What is the Fireball Malware? Fireball is a browser-hijacker that attacks the victim’s web…
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Read moreChrome bug that lets sites secretly record audio and video is not a flaw Google says
Credit to Author: Darlene Storm| Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 06:31:00 -0700
If your web browser was recording audio and video of you without any indication it was doing so, would you consider that invasion of privacy a security issue? Chrome doesn’t.
After AOL web developer Ran Bar-Zik discovered that a website can record audio and video without the red recording light appearing on the Chrome tab, he reported the bug.
But since users are the crux of problem, Google doesn’t classify it as a security flaw. That’s because before any audio or video recordings, a user has to give a site permission before it can access a user’s webcam or microphone.
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