Computerworld-The Internet shutdown in Syria likely took very little to accomplish considering the country's limited Internet infrastructure and international connectivity,network analysts said Friday. Such a move would be much harder,if ...
IDG News Service-The Romanian domain names of Google,Yahoo,Microsoft,Kaspersky Lab and other companies were hijacked on Wednesday and were redirected to a hacked server in the Netherlands. The hijacking occurred at the DNS(Domain Name ...
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The recent cyberattack that infected Israeli police computers with malware was likely part of a year-long cyberespionage operation with targets in Israel and the Palestinian territories,according to security researchers from antivirus ...
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Cyber criminals targeted users of Skype,Facebook and Windows using multiple Blackhole exploits in October,according to the latest threat report from security firm GFI Software. Researchers uncovered a large number of Blackhole exploits ...
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Icann, the organisation that manages internet protocol numbers and the domain name system root, is hosting its first internet root server system in Scotland in a 100-rack datacentre in Dundee from IT provider brightsolid online technology. ...
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An unexpected bug cropped up after new hardware was installed in one of Amazon Web Service's Northern Virginia data centers,which caused the more than 12-hour outage last week that brought down popular sites such as Reddit,Imgur,AirBNB and ...
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CSO-It was almost a year ago that a curious mathematician with no real Internet security training was able to walk through a gaping security hole left by Google--a weak email cryptographic key. But most security experts say that while the ...
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IDG News Service-Open and misconfigured DNS(Domain Name System)resolvers are increasingly used to amplify distributed denial-of-service(DDoS)attacks,according to a report released Wednesday by HostExploit,an organization that tracks ...
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GoDaddy restored some services on Monday as the company battled online attacks that severely impacted its hosting and domain-name registration operations. "We're still working," the company wrote on Twitter. "Getting closer to normal. ...
IDG News Service - D-Link's latest addition to its network-attached storage portfolio, the Cloud Storage 4000, can store up to 16TB of data which can be accessed remotely using smartphones or tablets. But the company offers few cloud ...
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IDG News Service - Some AT&T customers are being affected by a failure in the carrier's DNS (Domain Name System) servers that began Wednesday morning. Initial reports indicate the failure is hitting companies across the U.S., but few ...
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UK / USA - Three draft control protocol standards are available for public review on the PLASA website until early October. They may be downloaded for free at the web address below. BSR E1.37-2 - 201x, Additional Message Sets for ANSI ...
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IDG News Service-The Russian legislature's lower house on Wednesday adopted a bill that,according to tech companies in the country,could lead to Internet censorship. The bill,which includes amendments to several current laws,still needs ...
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Government-sponsored servers designed to keep DNSChanger-infected PCs and Macs online were switched off earlier today as scheduled,but several major U.S.Internet service providers downplayed problems to their customers. The number of IP ...
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IDG News Service-The National Telecommunications and Information Administration awarded ICANN the mandate to manage the assignment of IP addresses and the management of top-level domains until September 2015,the government agency announced ...
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