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Internet Society Attacks State of Global Online Security
International non-profit the Internet Society (ISOC) has taken a long look at global online security, and it does not like what it sees. In a new report, prompted by a plethora of online attacks in 2016, the organisation surveyed 24,000 respondents across 54 countries and discovered that up to 93%…
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John McAfee Points Finger over Massive DDoS Attack
On Friday (21st October), a malicious party was responsible for a huge DDoS attack on Managed DNS infrastructure provider Dyn, taking out sites like Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify, and reddit in the process. The attack – which Dyn described as “global in nature” – involved tens of millions of IP addresses…
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“Great Firewall of Britain” Proposed
A proposal by the UK internet watchdog National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to filter internet content at the DNS level has been dubbed the “Great Firewall of Great Britain” due to the idea’s similarity to China’s infamous draconian national firewall, colloquially known as the Great Firewall of China. The head…
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Banking Malware ‘Dridex’ is Back!
We’ve all had that moment, those unwanted pop-ups and advertisements on your computer that make you suddenly realise “I’ve got a virus”. It’s one of the things we tend to think happens to others but it can happen to anybody and with the internet it’s easier and easier to spread…
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Netflix Debates Geoblocking and VPN Use
Following its global rollout to over 130 countries, Netflix has been discussing the reality of its users bypassing geoblocked content via VPN services, admitting that it’s “not obvious” how to prevent it, The Globe and Mail reports. The technique of using VPNs, proxies, and DNS spoofers to access Netflix content…
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Anonymous Claims They Are Responsible for Crippling Turkey
Anonymous has made recent news with taking part in and claiming hacks against several large groups, their latest campaign being targeted against ISIS (now more commonly known as ISIL or Daesh), with splinter groups even supporting the FBI with information. Now it would seem that they are not only directly…
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Large Scale DDoS Attempted Take Down of DNS Root Servers
Someone actually tried the impossible on two separate occasions, to take down the internet’s backbone. They did ultimately fail for multiple reasons, but at the same time, they actually got a surprisingly good result out of their attack. Early last week the Internet’s DNS Root Servers, that are the authoritative reference…
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Exploit Found In Netgear Routers
So we’ve all had those periods where we come home and think our stuff has been moved around, you know when you think you’ve put your keys down beside the door and you find them on the sitting room table. Now imagine that you came home and found that some…
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Roaming The Open World Of GTA V Money Generator Scams
Grand Theft Auto is a franchise which has captured the imagination of fans with an engrossing open player world and also regular updates which never fail to entertain. But, with every tech development lays the reality of scammers and hackers who regularly target consumers with the notion of “free” items…
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Popcorn Time Vulnerability Leaves Users Open to Attack
A security engineer has found a vulnerability in popular pirate movie application Popcorn Time that could leave users’ devices open to being hacked by a “man-in-the-middle” attacker. Antonios Chariton (aka ‘DaKnOb’), a Security Engineer & Researcher living in Greece, found the vulnerability in at least one fork of Popcorn Time’s…
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New Router Malware Said to Inject Porn into Webpages
Security experts are said to have found a new type of malware that attacks routers and injects unwanted ads and pornography into websites by modifying the router’s DNS settings. While the malware can hijack nearly every website on the internet, it is said to be mostly used to peddle porn…
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Nubem Start to Offer a Free Dynamic DNS Service
Nubem, an emerging service providers in cloud computing technologies, has announced that it will start offering a Free Dynamic DNS service to all customers. For those who do not know, Dynamic DNS, or DDNS, is the process of keeping up-to-date DNS record used by a computer with a dynamically assigned…
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Latest Sony Leaks Reveals How MPAA Want To Change DNS
It’s no secret that the MPAA are wanting to take stronger measures against piracy, but recent Sony leaks suggest they’re pushing to crack down even harder than they already are; they want to target the internet’s Domain Name System (DNS). The plan was first proposed as part of SOPA a…
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Craigslist Knocked Offline
Craigslist was knocked offline yesterday (Sunday) and at the time of writing, it still hasn’t come back. The suspected DNS hijack was previously redirecting visitors to a website called Digital Gangster. The Next Web points out that this site was behind a famous 2009 Twitter hack and another hack which took…
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Virgin Media Customers Lose Service After Internal Error
A number of Virgin Media customers found themselves starved of internet access last weekend, as a bug crashed the ISP’s child filtering system. The Websafe service is utilised by Virgin to prevent children seeing inappropriate content, a system used by all UK ISPs. For customers, use of the service is optional, however it has been…
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