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Over 100,000 devices can be used to amplify DDoS attacks via multicast DNS
Over 100,000 devices have a misconfigured service called multicast DNS that accepts requests from the Internet and can potentially be abused to amplify distributed …
New Firefox version says “might as well” to encrypting all Web traffic
Developers of the Firefox browser have moved one step closer to an Internet that encrypts all the world’s traffic with a new feature that …
Popular hotel Internet gateway devices vulnerable to hacking
Some Internet gateway devices commonly used by hotels and conference centers can easily be compromised by hackers, allowing them to launch a variety of …
Safari users in the UK can sue Google over alleged privacy violations
The U.K. Court of Appeal won’t block a privacy lawsuit that alleges Google tracked Safari users without authorization, so the three plaintiffs can continue …
Security agencies get access to 2 yrs of Australians’ phone, internet records
A law forcing Australian phone and internet companies to keep records for two years has been passed by both houses of parliament. The new …
Drones Beaming Web Access Are in the Stars for Facebook
In classical mythology, Aquila is the eagle carrying Jupiter’s thunderbolts skyward. At Facebook, it is the code name for a high-flying drone, indicative of …
The Internet of Things and the currency of privacy
If you’re like most people, you share a lot of personal information with companies like Google and Facebook for the convenience their free services …
Google discovers new security holes in SSL — is the entire system fundamentally flawed?
Google has discovered that an intermediate certificate authority had issued unauthorized certificates for multiple Google domains. The problem arose because the intermediate authority, MCS …
Congress considers Patriot Act repeal as FCC commissioner moves to block net neutrality
Two events worth noting took place this week on Capitol Hill. First, Representatives Mark Pocan (D-Wisc) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) reintroduced the Surveillance State …
Facebook steps into the connected-home arena
Facebook is extending Parse, its suite of back-end software development tools, to create Internet of Things apps for items like smart home appliances and …
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