The Internet bug Heartbleed doesn’t just affect websites. It also has shown up in the gadgets we use to connect to the Internet. Tech giants Cisco (CSCO, Fortune 500) and Juniper (JNPR) have identified about two dozen networking devices affected by Heartbleed, including servers, routers, switches, phones and video cameras used by small and large …
If you’ve encountered online scams before, you know that any email that addresses you by name, continues into a form letter and gives you a link to change your password stinks to high heaven. Imagine, then, how surprised Name.com customers must have felt to discover that such an email from the domain-name registrar and Web-hosting …
The introduction of thousands of new Internet extensions in the next year is going to make the Internet less secure if a new report is anything to go by. The “namespace quality index” produced by domain consultants Architelos is the first time a comprehensive review of abuse of the domain name system has been undertaken. …