Researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have found that one of the most popular source code repositories in the world is still housing thousands of publicly accessible encryption keys. Over 100,000 code repositories on source code management site GitHub contain secret access keys that can give attackers privileged access to those repositories (repos) or …
ICANN has proposed new contracts for the .Org and .Info registries that would eliminate price caps on the domain names. Under the terms of the new agreements, .Org operator Public Interest Registry and .Info operator Afilias could increase prices on registrations to an unlimited amount, provided that they give advance notice. A price hike means …
The applicant of honeywell brand domain, American conglomerate Honeywell (NYSE: HON) has decided it doesn’t want to run its own top level domain name anymore nor transition it to a third party registry. The company informed (pdf) ICANN last month that it wishes to terminate its agreement to run .honeywell as a top level domain …
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has been penalized yet again by European antitrust regulators, this time with a €1.49 billion ($1.7 billion) fine for limiting how some websites could display ads sold by its rivals. This marks the third billion-dollar penalty European regulators have imposed on the tech giant for hindering competition. The EU says that Google …
Trademark owners filed a record 3,447 cases under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) with WIPO’s Arbitration and Mediation Center in 2018 as businesses reacted to the proliferation of websites used for counterfeit sales, fraud, phishing, and other forms of online trademark abuse. (Annex 1 ) WIPO Director General Francis Gurry said: “Domain names involving fraud and …
Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks have spotted a new variant of the Mirai IoT malware in the wild targeting two new classes of devices –smart signage TVs and wireless presentation systems. This new strain is being used by a new IoT botnet spotted earlier this year. The botnet’s author(s) appears to have invested quite …
Facebook appears to be recovering from a more than 14-hour disruption to all of its products that left them mostly inaccessible across the world. On Wednesday, people around the world found out when all three services experienced interruptions throughout the day. The company’s main social network, its two messaging apps and image-sharing site Instagram were …
Happy Birthday, World Wide Web. It was 30 years ago that British engineer Sir Tim Berners-Lee effectively created the medium. To celebrate, Berners-Lee wrote a somber reflection on Monday on where the web—which along the way lost its early capitalization—is today. “The web has become a public square, a library, a doctor’s office, a shop, …
Summary: All of Intel’s Core CPUs are susceptible to cyber attacks exploiting flaws in their speculative execution capabilities, has revealed. Intel processors are vulnerable to an attack, nicknamed Spoiler, to which AMD processors are immune according to new research paper [PDF] at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the University of Lübeck. Intel will not be able …