The social media platform Twitter has just asked all 300+ million users to reset their old passwords, due to an apparent exposure of user passwords via a bug that stored passwords in plain text — without an ecrypted form of protection that would mask a Twitter user’s true password. In its company blog yesterday afternoon, …
ICANN’s begging spree trip to Brussels this week with the European Union’s data protection authorities (DPAs) failed to secure a moratorium to delay the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) implementation. In what is seen as a predictable ICANN-style self-inflicted harm, the organization is now left with less than 30 days to find a solution to …
Researchers at Qihoo 360’s Core security unit say an advanced persistent threat (APT) group is using the IE vulnerability on a “global scale”, which is being delivered to select targets via malicious Office documents loaded with what it calls a “double-kill” vulnerability. Victims are required to open the Office document, which launches a malicious webpage …
Registrars of 11 ‘pirate’ websites have been suspended with a further 89 domains are now being targeted after measuring websites against standards established by the UK’s Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit. In addition to website blocking which is running rampant across dozens of countries right now, targeting the domains of pirate sites is considered to …
Kaspersky seems to be getting into more trouble in the US with its services being either banned or grounded. Months after the US Government ordered its federal agencies to stop using any internet security software provided by Kaspersky Lab. Kaspersky indicated it had appealed to a US federal court on the grounds the ban it …
The Turnbull Government has released the findings of the review into Australia’s .au domain. The not-for-profit .au Domain Administration (auDA) oversees the operation of Australia’s .au domain, has been embroilled in leadership crisis for over two years resulting in a moderate leadership turnover. In 2017, the government opened a public cconsultation that would give a …
The deadline for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation compliance is fast approaching, resulting in increased searches for the acronym “GDPR” on Google’s search engine. This organic search increase has prompted companies like Adobe and IBM — which offer consulting services — to buy up search terms, driving up the price of keywords. Since …
In an effort to shut down Telegram, Russia blocks Amazon, Google network addresses ARS Reports. Roskomnadzor—Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media—moved to enforce a new Russian federal law blocking the use of Telegram. The censorship began with Roskomnadzor instructing Internet service providers to block requests to Internet Protocol addresses of Telegram’s …
The U.S. government has sent a letter to ICANN asking it to review GoDaddy’s (NYSE: GDDY) activities around blocking access to Whois records. Through David Redl, who heads the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, sent the letter to ICANN’s board today asking it to look into the matter. The timing is strange because, coming in …
Russia has banned the Telegram messaging app after it – because the company refuses to reveal its encryption key. A court in Moscow ruled to block the popular app after the firm declined to give state security services access to private conversations. It followed a long-running battle between authorities and Telegram, which has a reputation …