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Did CloudFlare Lie To Us About The Spamhaus Cyberattack?
The headlines yesterday were earth-shattering, with tech blogs and news agencies screaming in unison about how the “Largest ever cyberattack slows the internet for millions”, or the “Global Internet slows after biggest attack in history”. Even I was caught off guard with my own report, “CyberBunker Launches World’s Largest DDoS Attack, Slows Down the Entire ...
Egypt Arrests Divers “Trying To Sabotage Undersea Cables”
In one of the more ‘hands on’ examples of cyber-espionage we’ve seen in a while, Egypt’s military has reported that it’s managed to arrest three scuba divers in the process of trying to sever an undersea cable that connects the country to the World Wide Web. Speaking on the Egyptian armed forces Facebook page, Colonel Ahmed ...
US Slaps China With Cyber-Security Law; Huawei, ZTE & Lenovo Will All Suffer
There was quite a kerfuffle late last year when a US congressional panel warned that the Chinese government might be using hardware from manufacturers like Huawei and ZTE to spy on government agencies and other institutions. The Chinese angrily denied the accusations, but by then the damage to its reputation had already been done, leading ...
CyberBunker Launches “World’s Largest” DDoS Attack, Slows Down The Entire Internet
A massive cyberattack launched by the Dutch web hosting company CyberBunker has caused global disruption of the web, slowing down internet speeds for millions of users across the world, according to a BBC report. CyberBunker launched an all-out assault, described by the BBC as the world’s biggest ever cyberattack, on the self-appointed spam-fighting company Spamhaus, ...
AWS Launches CloudHSM App To Bolster Data Security In The Cloud
In an effort to boost data security in the cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has just launched a new service called AWS CloudHSM, designed to help its customers meet strict regulatory requirements without sacrificing their cloud application’s performance. AWS says that the new security feature is aimed at customers whose regulatory requirements prevent them from ...
Windows Blue Confirmed By Microsoft, But What Does It Mean for Desktop?
Following weeks of speculation about the upcoming but never acknowledged Windows Blue update for Windows 8, Microsoft has finally admitted to its existence. The first rumors about Windows Blue began emerging months ago, with the name being dropped in interviews and Microsoft job postings that were quickly removed, before culminating in last weekend’s leak of ...
Google Wins “Ungoogleable” Usage Fight In Sweden, But At What Cost To Its Brand?
Google has been successful in its efforts to make the phrase “ungoogleable”, well, um, effectively ‘ungoogleable’ in the Swedish language, forcing that country’s language officials to drop the term from its most recently published list of Swedish words. The unlikely spat came about following our Swedish friend’s recognition that not everything can be found so ...
VMware Gets Dumped On As PayPal Embraces OpenStack
PayPal has just announced its intention to embrace OpenStack cloud architecture, ripping out software from rival VMware in more than 80,000 servers to make room for the open-source solution, according to a report in Business Insider this morning. The plan was revealed by the OpenStack Foundation’s board member Boris Renski, one of the co-founders of ...
Anonymous Announces #OP TRUTH FORCE To Take On Facebook Censorship
Brace yourselves people… The hacktivist collective Anonymous has made a fresh call to supporters for a new operation targeted against Facebook, in order to protest against the social media network’s alleged censorship policies. The call, which was posted at Anonnews.org, urges members of the collective to “band together” and bombard Facebook with “uncensored material”, reasoning ...
Saudis: “Let Us Monitor Skype Calls Or Else!”
Saudi Arabia is threatening to block access to Skype and other Voice over IP (VoIP) communications platforms, apparently because its officials are upset at not being allowed to spy on people’s communications, according to various local reports. Officials from Saudi’s Communication and Information Technology Commission are reportedly demanding that service providers such as Skype, WhatsApp and ...