Last night, after several months of relative quiet, a hacking group calling itself the Shadow Brokers posted new data purportedly stolen from the NSA. The group’s last leak in August included malware believed to be used by the NSA as recently as 2013. At the time, the Shadow Brokers claimed...
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Tuesday, 1 November 2016
Monday, 31 October 2016
WTF is the dark web?
Maybe you heard your LinkedIn, Tumblr or Dropbox password was floating around there. Or maybe you read a news story about that guy who got busted for running Silk Road, that site that sold drugs and other illicit goods. Chances are, you’ve seen the words “dark web” splashed in a headline or heard...
Friday, 28 October 2016
Facebook gives users local ballot guides in voting initiative
Facebook rolled out a new feature today that gives users a full voter guide, from the presidential candidates to the down-ballot propositions and local politicians, in an effort to “encourage civic participation.” The feature allows users to “favorite” their chosen candidates and initiatives so...
Thursday, 27 October 2016
Asana co-founder discusses Thiel’s donation to Trump
Asana co-founder and head of product Justin Rosenstein discussed the political views of his controversial investor and former board member Peter Thiel today at the Tech Inclusion conference in San Francisco. Asana isn’t the only company to face questions about its continued relationship with Thiel...
Tuesday, 25 October 2016
The Mirai botnet’s internet takedown opens up a new market for attackers and defenders
DDoS — distributed denial of service — is an unsophisticated form of attack that overwhelms sites with spam traffic so legitimate users can’t get through. DDoS is a war of economics: whoever has the most computing power, defender or attacker, usually wins. This makes DDoS a...
Saturday, 22 October 2016
Aibnb sues New York City
Another city, another Airbnb lawsuit. Airbnb sued the city of New York, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, and Mayor Bill DeBlasio today over legislation that would make it illegal to advertise accommodations that can’t legally be rented out for less than 30 days. The bill was passed in June...
Friday, 21 October 2016
Weebly hacked, 43 million credentials stolen
Weebly, the web design platform, was hacked in February, the data breach notification site LeakedSource reports. Usernames and passwords for more than 43 million accounts were taken in the breach, although the passwords are secured with the strong hashing algorithm bcrypt. Weebly said in an email...