Category Archive for "Internet"
EU vote for 'neutral' Net plan draws sharp criticism
By rejecting amendments as it passed a bill on Net neutrality, the European Parliament has all but ensured that in the European Union, the Internet will be neutral in name only, critics say. While the effects of the “European Single…
When it comes to spam, IBM's SoftLayer is the host with the most
IBM may be the fastest-growing vendor in the worldwide security software market, but it’s also the owner of the world’s largest source of spam. That’s according to a Wednesday report by security expert Brian Krebs, who called out the company’s…
Mozilla considers early cutoff for SHA-1 digital certificates
In light of recent advances in attacks against the SHA-1 cryptographic function, Mozilla is considering banning digital certificates signed with the algorithm sooner than expected. The CA/Browser Forum, a group of certificate authorities and browser makers that sets guidelines for…
Google graveyard: What Google has killed off in 2015
Six feet deep Google is truly a company that has more technology and products than it can handle sometimes, and in 2015 the company with the recent name change shed a host of tools and products to enable it to…
Phishing sites exploit trust in valid SSL certificates
Certificate authorities aren’t scrutinizing who gets their SSL certificates, and now a large number of phishing sites have legitimate certificates, said Netcraft, a United Kingdom-based Internet security and research company. SSL certificates rely on trust. Website operators deploy SSL on…
IDG Contributor Network: Internet freedom based on the First Amendment is unattainable
As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton gave a speech at the National Press Club in which she stated, “New technologies do not take sides in the struggle for freedom and progress, but the United States does. We stand for a…
Cookie handling in browsers can break HTTPS security
Cookies, the files that websites create in browsers to remember logged-in users and track other information about them, could be abused by attackers to extract sensitive information from encrypted HTTPS connections. The issue stems from the fact that the HTTP…
It's official: North America is out of new IPv4 addresses
North America has finally run out of new addresses based on IPv4, the numbering system that got the Internet where it is today but which is running out of space for the coming era of networking. The American Registry for…
Skype still down worldwide
According to monitoring site DownDetector, Skype went down worldwide today at 1:23 a.m. PT. As of 8:30 a.m., it’s still down. When Microsoft first detected the outage, the Microsoft Heartbeat service reported: Some of you may experience problems with Skype presence…
The perils of free digital certificates
Let’s Encrypt, the open source digital certificate authority backed by industry stalwarts Mozilla, Cisco, and Akamai, announced the release of its first certificate two days ago. Intended to ease the transition to TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol, the more secure successor to…