TalkTalk is offering cheap Black Friday broadband deals with 3 months for free
Despite the official day still being a good couple of weeks away, Black Friday is now well and truly in full swing. And if it's Black Friday broadband deals you're...
Web hosting consolidation continues as one.com makes another acquisition
Danish web hosting firm group.One, better known by the name one.com, has acquired Finish web hosting company Zoner Oy for an undisclosed fee. The purchase is part of a wider...
SpaceX Starlink has some hiccups, as expected, but users are impressed
Enlarge / Starlink satellite dish and equipment in the Idaho panhandle's Coeur d'Alene National Forest. When SpaceX opened the Starlink public beta last month, the company told users to expect...
Financial Stability Board says it’s time to talk about IT outsourcing risks
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has opened up a discussion on regulatory and supervisory issues that could arise from financial services firms outsourcing functions, notably technology. The FSB, an international...
DDoS mitigation strategies needed to maintain availability during pandemic
The increased reliance of enterprises on remote working and internet connectivity during the Covid-19 pandemic has, in turn, increased the disruptive potential of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which...
DNS cache poisoning, the Internet attack from 2008, is back from the dead
In 2008, researcher Dan Kaminsky revealed one of the more severe Internet security threats ever: a weakness in the domain name system that made it possible for attackers to send...
Online kids’ game Animal Jam confirms large breach
Personally identifiable information (PII) on as many as 46 million players of the online children’s game Animal Jam, including birth dates, gender, and parents’ full names and billing addresses, have...
Microsoft finally acknowledges infuriating Outlook.com bug
Outlook.com has a very unfortunate bug which might make you think you’re seriously losing it, when you notice that previously deleted emails appear to be back in your inbox again.Some...
New academic tool used to identify fake news domain names
Academic researchers have created a new machine learning tool that can identify when a domain name has been created purely to spread misinformation, ensuring it can be stopped before it...
Company accused of spying on Assange acted for Ecuadorian Intelligence, says ex UC Global manager
The former head of operations of security company UC Global told a court that the company accused of spying on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the Embassy of Ecuador acted...