According to a report obtained by The Verge , analysts from Florida-based Internet security firm Cymru have uncovered a massive foreign hacking enterprise that has somehow managed to steal more than a terabyte of data per day. Confirmed international targets include military and academic facilities in addition to a major search engine, among others. More »
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Overseas Hackers Have Been Snatching More Than 1TB of Data Per Day
After all the fuss over whether or not Instagram lost users over the holidays , Facebook has decided the best solution is to just ignore the problem altogether. More »
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Facebook: Instagram User Exodus? What Instagram User Exodus?
If you sketchily poked on over to the Pirate Bay to do a little downloading of a legal, quasi-legal, or outright illegal nature recently, you may have noticed you can’t get through. No, your ISP hasn’t started blocking it; it’s down for everyone, everywhere . Proxies too. More »
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The Pirate Bay Is Down Across the Globe
angry tapir writes “A Web security policy mechanism that promises to make HTTPS-enabled websites more resilient to various types of attacks has been approved and released as an Internet standard — but despite support from some high-profile websites, adoption elsewhere is still low. HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) allows websites to declare themselves accessible only over HTTPS (HTTP Secure) and was designed to prevent hackers from forcing user connections over HTTP or abusing mistakes in HTTPS implementations to compromise content integrity.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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HTTP Strict Transport Security Becomes Internet Standard