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Former AT&T customers get $6.3 million in data throttling refunds

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is sending out $6,300,000 in partial refunds to 267,000 former AT&T Wireless customers as part of a data throttling settlement in 2019.
- Bill Toulas
- April 12, 2024
- 11:56 AM
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New HTTP/2 DoS attack can crash web servers with a single connection

Newly discovered HTTP/2 protocol vulnerabilities called "CONTINUATION Flood" can lead to denial of service (DoS) attacks, crashing web servers with a single TCP connection in some implementations.
- Bill Toulas
- April 04, 2024
- 11:28 AM
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KeyTrap attack: Internet access disrupted with one DNS packet

A serious vulnerability named KeyTrap in the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) feature could be exploited to deny internet access to applications for an extended period.
- Bill Toulas
- February 17, 2024
- 11:08 AM
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Tor Project removes relays because of for-profit, risky activity

The Tor Project has explained its recent decision to remove multiple network relays that represented a threat to the safety and security of all Tor network users.
- Bill Toulas
- November 20, 2023
- 08:06 PM
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Cloudflare DDoS protections ironically bypassed using Cloudflare

Cloudflare's Firewall and DDoS prevention can be bypassed through a specific attack process that leverages logic flaws in cross-tenant security controls.
- Bill Toulas
- September 30, 2023
- 10:16 AM
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MaginotDNS attacks exploit weak checks for DNS cache poisoning

A team of researchers from UC Irvine and Tsinghua University has developed a new powerful cache poisoning attack named 'MaginotDNS,' that targets Conditional DNS (CDNS) resolvers and can compromise entire TLDs top-level domains.
- Bill Toulas
- August 13, 2023
- 10:12 AM
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Brave Search adds private image and video search capability

The privacy-focused search engine Brave Search has finally introduced its own, independent image and video search capabilities, breaking free from relying on Bing and Google for media search.
- Bill Toulas
- August 03, 2023
- 12:00 PM
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ASUS routers knocked offline worldwide by bad security update

ASUS has apologized to its customers for a server-side security maintenance error that has caused a wide range of impacted router models to lose network connectivity.
- Bill Toulas
- May 19, 2023
- 12:11 PM
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DDoS attacks shifting to VPS infrastructure for increased power

Hyper-volumetric DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks in the first quarter of 2023 have shifted from relying on compromised IoT devices to leveraging breached Virtual Private Servers (VPS).
- Bill Toulas
- April 12, 2023
- 03:40 PM
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All Dutch govt networks to use RPKI to prevent BGP hijacking

The Dutch government will adopt the RPKI (Resource Public Key Infrastructure) standard on all its systems before the end of 2024 to upgrade the security of its internet routing.
- Bill Toulas
- April 09, 2023
- 11:21 AM
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WiFi protocol flaw allows attackers to hijack network traffic

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a fundamental security flaw in the design of the IEEE 802.11 WiFi protocol standard, allowing attackers to trick access points into leaking network frames in plaintext form.
- Bill Toulas
- March 28, 2023
- 03:05 PM
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NordVPN makes its Meshnet private tunnel free for everyone

NordVPN's Meshnet private tunnel feature for Windows, macOS, and Linux is now free for everyone, even users who do not have a subscription to NordVPN.
- Bill Toulas
- March 13, 2023
- 07:01 PM
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Brave Search launches AI-powered summarizer in search results

Brave Search has incorporated a new AI-powered tool named Summarizer, which gives a summarized answer to an inputted question before the rest of the search results.
- Bill Toulas
- March 03, 2023
- 11:46 AM
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Bermuda hit by major internet and power outage

Bermuda experienced a widespread power outage on Friday which impacted the island's internet and phone services. Calling it a "serious incident" at BELCO, the Bermudian power supplier, the government has advised customers to "unplug all sensitive electrical equipment" as crews work around the clock on restoration efforts.
- Ax Sharma
- February 03, 2023
- 11:27 PM
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BleepingComputer's most popular technology stories of 2022

2022 is over, and it's been filled with a wide assortment of stories ranging from the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine to the many bugs introduced by Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for Windows.
- Lawrence Abrams
- January 02, 2023
- 11:07 AM
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BlackProxies proxy service increasingly popular among hackers

A new residential proxy market is becoming popular among hackers, cybercriminals, phishers, scalpers, and scammers, selling access to a million claimed proxy IP addresses worldwide.
- Bill Toulas
- December 02, 2022
- 01:56 PM
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Z-Library eBook site domains seized by U.S. Dept of Justice

Internet domains for the popular Z-Library online eBook repository were seized early this morning by the U.S. Department of Justice, preventing easy access to the service.
- Bill Toulas
- November 04, 2022
- 01:53 PM
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Internet connectivity worldwide impacted by severed fiber cables in France

A major Internet cable in the South of France was severed yesterday at 20:30 UTC, impacting subsea cable connectivity to Europe, Asia, and the United States and causing data packet losses and increased website response latency.
- Bill Toulas
- October 20, 2022
- 09:25 AM
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Over 80% of the top websites leak user searches to advertisers

Security researchers at Norton Labs have found that roughly eight out of ten websites featuring a search bar will leak their visitor's search terms to online advertisers like Google.
- Bill Toulas
- September 08, 2022
- 10:27 AM
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Pirate sites ban in Austria took down Cloudflare CDNs by mistake

Excessive and indiscriminate blocking is underway in Austria, with internet service providers (ISPs) complying to a court order to block pirate sites causing significant collateral damage.
- Bill Toulas
- August 29, 2022
- 12:22 PM
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