A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Microsoft’s quest to create a powerful quantum computer comes closer to reality with the help of an elementary particle.
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The best way to determine if your web site has built in vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit is to hack your website yourself. This is not typically a do-it-yourself project, unless you have some decent technical skills. But with a little time and a few free downloadable tools, it could be something you could try, if for no ...
Now that you understand why your website may have been hijacked, you want to know if your website has been hijacked. Finding out your website has been hijacked is not necessarily easy. Sometimes site owners think they have been attacked, when it was something innocuous. But discovery of a hijack can happen a number of different ways, and many of them can be embarrassing.
If you own a small business, you have a website. Would you be surprised to learn that your site is a top target of cyber-criminals? Most people believe their business is too small and insignificant to be interesting to attackers, but your website is valuable to them precisely because it is small.
What makes a small business website an attractive target? It is ...
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We have more attorneys per person in America than any other country on the planet. This causes problems, because there are too many attorneys chasing too few ambulances, and not enough real attorney work to go around. It has long been my contention that the attorneys we elect to public office, in the Legislatures, Courts, and Executive branches of our governments are the ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.In June 2015, a British boy named Kane Gamble—who was 15 years old then—targeted CIA heads and FBI directors and gained ...
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When web bots attack, what websites are the most likely to targets? We discussed automated attacks against websites last month. Here is some new information from Distil Networks about who the main targets have been in the recent past. If your business is included in the following list, you may want to ramp up the security posture of your website and web hosting account.
The industries targeted ...
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We all understand that HTTPS site are “secure” and HTTP sites are not. Google has been urging web site owners and managers to covert their plain HTTP sites to HTTPS for several years now, as part of an industry wide plan to use encryption in more places. Coming by July 18 of this year, Google’s browser Chrome version 68 will be flagging HTTP ...
Firefox 59, the latest version of Mozilla’s popular web browser, has several privacy and security improvements that users may be interested in. Our standard recommendation is always to use the newest browser versions, so upgrading to Firefox 59 should be a no-brainer.
Firefox 59 had added an option to block the most serious privacy concerns in a new Settings menu. You can find the available options by opening the Settings menu (the “stack of ...
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