Microsoft to begin SHA-1 crypto shutoff with Windows 10's summer upgrade
Microsoft last week outlined the timetable it will use to drop browser support for sites that secure traffic with SHA-1 certificates, part of an Internet-wide plan to rid the Internet of the weaker...
View ArticleCraig Wright claims he is bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto
Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright is bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, he claimed on his personal blog and in media interviews on Monday. Within hours, skeptics were pointing to flaws in his...
View ArticleOpera pulls trigger on baked-in ad blocker
Opera Software today released a production version of its flagship desktop browser with an integrated ad blocker, along with a similarly armed version of its Opera Mini for Android.In March, Opera...
View ArticleOpenSSL patches two high-severity flaws
OpenSSL has released versions 1.0.2h and 1.0.1t of its open source cryptographic library, fixing multiple security vulnerabilities that can lead to traffic being decrypted, denial-of-service attacks,...
View ArticleEthernet's future goes fast and slow
At the 2016 Interop show, David Chalupsky from the Ethernet Alliance chats with Network World about its six new data rates and 2016 Ethernet Roadmap. Chalupsky also explains why the networking standard...
View ArticleMethods hackers use to attack DNS
At 2016 Interop, Cloudmark Engineering Director Angela Knox talks with Network World about several different ways that hackers go after DNS as part of other malicious attacks. Knox explains the methods...
View ArticleWe can repair email -- but it’s going to hurt
As you may have noticed, I’ve been ruminating a lot about communications recently, specifically messaging and email. I’m not done. Messaging and email are the most ubiquitous methods of personal...
View ArticlePrivacy advocates want protections for US residents in foreign surveillance law
Congress should limit the ability of the FBI and other agencies to search for information about U.S. residents in a database of foreign terrorism communications collected by the National Security...
View Article4 big plans to fix internet security
The Internet is all-encompassing. Between mobile devices and work computers, we live our lives on it -- but our online existence has been tragically compromised by inadequate security. Any determined...
View ArticleFBI/Apple privacy fight left out a major player: the data carriers
The recent standoff between Apple and the FBI over the agency's demand that the company provide a way to unlock the iPhone of a dead terrorist, was "resolved" when the FBI "bought a tool," according to...
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