SANS Internet Storm Diary is reporting a dramatic increase in the scanning for a vulnerability in the CMS Movable Type – software similar in function to WordPress for the development of web sites and web content. Scans for Movable Type Vulnerability (CVE-2021-20837) – SANS Internet Storm Centre National Vulnerability Database …
TLS certificates are what internet trust is built on
Russia has created it’s own TLS certificate organisation and has started issuing these security and trust certificates to Russian sites, who can no longer access issuing authorities outside of the country, because of sanctions. Moscow to issue TLS certificates to Russian websites • The Register
So you have turned off cookie tracking – here is how unscrupulous websites circumvent that – and a possible solution
I am sure you, like me, have disabled cookie tracking in all your browsers. However I am always wary of a software solution, as someone will always write code to circumvent the solution and of course that is what unscrupulous websites have done to re-enable third party tracking cookies on …
Amplification of DDoS attacks – bad news day
With the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine taking up bandwidth on the internet this new technique for exponentially expanding the effectiveness of a distributed denial of service attack against website is not good news. New method that amplifies DDoSes by 4 billion-fold. What could go wrong? | Ars Technica …
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Privacy Enhancements
As part of the “weekend read” and because the BBC promoted a version of it’s news via the privacy enhanced Tor network, I have gathered together some links describing further software and configurations designed to keep your information private. “Browse Privately. Explore Freely.” Tor Project | Anonymity Online Privacy when …
