Time’s almost out for 60 million websites

Despite months of reminders and warnings, more than one-third of websites will become inaccessible come 2017. There is barely a month left before major browsers start blocking websites using certificates signed with the SHA-1 hash, but 60 million-plus websites still rely on the insecure encryption algorithm, according to the latest estimates from security company Venafi…

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BREAKING: The DDoS attack that WILL bring your firewall down

DDoS attacks are usually based on pure volume of traffic flooding the Internet connections, and thereby denying services of any kind. Researchers from the Danish telecom operator TDC have identified and analysed a new kind of DDoS attack that only requires the attacker a limited bandwidth of 15-18 Mbit/sec to generate 40-50K packets/sec in order to bring down..

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