When the Internet apocalypse comes, your smart thermostat may be to blame. That’s the lesson from last week’s epic Internet outage, in which attackers used Internet-connected devices inside peoples homes to bring a large chunk of the Web to its knees. The outage, which mainly affected the East coast of the U.S., struck on Friday …
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On Friday, a botnet army, launched from internet-enabled everyday things like printers and cameras, attacked and temporarily hobbled a critical part of the internet. Fortune’s John Jeff Roberts has a must-read take on what happened, what to do now, and who’s to blame. (Turns out, it’s partly you and me. Yikes.) That brought me back …
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Credit: Courtesy Amazon A cold beer, some brown liquor, or a glass of red wine will usually do the trick at the end of a long, hard day. But sometimes we don’t want a simple, familiar flavor. Sometimes we want to unwind with a complicated drink with different notes that hit us in a different …
Major websites across the internet were unavailable to millions of users on Friday, as a massive cyber-attack shut down such popular destinations as PayPal, Netflix, Twitter, Reddit and Spotify. The attack employed thousands of web cameras, DVRs and other internet-enabled household devices, which were infected by malware. Internet security experts have long warned that devices …
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Smart devices are thought to be responsible for major hack last week Experts had previously warned of lax security on connected devices Hangzhou Xiongmai webcams are thought to be among the devices involved in last week’s cyber attack. They are being recalled in the US By Libby Plummer For Mailonline Published: 09:14 EST, 24 October 2016 | Updated: 09:33 …
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During Friday’s massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on DNS service provider Dyn, one might be forgiven for mistaking the maps of network outages for images of some post-apocalyptic nuclear fallout. Screenshots from sites like downdetector.com showed menacingly red, fuzzy heat maps of, well, effectively just population centers of the United States experiencing serious …
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Morning Reads: More Media […] An AT&T store is seen on 5th Avenue in New York on October 23, 2016. AT&T unveiled a mega-deal for Time Warner that would transform the telecom giant into a media-entertainment powerhouse. (KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images) We produce this news digest every weekday. You can sign up to receive these updates …
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With help from Eric Geller, Martin Matishak, Darren Samuelsohn and Li Zhou DNS UNDER DURESS — Friday’s massive, multi-part attack on the domain name system provider Dyn brought into stark relief the importance and fragility of the internet’s directory system, heightening fears that highly disruptive DDoS attacks will become more common. The digital assault — …
Fighting cybercrime is going to be a never ending battle,(Photo: iStockphoto) October is National Cyber Security Awareness month and a good time to consider what the threats to our cybersecurity are and what we can and should be doing about them. Sometimes it seems like the problems of cybersecurity are overwhelming, but with concerted efforts …
Amazon.com, Inc. (ticker: AMZN) does pretty much everything retail. What started as an online bookseller quickly expanded into other product verticals like electronics, clothing and toys, and eventually morphed into an all-encompassing web store with virtually every legal product you can imagine. AMZN even helped put a few billion-dollar businesses — RadioShack, Borders and Circuit …
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