International non-profit the Internet Society (ISOC) has taken a long look at global online security, and it does not like what it sees. In a new report, prompted by a ...
November 28, 2016 at 9:00 pm by Ashley Allen
On Friday (21st October), a malicious party was responsible for a huge DDoS attack on Managed DNS infrastructure provider Dyn, taking out sites like Twitter, SoundCloud, ...
October 23, 2016 at 11:00 pm by Ashley Allen
A proposal by the UK internet watchdog National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to filter internet content at the DNS level has been dubbed the “Great Firewall of Great ...
September 19, 2016 at 4:09 pm by Ashley Allen
We’ve all had that moment, those unwanted pop-ups and advertisements on your computer that make you suddenly realise “I’ve got a virus”. It’s one ...
January 20, 2016 at 3:17 pm by Gareth Andrews
Following its global rollout to over 130 countries, Netflix has been discussing the reality of its users bypassing geoblocked content via VPN services, admitting that it’s ...
January 12, 2016 at 4:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Anonymous has made recent news with taking part in and claiming hacks against several large groups, their latest campaign being targeted against ISIS (now more commonly known ...
December 27, 2015 at 10:00 am by Gareth Andrews
Someone actually tried the impossible on two separate occasions, to take down the internet’s backbone. They did ultimately fail for multiple reasons, but at the same ...
December 10, 2015 at 2:00 pm by Bohs Hansen
So we’ve all had those periods where we come home and think our stuff has been moved around, you know when you think you’ve put your keys down beside the door and ...
October 9, 2015 at 8:39 pm by Gareth Andrews
Grand Theft Auto is a franchise which has captured the imagination of fans with an engrossing open player world and also regular updates which never fail to entertain. But, ...
September 23, 2015 at 9:58 am by Christopher Files
A security engineer has found a vulnerability in popular pirate movie application Popcorn Time that could leave users’ devices open to being hacked by a ...
August 4, 2015 at 8:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Security experts are said to have found a new type of malware that attacks routers and injects unwanted ads and pornography into websites by modifying the router’s DNS ...
March 26, 2015 at 2:58 pm by Gabriel Roşu
Nubem, an emerging service providers in cloud computing technologies, has announced that it will start offering a Free Dynamic DNS service to all customers. For those who do ...
March 21, 2015 at 5:58 pm by Gabriel Roşu
It’s no secret that the MPAA are wanting to take stronger measures against piracy, but recent Sony leaks suggest they’re pushing to crack down even harder than ...
December 17, 2014 at 10:58 pm by Peter Donnell
Craigslist was knocked offline yesterday (Sunday) and at the time of writing, it still hasn’t come back. The suspected DNS hijack was previously redirecting visitors to ...
November 24, 2014 at 4:05 pm by Ryan Simmons
A number of Virgin Media customers found themselves starved of internet access last weekend, as a bug crashed the ISP’s child filtering system. The Websafe ...
November 11, 2014 at 1:01 pm by Ryan Simmons
