U.S. Gov Issues Urgent Warning of DNS Hijacking Attacks

An emergency directive from the Department of Homeland Security provides “required actions” for U.S. government agencies to prevent widespread DNS hijacking attacks. Continue reading U.S. Gov Issues Urgent Warning of DNS Hijacking Attacks

Alert Service Compromised to Send Out Spam Message

An unknown individual compromised an alert service and abused their access to send out a spam message to some of the service’s customers. The Queenland Early Warning Network (EWN) alert service disclosed first in a Facebook post and later on its … Continue reading Alert Service Compromised to Send Out Spam Message

Popup Notification Dinosaur

There’s a lot going on our virtual spaces, and anyone with a smart phone can attest to this fact. There are pop-up notifications for everything you can imagine, and sometimes it’s possible for the one really important notification to get lost in a sea of minutiae. To really make sure you don’t miss that one important notification, you can offload that task to your own personal dinosaur.

The 3D-printed dinosaur has a rack-and-pinion gear set that allows it to extend upwards when commanded. It also has a set of LEDs for eyes that turn on when it pops up. The …read more

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Automatically Resize an Azure VM

In this “how to” post, Aidan Finn shows you how to use Azure Automation to scale up (increase) or scale down (decrease) the size of an Azure virtual machine.

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Firefox to collaborate with HaveIBeenPwned to alert users on data breach

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Mozilla is joining hands with popular data breach notification website HaveIBeenPwned.com
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Security researchers call for calm after DHS warns of energy grid hacking

A government security alert about foreign hackers probing the networks of U.S. energy companies frightened casual observers, but security experts say the report provided little more than an update on relatively well-known activity and behavior. The alert, released late last week by the Department of Homeland Security, mentions evidence of a hacker group — originally identified by U.S. cybersecurity firm Symantec and codenamed “Dragonfly 2.0” — working to compromise the front office networks of industrial firms. This activity is confined to the targeting, and in some cases compromise, of business networks by hackers largely through the deployment of phishing emails and strategic website compromises; also known as watering hole style attacks. FBI & DHS: massive hacking campaign underway attacking American energy, nuclear, water, aviation, construction & manufacturing sectors. — Jose Pagliery (@Jose_Pagliery) October 21, 2017 Though the information offered by the government may be helpful for some cybersecurity professionals, it is far from […]

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TV broadcasts in California interrupted to show “end of the world” alert

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Gear up for Armageddon- Strange Warning Messages Startled TV Viewers

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