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A cybersecurity professional today demonstrated a long-known unpatched weakness in Microsoft’s Azure cloud service by exploiting it to take control over Windows Live Tiles, one of the key features Microsoft built into Windows 8 operating system.
Intro… Continue reading Researcher Hijacks a Microsoft Service Using Loophole in Azure Cloud Platform
How do fraudsters exploit abandoned domains to steal your company’s secrets? How can you better protect your privacy when looking for love online? And who has the longest arms in the animal kingdom?
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition … Continue reading Smashing Security #093: Abandoned domains and dating app dangers
Be on your guard if your company has received an order which appears to come from a UK university email address.
That’s the advice of Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting service for fraud and financially-motivated cybercrime, after it saw a marke… Continue reading UK university domains spoofed in massive fraud campaign targeting suppliers
A German web-hosting firm has suffered a severe data breach because one of its employees reportedly owed money to the attacker. The company only learned of the breach when the hacker announced it himself, on its support forum. On Jan. 29, the attacker … Continue reading Vengeful hacker exposes DomainFactory customer banking data and passwords
Besides Timehop, another data breach was discovered last week that affects users of one of the largest web hosting companies in Germany, DomainFactory, owned by GoDaddy.
The breach initially happened back in last January this year and just emerged las… Continue reading DomainFactory Hacked—Hosting Provider Asks All Users to Change Passwords
A squatter bought it and owned it for a month Continue reading Dell forgot to renew the domain it uses for PC backups
If only they’d hit auto-renew Continue reading How forgetting to renew a domain name cost $3m
The very last thing you want to happen is for potential customers to be told anything off-message as you undertake a major launch of your product.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Business Insights blog.
Continue reading Learn a lesson from Nissan – own your brand’s website domain, or else…
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Since the foundation of the Internet, a contract has been handed over to the United States Commerce Department under which the department had given authority to regulate the Internet.
After 47 years, this contract ends tonight at midnight EDT i.e. Sat… Continue reading United States set to Hand Over Control of the Internet to ICANN Today