Flickr says Creative Commons photos won’t be subject to 1,000 picture limit
On November 1st, 2018 Flickr announced that they would be limiting free accounts to just 1,000 pictures. But it recently made an exception: that...
EU cancels the final vote negotiations on EU copyright bill amidst massive protests
EU’s proposed copyright bill has received major oppositions from Europeans for its Articles 11 and 13, also known as the “censorship machines” rule and...
Cross-site Request Forgery
In this article by Y.E Liang, the author of JavaScript Security, we will cover cross-site forgery. This topic is not exactly new. In this...
Predictive cybersecurity company Balbix secures $20M investment
High profile security attacks have put cybersecurity high on the agenda. For most companies it's at best a headache and at worst a full-blown...
PureScript npm installer’s infected dependencies prevented it from running successfully
Earlier this month Harry Garrood, a PureScript maintainer found that PureScript’s npm installer is infected by some malicious code. Though the issue is now...
Five Biggest Challenges in Information Security in 2017
Living in the digital age brings its own challenges. News of security breaches in well-known companies is becoming a normal thing. In the battle...
US Department of Homeland security releases an ‘emergency directive’ to combat DNS tampering
Yesterday, the Department of Homeland security issued an emergency directive with the subject, “Mitigate DNS Infrastructure Tampering” and ordering the federal agencies to comply...
The DPM Feature Set
Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010
A practical step-by-step guide to planning deployment, installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of Data Protection Manager 2010 with this book and...
“621 U.S. government, schools, and healthcare entities are impacted by ransomware attacks since January’19”,...
A report released by antivirus company Emisoft on October 1 sheds light on the increase in ransomware attacks on government and municipal entities. Per...
RubyGems strong_password v0.0.7 hijacked; infected thread and attacker account isolated for now
Last week, a developer Tute Costa notified Ruby users that the strong_password v0.0.7 rubygem has been hijacked. The malicious actor published v0.0.7 containing the...