A new security research released by Incapsula has revealed that hundreds of surveillance cameras are being used to perpetrate a massive disruption of Internet services through a network of botnets.
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Microsoft is pinning its future on cloud computing
Quite unsurprisingly, Microsoft’s revenue from smartphone and Windows sales has tremendously dwindled in its latest earnings report. But this failure has been spared from the wrath of investors as the company performed well in another area of technology, the cloud.
Hackers could infiltrate the IRS fraud detection system anytime
Hackers spare nobody in their attacks, not even the most robust government information security infrastructure.
Windows 10’s data collection activity poses risk to privacy
Experts warn that the mandatory collection of user data such as location and keyboard input by Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system for desktop is exposing users to a variety of privacy risks.
Western Digital external hard drives found to contain security flaws
Western Digital, a manufacturer of self-encrypting external hard drives, is facing a crisis in reputation. Academic researchers have uncovered a critical security flaw in the company’s self-encrypting external hard drives.
As SHA2 implementation nears, developing nations may face Internet access roadblocks
Millions of Internet users across the world are facing the dire possibility of losing permission to access majority of websites that run the HTTPS protocol, or are encrypted, with the impending implementation of the SHA2 encryption by 2016.
