Weekly Axis Of Easy #40 Aloha from Oahu… In this issue: Have you checked your credit report since the Equifax hack? FBI pays Geeksquad to inform on its customers Researcher discovers “Killswitch” to neutralize the memcache DDoS Google’s AI is helping military drones get better at their job Why the DoD works with Hollywood to […]
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Major PHP Vulnerability Can Allow Remote Code Execution
Weekly Axis Of Easy #39 Seems like all kinds of fit hit the shan last week, in this issue: Major PHP vulnerability can allow remote code execution EU wants ISPs to delete “terrorist content” within 1 hour China bans Orwell’s “Animal Farm” and… the letter “N” Surprise! Tor project was funded by the US Government […]
Apple To Store iCloud Private Keys In China
Weekly Axis Of Easy #38 In this issue: Apple will store iCloud private keys in China New Zealand spills the beans: releases full text of TPP Twitter purges thousands of “Russian bot” accounts, Conservatives scream “foul” Hackernoon: Your Facebook data is creepy as hell TIL that the Italian Government has an automated “tax snitch” software […]
UK Police Commence “on-the-spot” Fingerprint Scanning
Weekly Axis Of Easy #37 In this issue: Belgian court orders Facebook to stop collecting personal data Google Chrome’s ad blocker may give preferential treatment to…Google US Federal judge rules embedding a tweet may be copyright infringement UK police commence “on-the-spot” fingerprint scanning. IRS scam has fraudsters posing as collection agency recovering bogus tax […]
Upcoming change in outbound email policy
As part of our ongoing attempt to combat spam within our email systems, on Monday Feb 26th we will be changing our postfix configuration settings to prohibit email being sent from addresses with domains which don’t match the account logging in. Our previous practice of allowing an authenticated account to specify whatever “from” headers they […]
Domain Hijack Strands Thousands Of Businesses
Weekly Axis Of Easy #36 In this issue: China to block overseas VPNs Domain hijack strands thousands of businesses Twitter’s mysterious astroturfing tools This little start-up sells hacks to government agencies Wordpress update breaks Wordpress updates China to block overseas VPNs At the end of March all non-Chinese VPN services will be blocked within China. […]
