This week’s #AxisOfEasy had a few topics lined up, such as comedian John Oliver’s epic rant about net neutrality crashing the web servers of the U.S FCC (again), but forget all that. Everything has taken a back seat to the WanaCrypt0r (a.k.a “WanaCry”, or “WannaCrypt”) Ransomware Worm. WanaCry broke out overnight May 11th and quickly […]
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Facebook Ads Targeting Teens Based On Emotional State
In this issue: Facebook ads targeting teens based on emotional state Hackers hit French President-elect Marcon in massive document dump Over 1 billion user logins and passwords leaked in Anti Public and Exploit.In dumps Facebook ads targeting teens based on emotional state Last week a report surfaced that Facebook told advertisers it could deliver highly […]
DoublePulsar: The Leaked NSA Exploit Kit Spreading In The Wild
This is your #AxisOfEasy Weekly Briefing for the week of May 1, 2017, wherein Mark sends out a short briefing on the state of the ‘net and how it affects whatever your business, security and privacy. Comments always appreciated, just hit “reply” or leave a comment below. In this issue: DoublePulsar: The Leaked NSA Exploit Kit Spreading in the wild Uber employs private […]
[RFO] Reason For Outage May 1, 2017
Yesterday we experienced an outage affecting the main easyDNS website, the control panel, easyMail and mail forwarding. The cause was a corrupted database in our core DB cluster. As expedient as it might be to blame the root cause on Russian state-sponsored hackers, the reality is that it was caused by operator error. A sysadmin was […]
Is Google stealing your content?
In this issue: Is Google stealing your content? New legislation proposes $20/tax per device for uncensored internet viewing. Cybercriminals use DNS hack to takeover Brazilian bank Is Google stealing your content? For some time now you’ve probably noticed when you type a simplistic question into Google, like “What is the 5th planet from the sun?”, “Who was […]
Unscheduled server maintenance on easyWEB (cpanel5)
We have had a hardware event which has caused one of our easyWEB systems (cpanel5.easyweb.com) to be taken offline temporarily. We are working to get this sorted as soon as possible. This particular system is on our older easyWEB infrastructure and is slated to be replaced by one of our new systems on our easyWEB […]
