Network security giant Cloudflare said it will provide its security tools and services to U.S. political campaigns for free, as part of its efforts to secure upcoming elections against cyberattacks and election interference. From a report: The company said its new Cloudflare for Campaigns offering will include distributed denial-of-service attack mitigation, load balancing for campaign websites, a website firewall, and anti-bot…
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Adobe Brings One of Its Last Legacy Products To the Cloud
Adobe unveiled a cloud-based system to help clients build websites, bringing one of its last legacy products to the cloud almost a decade after shifting to internet-based software. From a report: The new content management system already is being used by some customers, the San Jose, California-based company said Monday in a statement. The software maker announced the service at the…
Mozilla Says a New Firefox Security Bug is Under Active Attack
Mozilla has warned Firefox users to update their browser to the latest version after security researchers found a vulnerability that hackers were actively exploiting in “targeted attacks” against users. From a report: The vulnerability, found by Chinese security company Qihoo 360, was found in Firefox’s just-in-time compiler. The compiler is tasked with speeding up performance of JavaScript to make websites load…
Google Assistant Passes 500 Million Users
One day after Amazon announced that it has populated the world with over 100 million Alexa-powered devices, Google decided to take the opportunity to tout some of its numbers. At CES 2020 on Tuesday, the company said that the Google Assistant is now used by 500 million monthly active users. VentureBeat reports of the new features coming to the digital assistant…
Facebook’s First CES Reveal In Years Is a Privacy Tool That Falls Short
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: At CES 2020, Facebook plans to show off an innovative new concept for the company: privacy. It will have a booth at the tech show for giving demos on its updated Privacy Checkup tool, which it announced Monday morning. This is the first significant update to Facebook’s Privacy Checkup tool since it was…
GirlsDoPorn: Young Women Win Legal Battle Over Video Con
A U.S. judge has awarded $12.8 million to 22 unnamed women, ruling that they were tricked into appearing in widely distributed online porn videos. The BBC reports: Some of the models duped by the owners and operators of the GirlsDoPorn website had become suicidal, he said. They were told the videos were for a private collector or overseas DVDs, according to…
EarthSky’s 2020 meteor shower guide
All you need to know about major meteor showers in 2020. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/earthskys-meteor-shower-guide…
US Retailers Rush To Comply With California Privacy Law
U.S. retailers including Walmart will add “Do Not Sell My Info” links to their websites and signage in stores starting Jan. 1, allowing California shoppers to understand for the first time what personal and other data the retailers collect, Reuters reported Tuesday citing sources. From the report: Others like Home Depot will allow shoppers not just in California but around the…
How Tech Companies Could Skirt California’s Strict New Privacy Law
Forty million Californians “will soon have sweeping digital-privacy rights stronger than any seen before in the U.S.,” reports the Associated Press, saying the new law taking effect Wednesday “might end up serving as a de facto national standard.” “Early signs of compliance have already started cropping up in the form of ‘Don’t sell my personal information’ links at the bottom of…
How a Fake Murder-For-Hire Site Led To Real Convictions
Harper’s profiles sys-admin Chris Monteiro, who moonlights as a white-hat hacker monitoring dark web sites claiming to offer murder-for-hire services. For example, he tipped off one local police department to a $5,000 bitcoin payment someone made to try to arrange the murder of a teenaged girl on a site run by someone named “Yura”. [U]sers set up an anonymous account, select…