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Gartner: Despite the DDoS attacks, don’t give up on Dyn or DNS service providers

November 2, 2016/in Mobile Security

The DDoS attacks that flooded Dyn last month and knocked some high-profile Web sites offline don’t mean businesses should abandon it or other DNS service providers, Gartner says.

In fact, the best way to go is to make sure critical Web sites are backed by more than one DNS provider, says Gartner analyst Bob Gill.

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Will mobile security fall to the platform providers? | ZDNet – ZDNet

September 30, 2016/in Mobile Security

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The future of mobile security rests with platform providers, Adrian Ludwig, lead engineer for Android security at Google, argued at the Structure Security …

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Symantec partners with hosting providers to offer free TLS certificates to website owners

March 15, 2016/in Computer Security

Symantec wants to see the encrypted Web grow and will offer free basic SSL/TLS certificates to domain owners through Web hosting companies that join its new Encryption Everywhere program.

The company has already signed partnerships with more than ten hosting providers, including InterNetX, CertCenter, Hostpoint and Zoned in Europe, and is close to finalizing deals with ten others. The customers of those companies will receive a basic website encryption package that includes a standard TLS certificate valid for one year.

Depending on their needs, customers will also be able to opt for paid premium packages that include extended validation (EV) certificates or wildcard certificates that are valid for multiple websites hosted on different subdomains.

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Ransom attacks likely to fade as small email providers resist

November 13, 2015/in Computer Security

The spate of cyberattacks against email providers is likely to pass with time as they refuse to pay ransoms. But that doesn’t mean the attacks haven’t cost them.

Since early this month, the list of companies that have been attacked has grown longer: first ProtonMail of Switzerland, followed by HushMail, RunBox, VFEmail, Zoho and FastMail of Australia.

The companies have typically received extortion requests by email asking for 10 or 20 bitcoins in exchange for not being subjected to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

DDoS attacks involve sending a large amount of data traffic to a company’s network, causing the service to choke and go offline.

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