by wwarren | Oct 1, 2016 | Cloud Computing, DDOS, Internet, IOT, Security, Security Alerts
Krebonsecurity editor Brian Krebs now posts showing the source code for the botnet that forced Akamai/Prolexic to boot him off their network. What is amazing is that while Prolexic was struggling to handle nearly 700 megabits there was another even larger DDOS going...
by wwarren | Sep 26, 2016 | Cloud Computing, DDOS, Internet, IOT, Security
I have been watching the saga of security blogger Brian Krebs and his krebsonsecurity blog. He has had the benefit of high powered DDOS protection from Prolexic which is an Akamai subsidiary. Krebs has for a long time now been able to infiltrate and report on the...
by wwarren | Sep 20, 2016 | Hosting, Internet, Services
I just had an interesting conversation with my web design partner Lori Curley of Curley Marketing. Third party analytics have gotten caught in the ad blocking drag net. This means the numbers form third party apps like Google Analytics and Clicky analytics can be...
by wwarren | Sep 14, 2016 | General, Internet, Security, Security Alerts
AdBlockPlus now means we will blocks ads PLUS give you ads folks pay them to allow. I saw the initial link at hackernews but the full story is on theverge. A couple of years ago I heard that the company behind ADB+ wanted to start allowing certain ads through for...
by wwarren | Jun 21, 2016 | Internet, Microsoft, Windows, Windows 10
I can verify the author’s experiences below. I have a Surface 3 and an HP laptop running windows 10. I also have a shuttle box with a sandy bridge core i-3 cpu and 8 gigs of ram. Edge is a total hog. It will grab everything in ram it can and then force the...
by wwarren | Jun 20, 2016 | Internet, Ransomware, Security, Security Alerts
Windows has issues that make it easy for this type of infection to take hold: Javascript once it gets onto the system is run by the Windows Scripting Host which has a very high level of system access. Windows hides file extensions so the .js extension...
