The time has come to say goodbye to Barcelona as we wrap up our time here at Mobile World Congress (MWC). Although it’s hard to believe that the show is already over, MWC 2019 managed to deliver a slew of showstoppers that captured our attention. Here are some of my main takeaways from the event: […]
Bots now account for 39.9% of all ticketing traffic, mostly originating in North America. While bots are a problem across many industries, the ticketing industry has experienced a dramatic increase in such traffic over the past couple of years. And much of that bad traffic occurs in our own backyard, with 85% of bots launched […]
Share this: A few years back, my fledgling website design agency was starting to take shape; however, we had one problem: managing clients’ web servers and code deployments. We were unable to build a streamlined process of provisioning servers and maintaining operating system security patches. We had the development cycle down pat, but server management […]
A 20-year-old Illinois man has pleaded guilty to running multiple DDoS-for-hire services that launched millions of attacks over several years. The plea deal comes almost exactly five years after KrebsOnSecurity interviewed both the admitted felon and his father and urged the latter to take a more active interest in his son’s online activities. Sergiy P. […]
Employees use their mobile devices to be proactive and stay connected in both their personal and work lives. The movement to the cloud has allowed employees to check email, download documents, and share information that may contain sensitive information, even when they’re not on an enterprise network. Businesses must protect their enterprise environments and combat […]
The service became notorious for its use by ne’er-do-wells looking to make a quick buck by hijacking the processing power of victim machines to generate virtual money Coinhive, a cryptocurrency mining service that rose to infamy after it began to be co-opted for cryptojacking campaigns in 2017, is shutting down. In a short blog post […]
In recent years the one of the Internet’s leading oversight bodies, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), has moved from a non-profit seen to be controlled by the U.S. to one that increasingly is making room for the participation of other countries. Its multi-stakeholder process is now one of the reasons ICANN […]
For web designers today, creating a website can mean a whole lot than just functionality, usability and aesthetic appeal. Today, every new-born website requires a thorough integration of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) protocols to become crawlable and get indexed by search engines such as Google. A good website can attract great amounts of traffic. However, […]
Roughly one year ago, KrebsOnSecurity published a lengthy investigation into the individuals behind Coinhive[.]com, a cryptocurrency mining service that has been heavily abused to force hacked Web sites to mine virtual currency. On Tuesday, Coinhive announced plans to pull the plug on the project early next month. A message posted to the Coinhive blog on Tuesday, […]
Toronto-based managed services provider and colocation provider Cogeco Peer 1 has a new owner today after being sold by Cogeco Communications Inc. to Digital Colony for $720 million, according to a report by The Canadian Press. The new ownership structure will see Cogeco Peer 1 “become a standalone business,” according to a LinkedIn post by […]