I’m in Greece
So my real job has brought me to Chania, Greece on the Isle of Crete. Here’s a couple cool pictures.
Read MoreMonth: October 2016
Congressional Blunder – Senate calls wrong CEO to testify in Time Warner merger hearing
In their latest blunder the Senate has called the wrong CEO to testify in the ATT/Time Warner merger hearings. As reported by CNET, it seems the Senate called Rob Marcus, the former CEO of Time Warner Cable, instead of Jeff...
Read More” Celebgate” hacker gets 18 MOS, We’ve learned nothing.
Today CNET, among other outlets is reporting that the man behind the “CelebGate” ( AKA, “The Fappening” phishing scam that lead to the release of nude photos of celebrities, was sentenced to 18 months...
Read MoreIOT DDOS attack shows dangers
Todays Internet of Things (IoT) based DDOS attack against DNS Service provider DYN brought caused outages at several prominent websites. Reuters published a great piece on the attacks, however, something significant and alarming...
Read MoreMassive DDOS caused outages for Twitter, several other major websites
It has been a rough day for Managed DNS provider Dynamic Network Services, more commonly known as Dyn, and many of their largest clients. Their engineers have been combating a series of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks, or...
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