A new legislation, ‘Protecting Cyber Networks Act’ has been Passed in the US, to help companies and the federal government better defend against the growing threat of cyberattacks, despite opposition from privacy advocates. According to cnet.com(1) it was “prompted in part by a recent uptick in high-profile data breaches, the legislation would allow companies to share information […]
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Microsoft to Stop Supporting older versions of Internet Explorer in January 2016.
Microsoft to Stop Supporting older versions of Internet Explorer in January 2016. I think a lot of us remember when Internet Explorer was the dominant browser, way back when there was little or no competition, in 2002 Internet Explorer had 85% of the market share with the rest divided between Netscape and AOL. This fell […]
Playstation and Xbox networks attacked on Christmas day by a DDOS attack
Lizard Squad have claimed the responsibility for taking down PlayStation and Xbox networks on Christmas day, saying it has made both networks unavailable with Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks (overloading servers) Emil Protalinski(1) report that “Lizard Squad has declared it will no longer attack Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony’s PlayStation Network, as well as denied claims […]