NoCrackingZone | Archives | 2018 | August

“Attack” on FCC over net neutrality was legitimate traffic, report says

An FCC Office of Inspector General (OIG) report has found no evidence of DDoS attacks on the FCC’s comments system.

DARPA’s MediaFor project has come up with tools it says can spot AI-created fakes.

Fortnite for Android will sidestep Google Play and be an “off market” experience – is that good or bad? We discuss the issues…

A chunk of Snapchat’s source code that wasn’t meant to be public just popped up on GitHub. Will this harm security?

Facebook says to banks: tell us who your customers are, and we’ll get them talking to you in Messenger.

A new study argues that bogging black hats down in fake flaws might be better approach to security.

Bitcoin and the Dark Web are familiar terms, but what are they and how do they help SamSam operate in plain sight?

Taiwan chipmaker TSMC is back up and running, and pinning the blame for its shutdown on an infection by WannaCry ransomware.

Is Mozilla’s enthusiasm for DNS-over-HTTPS getting out of hand?

Like it or not, the Play Store is a walled garden that keeps out malware.