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Web security company inadvertently aids HMRC phishing attack
Web security company M86 Security Labs, which is now part of TrustWave SpiderLabs, is inadvertently helping fraudsters to carry out phishing attacks against HM Revenue & Customs. The text within...
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March 2015 Web Server Survey
In the March 2015 survey we received responses from 878,346,052 sites and 5,192,428 web-facing computers. Although the total number of websites fell by 5 million this month, the number of web-facing...
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Rank Performance Graph OS Outagehh:mm:ss FailedReq% DNS Connect Firstbyte Total 1 Bigstep Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.113 0.063 0.127 0.128 2 Netcetera Windows Server 2012 0:00:00 0.000 0.056 0.084 0.168...
View ArticleCritical Windows vulnerability affects at least 70 million websites
The race is on to patch nearly a million Windows web servers, following the publication of code that can identify the presence of a serious vulnerability announced by Microsoft on Tuesday. The critical...
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Google’s April Fool’s prank inadvertently broke their security
As part of its traditional series of April Fool's day jokes, Google used its own .google gTLD to launch a backwards version of its home page from the domain com.google on 1st April. However, this...
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April 2015 Web Server Survey
In the April 2015 survey we received responses from 849,027,856 sites and 5,228,046 web-facing computers. Despite the sustained decline in the total number of sites, the number of web-facing computers...
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Hostinger hosts over 90% of all Steam phishing sites
Netcraft blocked more than 1,400 Steam phishing URLs last month, spread across 331 different websites. Surprisingly, more than 90% of these sites were hosted by just one company: Hostinger. With more...
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Instagram forgets to renew its SSL certificate
Instagram's SSL certificate expired at midday GMT on Thursday 30th April 2015 and was not replaced for more than an hour, leaving visitors unable to access the site without seeing browser warnings....
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DigitalOcean becomes the second largest hosting company in the world
DigitalOcean has grown to become the second-largest hosting company in the world in terms of web-facing computers, and shows no signs of slowing down. The virtual private server provider has shown...
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Rank Performance Graph OS Outagehh:mm:ss FailedReq% DNS Connect Firstbyte Total 1 Datapipe Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.094 0.012 0.025 0.033 2 GoDaddy.com Inc Linux 0:00:00 0.004 0.106 0.009 0.170 0.170 3...
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