Europe to have its own public DNS to block illicit traffic

Europe to have its own public DNS to block illicit traffic

20 Feb 2022 - 03:19 PM

Europe will have a high-availability public DNS resolution service that will offer anti-malware protection and illegal content blocking, to counter the dominance of free non-European services such as Google Public DNS.  DNS resolution is a critical point when accessing any network service . The first step in establishing a connection on the Internet is to translate a domain name, which ...

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Microsoft succeeds in stopping the largest DDoS attack

Microsoft succeeds in stopping the largest DDoS attack

30 Jan 2022 - 10:47 PM

Bill Gates' company survived and defeated at the end of 2021 a DDoS attack where a traffic of 3.47 terabytes per second was gathered. A number never recorded in the history of attacks of this type. The flood of data designed to knock servers out of service is one of the crudest attacks available on the Internet. Over the years, hackers have been improving attacks, requiring less brute power...

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This is why you should not reuse your passwords

This is why you should not reuse your passwords

31 Dec 2021 - 07:50 AM

For years, cybersecurity specialists have been insisting on the importance of using strong passwords to protect our online accounts, and more and more people are using passwords with random, long and complex terms, alternating uppercase, lowercase, numbers and symbols. However, the mere use of complex passwords is not enough to guarantee the security of an account , as even the strongest passw...

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First-ever SMS sold for 107,000 euros

First-ever SMS sold for 107,000 euros

23 Dec 2021 - 06:58 PM

The first SMS in history, transmitted on 3 December 1992 by telephone operator Vodafone, was sold at auction in Paris on Tuesday in the form of a digital code for 107,000 euros (about 120,000 dollars), according to the Aguttes auction house. The curious piece, presented on a tablet, was acquired by a Canadian who works in the new technologies sector and whose identity was not specified. T...

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