Archive for the ‘Servers’ Category

Protecting Your Remote Workers

Monday, February 1st, 2021

It’s been almost a year now, since the pandemic seemingly turned our worlds upside-down in what was seemingly an instant.  Many workers who had never worked remotely began doing so on a regular basis.  And while that was immensely helpful in curtailing the spread of the physical virus, e-viruses have flourished, as anyone with even […]

How Safe is Your VPN?

Monday, April 20th, 2020

Working from home during the global pandemic has allowed the nations of the world to keep their economies limping along while they search for a fix, but it has come with a price.  Many remote workers’ home offices are utilizing Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs, to to log in, but they lack the level of […]

Mozilla’s Firefox’s Default DoH

Wednesday, February 26th, 2020

Beginning today, February 25, 2020, Mozilla will now automatically send all of their US-based customers’ DNS queries to Cloudflare DNS servers, as opposed to the default DNS servers set by their users via their new feature, DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH). DoH executes DNS look-ups over an encrypted server instead of just sending them over plaintext, making it […]

United Nations Hack and Cover-Up

Friday, January 31st, 2020

Not only has it been leaked that the UN was hacked, but there’s also evidence suggesting they tried to cover it up. What We Know According to a confidential internal document that was leaked to The New Humanitarian and shared with the  Associated Press (AP), more than 40 servers in Geneva and Vienna were compromised.  […]

Over 400 Million Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers Found Online

Wednesday, September 11th, 2019

A server without password protection gave anyone access to more than 419 million Facebook users’ private information globally.   Each accessible record contained a user’s Facebook ID, phone number, and location.  Some even had the user’s name. This latest in a long string of incidents for Facebook exposed millions of users to significant risk to spam […]