📅 - Mozilla has released a brand new tool for website owners to scan and assess their site's security called Observatory. This new tool was developed and tested internally, by Mozilla before it's launch, and seems to be working very well. Since Observatory's inception, over 90 percent of 1.4 million websites scanned have failed the tool's assessment.
Observatory works by first scanning the website for common security measures such as HTTPS, public key pinning, and cross-site scripting protection, and then grades the site from A+ to F.
According to a blog post by the Mozilla, most websites are not taking full advantage of modern security advances, including some of the most popular websites.
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📅 - Full Scope of Dropbox Hack Coming to Light - Dropbox, the cloud storage giant, reported being hacked back in 2012, but only today is the scale and true severity of the breach coming to light. When the incident took place, Dropbox reported that only a collection of user's email addresses had been stolen.
The full scope of the hack came to light when a dumped password database was discovered by Leakbase, a security notification service. 68 million users' email addresses and Dropbox passwords had been stolen, two-thirds of it's total accounts.
Last week, Dropbox sent out notifications to user's who had not changed their passwords since 2012.
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📅 - Cochin Web Host Introduces New SSD Hosting - Cochin Web Host recently announced their plans to introduce new SSD Hosting for their customers. It will be a part of their already wide range of hosting offers, which includes standard web hosting, email hosting, dedicated servers, VPS hosting and reseller hosting.
Cochin is headquartered in Cochin, Kerala, India and the new SSD hosting will be a premium service. The new offering is being made do help ensure high quality hosting from the company for its ...
📅 - Global Cloud Computing Company Huawei Looking to Sell - Huawei Technologies is looking to become a large player in the market for cloud computing gear and software. They have an aim of $10 billion in business by the close of 2020. Huawei is a Chinese company that's growing fast. They plan to keep investing in the cloud, while growing the server, chip and equipment supply side of their company.
The company has already started to work with foreign firms, such as Intel and SAP SE. Huawei isn't looking to compete with AWS or Google, as they want to actually supply the components for cloud infrastructure to companies in health care, education and other markets.
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📅 - Deutsche Telekom AG Sells iOS Spyware Detection App - Deutsche Telekom AG will begin selling an app that they claim would have helped protected it's users from the spy software that affected so many iOS devices worldwide last week.
“It would have detected last week's iOS attack,” Deutsche Telekom's T-Systems unit managing director Ferri Abolhassan said in an interview, “it works like a cardiogram for your mobile phone or tablet to protect you even from previously unknown threats.”
Deutch Telekom AG will release the app at the IFA technology conference Friday in Berlin.
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📅 - How do you Know When You’re Dealing with a Domain Name Shark? - You need a great domain name, but when you start searching, you find out it's already taken. Even though you have the trademark and own the rights to your business names, it's too late; someone else has registered your domain name.
While this could be an honest mistake, it could also be cybersquatting. Cybersquatting is when someone buys a domain name they know matches a trademarked name or even a person's name. This used to be very common, but it's not as common today because most brands already own the best domain name for them. However, this does happen sometimes.
How to Know if You're Dealing with a Domain Shark
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📅 - Microsoft Launching UK Data Centers Despite Brexit - After the UK voted to leave the European Union in June, there have been many concerns that fewer companies would be building new data centers in Britain. Now we can put some of those worries aside, Microsoft has announced the launch of cloud services in the region.
These are the first Microsoft data centers that support cloud services in the UK. Microsoft isn't alone, Amazon Web Services, the globe's largest cloud provider is also planning a UK data center to launch next year.