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China Is Now Blocking All Encrypted HTTPS Traffic That Uses TLS 1.3 And ESNI The block was put in place at the end of July and is enforced via China’s Great Firewall. The Chinese government has deployed an update to its national censorship tool, known as the Great Firewall (GFW), to block encrypted HTTPS connections
Google Home Erroneous Update Reveals The $450 Million ADT Deal What happens when your old budget smoke alarm suddenly becomes Google “smart”? This apparently happened last week when a Reddit user brazedowl shared something mysterious with the internet: “Burned something in the kitchen and the cheap $10 smoke detector went off. Then I got a notification on my phone
Google Banned 2500+ Chinese YouTube Channels For Disinformation Google says that it took down multiple coordinated influence operation campaigns linked to China, Russia, Iran, and Tunisia by terminating thousands of YouTube channels and several AdSense, Play Developer, and advertising accounts. According to the Threat Analysis Group (TAG) Q2 2020 bulletin, a Google team of security experts that
Hackers Abuse Lookalike Domains And Favicons For Credit Card Theft Hackers are abusing a new technique: combining homoglyph domains with favicons to conduct credit card skimming attacks. Sophisticated skimming attacks like Magecart have incorporated favicons before and impacted well-known companies like Claire’s, Tupperware, Smith & Wesson, Macy’s, and British Airways. Being mere images, favicons give off the impression they are innocuous. But attackers find ways to abuse the