“Amazon has revealed that its AWS Shield service was able to mitigate the largest DDoS attack ever recorded at 2.3 Tbps back in February of this year.”
New Apple Security Blow: If You Have An iPhone, Look Away Now
“Apple had been hoping to move past its recent run of security warnings—but no such luck. After a dreadful April, here we are in May with yet another security blow for the hundreds of millions of iOS users around the world.”
How to delete your LastPass account and permanently wipe saved logins
“LastPass is a free online service that manages your multitude of passwords through encryption. It’s a useful service if you have multiple accounts and find it difficult to remember or securely store your various account logins.”
Uncle Sam to agencies: No encrypted DNS for you!
“The US federal government has been protecting its users by blocking malicious destinations for years, but it won’t let them take advantage of the latest protective measure in DNS – encryption – just yet.”
Should you switch to the Brave Web Browser?
““You fought in the Browsers Wars?” asked Microsoft Edge. “Yes. I was once a Web Browser, the same as your father, ” said Internet Explorer 6. OK, that doesn’t quite have the same dynamic as Luke’s and Obi Wan’s conversation in a New Hope.”
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Set Up OpenVPN Server In 5 Minutes
“I am a new Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS server system administrator. How can I set up an OpenVPN Server on an Ubuntu Linux version 20.”
Microsoft tells Chrome users to switch to its Edge browser on Outlook
“For years, Google has placed prominent pop-up ads on its web properties suggesting people switch to Google’s Chrome browser, saying they’ll get better performance, features and security.”
Beware calls from unknown numbers – this top messaging app has placed millions of iOS and Android users at risk
“Researchers have identified a critical vulnerability in popular privacy-centric messaging app Signal, affecting millions of iOS and Android users.”
Showdown looms between Silicon Valley, U.S. states over contact tracing apps
“SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – U.S. states promoting apps that could prove essential to ending the coronavirus lockdown may be headed for a showdown with the two Silicon Valley companies that control key software on 99% of smartphones over the collection of sensitive GPS location data.”
NordVPN becomes the first VPN to integrate WireGuard on all platforms
“NordVPN is now rolling out the WireGuard VPN tunneling protocol on all platforms. WireGuard offers significant speed benefits to existing VPN standards like OpenVPN.”
