• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Dec-04-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Microsoft, law enforcement disrupt Dorkbot botnet

Microsoft said Thursday it aided law enforcement agencies in several regions to disrupt a four-year-old botnet called Dorkbot, which has infected one million computers worldwide.The Dorkbot malware aims to steal login credentials from services such ... Read More

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Dec-03-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Free digital certificate project opens doors for public beta

Let’s Encrypt, the project offering free digital certificates for websites, is now issuing them more broadly with the launch of a public beta on Thursday.The beta label will eventually be dropped as the software they’ve developed is refined, wrote Josh Aas, […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Dec-03-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Free digital certificate project opens doors for public beta

Let’s Encrypt, the project offering free digital certificates for websites, is now issuing them more broadly with the launch of a public beta on Thursday.The beta label will eventually be dropped as the software they’ve developed is refined, wrote Josh Aas, […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Dec-03-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on No more security fixes for older OpenSSL branches

The OpenSSL Software Foundation has released new patches for the popular open-source cryptographic library, but for two of its older branches they will likely be the last security updates.This could spell trouble for some enterprise applications tha... Read More