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CloudFlare security service goes down after router failure

An interesting article from Cnet.com in there security & privacy section:  Web security service CloudFlare was offline for about an hour this morning due to a systemwide failure of its edge routers. The outage, which began around 1:47 a.m. PT, removed the security layer for 785,000 Web sites, including 4chan and Wikileaks, according to TechCrunch. […]

Google patches bug that allows attackers to slip past two-factor authentication

An article on Naked Security about authentication:  Google’s two-step verification, according to the company’s ad campaign, isn’t merely a bear guarding your home. It’s a snake pit behind the bear guarding your home. Unfortunately, it turns out, application-specific passwords allow attackers to bounce right past the bear and to hop over the vipers. To read […]

CloudFlare security service goes down after router failure

An interesting article from Cnet.com in there security & privacy section:  Web security service CloudFlare was offline for about an hour this morning due to a systemwide failure of its edge routers. The outage, which began around 1:47 a.m. PT, removed the security layer for 785,000 Web sites, including 4chan and Wikileaks, according to TechCrunch. […]

Google patches bug that allows attackers to slip past two-factor authentication

An article on Naked Security about authentication:  Google’s two-step verification, according to the company’s ad campaign, isn’t merely a bear guarding your home. It’s a snake pit behind the bear guarding your home. Unfortunately, it turns out, application-specific passwords allow attackers to bounce right past the bear and to hop over the vipers. To read […]