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Apache vulnerability exposes Canadian government websites to hackers

15

Mar

2017

An easily exploitable zero-day vulnerability in Apache Struts 2 forced the Canadian government to take offline the websites associated with Canada Revenue Agency, used for filing tax returns, and Statistics Canada, just before the end of the fiscal year, according to Reuters. The online security breach was actually experienced by Statistics Canada, but the Canada […]

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Amazon shows why you shouldn’t put all your tech eggs in one cloud basket

07

Mar

2017

When Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service at Amazon’s US-EAST-1 data centers went down, things went bad. Very, very bad. How bad? Popular sites such as Quora, Business Insider, Netflix, Reddit and Slack either crashed entirely or were broken. By SimilarTech’s count, over 124,000 sites were affected. A college student told me, “It’s knocked out my […]

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Verizon knocks off $350M from Yahoo deal after breaches

22

Feb

2017

Verizon will pay about $4.48 billion for Yahoo’s operating business, and the two companies will share any potential legal and regulatory liabilities arising from two major data breaches announced in late 2016. The companies announced the amended terms of the deal Tuesday.

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