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Google today announced a change to its online ads, which will now display new disclosures that allow web searchers to see not just who the advertiser is and why the ad was served to you, but also what other ads the advertiser has run with Google, starting with the most recent. The changes are a part of Google’s broader revamp of its ads business in the face of increased regulatory scrutiny and a broader shift across the tech industry to technologies that promote transparency and… Source link

The Russian internet giant Yandex experienced an extreme Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack for several days, in August and September. The attack recorded at about 22 million requests per second (RPS) is believed to be the largest DDoS attack in the history of the internet, according to the Russian publication Vedomosti. Cyber security company Cloudflare confirmed the attack adding that the worst volumetric DDoS attack it ever recorded was 17.2… Source link

It was a routine bike ride around the neighborhood that landed Zachary McCoy in the crosshairs of the Gainesville, Florida, police department. In January 2020, an alarming email from Google landed in McCoy’s inbox. Police were requesting his user data, the company told him, and McCoy had seven days to go to court and block its release. McCoy later found out the request was part of an investigation into the burglary of a nearby home the year before. The evidence that cast him as a suspect was… Source link

By Julio-Cesar Chavez and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – The latest in a recent line of space-obsessed billionaires was set for liftoff on Wednesday with three less wealthy private citizens along for the ride aboard a SpaceX rocket ship, seeking to become the first all-civilian crew launched into Earth orbit. The quartet of amateur space travelers, led by the American founder and chief executive of e-commerce firm Shift4 Payments Inc, Jared Isaacman, were due for blastoff as… Source link

Russian software giant Yandex confirmed at the end of last week that it succeeded in repelling a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that took place last month and at the beginning of this month, claiming that it was the biggest attack of its kind in history. One of the products marketed by the company is a service for protection against such attacks.  According to an official statement by the company, the attack – in which the malicious actors tried to flood the computer system… Source link

As the full implications of Texas’s SB 8 abortion law come into view, internet infrastructure companies have become an unlikely focal point. Multiple hosting and domain registration providers have declined to offer services to an abortion ‘whistleblower’ site for violating terms of service related to collecting data about third parties. The site, which aims to collect tips on people who have received, performed or facilitated abortions in Texas, has been down for more than a week.

As the full implications of Texas’s SB 8 abortion law come into view, internet infrastructure companies have become an unlikely focal point. Multiple hosting and domain registration providers have declined to offer services to an abortion ‘whistleblower’ site for violating terms of service related to collecting data about third parties. The site, which aims to collect tips on people who have received, performed or facilitated abortions in Texas, has been down for more than a week.

The Russian tech giant Yandex announced this week that in August and September it was the victim of the internet’s largest-ever recorded distributed denial-of-service or DDoS attack, according to Reuters. This is an attack in which hackers try to flood a network with unusually high volumes of data traffic in order to paralyze it. The attack began in August and reached a record level on September 5. However, Yandex successfully defended against even that largest barrage.  “Our experts did… Source link

The Russian Internet giant Yandex says it repelled the largest DDoS (denial-of-service) attack in history. The cyberattack included more than 20 million requests per second (RPS), according to the company’s blog on the website Habr.  The source of the attack was a new botnet, which Yandex named “Meris.” Yandex observed signs of the appearance of the new botnet back in late June. The company estimates that “Meris” consists of between at least 56,000 infected devices, but says the… Source link

Russian internet giant Yandex is reportedly grappling with the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the Russian-language community on the internet and websites collectively known as Runet.  The news comes courtesy of Russian-language publication Vedomosti who claim the scale of the attack was confirmed by Cloudflare.  According to BleepingComputer, Runet was conceptualized to function independently of the world wide web, and maintain unified country-wide communication… Source link