Last month, you might have heard on the news or read on the Web that China hijacked part of the Internet for 18 minutes or so - possibly by accident, possibly not - and stole a bunch of Internet data.

A recent report from Palo Alto Networks’s Unit 42 exposes the persistent and evolving threat of DNS hijacking, a stealthy tactic cybercriminals use to reroute internet traffic. By leveraging passive ...

Q: How can I tell if my web browser has been hijacked? A: A browser hijack sounds dramatic, but it’s one of the most common and easiest to miss signs of unwanted software. Instead of breaking your ...

The URL Tracer with Typo-Patrol also tracks when a Web site instructs a person's browser to visit other third-party domains without his knowledge. The scheme is often used in downloading malware to a ...

Security experts disagree on whether China Telecom's hijack of major Internet domains was an attack, but the incident has heightened awareness of the potential cyber threat On April 8, China Telecom ...

A new analysis shows that roughly 35,000 solar power systems from 42 vendors have exposed management interfaces, including devices such as inverters, data loggers, monitors, gateways, and more. Of the ...

The Federal Communications Commission wants to verify that Internet service providers are strengthening their networks against attacks that take advantage of vulnerabilities in Border Gateway Protocol ...

Internet traffic hijacking disrupted several Google services Monday, including search and cloud-hosting services. Network-monitoring companies say service interruptions lasted for nearly two hours and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of a nonprofit that manages the infrastructure of the Internet defended on Wednesday the U.S. government's move to cede oversight of the body, and downplayed concerns ...

(MENAFN- EIN Presswire) EINPresswire/ -- Whisper Security Reveals 95% of Global Internet Vulnerable to DNS Hijacking; Calls End to "Voluntary Security" Era New "God Mode" intelligence report confirms ...

Software titan Microsoft and computer security giant Symantec said Thursday that they smashed a hacker-infected computer network that was hijacking Internet searches. Think about all of the different ...

The Internet is fragile. Many of its protocols were designed at a time when the goal was rapid network expansion based on trust among operators. Today, the Internet’s open nature is what makes it so ...