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Single Fastly Customer Sparked Global Internet Meltdown Yesterday’s wide-scale internet outage was triggered when a single Fastly customer changed their settings, it has emerged. The problem took place on Tuesday June 8, when Fastly, a cloud computing services company, experienced a bug on its content delivery network (CDN). This led to several major websites, including Amazon, Reddit, The Guardian and New York Times being forced offline for 30-40 minutes from around 11am. Additionally, specific sections of other services were affected by the failure. The problem was resolved relatively qu...

Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House on February 17, 2021 in Washington, D.C. A White House executive order is spurring discussions on the merits and drawbacks of mandating third party code testing. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) The cybersecurity executive order issued by President Joe Biden in May covered a lot of ground, moving the needle on issues like breach reporting, zero trust architecture, and software insecurity. One part of the order requires the director of the National Ins...

Human brains rely on shortcuts to be efficient. But these shortcuts leave us vulnerable to false information.

Porcorex / Bluebay2014 / Getty Images Pop quiz: What has been the most popular — and therefore least secure — password every year since 2013? If you answered “password,” you’d be close. “Qwerty” is another contender for the dubious distinction, but the champion is the most basic, obvious password imaginable: “123456.” Yes, tons of people still use “123456” as a password, according to NordPass's 200 most common passwords of the year for 2020, which is based on analysis of passwords exposed by data breaches. The six-digit sequence has also ranked high on ot...

The number of components in the average application rose 77% over two years. No wonder, then, that 84% of codebases have at least one vulnerability.