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Oracle Cloud went down in global outage 2 min read

Oracle Cloud went down in global outage

Ax Sharma March 11, 2021

A few hours ago reports of Oracle Cloud services going down surfaced on the internet. The outage that appears to have lasted about two hours,... Read More

DoS flaw lets attackers crash NodeJS apps via DNS lookups 1 min read

DoS flaw lets attackers crash NodeJS apps via DNS lookups

Ax Sharma November 20, 2020

NodeJS has released fixes for CVE-2020-8277, a DoS vulnerability that could be triggered via DNS requests.... Read More

21,000 U.S. driver licenses up for sale on hacker forum after data breach 4 min read

21,000 U.S. driver licenses up for sale on hacker forum after data breach

Ax Sharma July 14, 2021

Audacity’s new “Privacy Notice” has left many concerned 2 min read

Audacity’s new “Privacy Notice” has left many concerned

Ax Sharma July 5, 2021

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Insurer Dominion National settles for $2 million in data breach lawsuit 3 min read

Insurer Dominion National settles for $2 million in data breach lawsuit

Ax Sharma July 3, 2021

Twitter slaps many with DMCA takedown notices for years old violations 2 min read

Twitter slaps many with DMCA takedown notices for years old violations

Ax Sharma June 17, 2021