Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter about the WebSniffer project, Web, computer networks and cybersecurity 👋

This newsletter issue contains the following three sections:

🌐 WebSniffer Update
📅 Events
📰 News

🌐 WebSniffer Update

In this section you will learn about the latest product updates of the WebSniffer project.

WebSniffer is an intelligence platform in the making that is going to track changes on the web and provide actionable insights to its users. The online tool can currently view HTTP response headers of any web page, do domain name, IP address lookups and provides user’s browser information such as IP address, user agent and more.

✨ Accepting Brave Rewards

From now on WebSniffer accepts Brave Rewards. Brave Rewards are credit points that are available to all users of the open-source and privacy-centric Brave web browser. Users now can donate Brave Regards to the WebSniffer project. Simply navigate to websniffer.com, click the triangular icon in the address bar of the Brave browser and then click the “Send Tip“ button.

✨ 500+ followers on LinkedIn

Just a few days ago our following on LinkedIn has achieved 500 people and counting… Feel free to follow our daily news and updates on one of your favourite platforms: LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook.

📅 Events

Global Encryption Day 2022

Date: Friday, 21 October 2022

Location: Online

https://www.internetsociety.org/events/global-encryption-day/2022/

ICANN Training Series: DNSSEC 101

Date: Thursday, 27 October 2022

Location: Online

https://features.icann.org/event/icann-organization/icann-training-series-central-europe-baltics-dnssec-101

NetThing 2022

Date: Friday, 28 October 2022

Location: Online

https://features.icann.org/event/internet-ecosystem/netthing-2022

📰 News

Here are some interesting news from the Web, computer networks and cybersecurity fields that are worth sharing 👇

🗞️ How BuiltWith generates $14 million a year while having zero employees

Read an inspiring story how Gary Brewer has created and highly automated his successful startup BuiltWith. All with a very few employees and a yearly recurring revenue of $14M.

🗞️ .Net vs .Com: What’s The Difference?

Forbes contributor Jeff White compares both most popular domain extensions (TLDs) and explains when it's appropriate to use one or another.

🗞️ All Windows versions can now block admin brute-force attacks

Microsoft announced that IT admins can now configure any Windows system still receiving security updates to automatically block brute force attacks targeting the built-in Administrator account via a group policy.

🗞️ Cloudflare attempts to recreate Alexa Rank with Radar Domain Rankings

Leveraging its immense global traffic data, Cloudflare announced a replacement to Alexa Rank called Radar Domain Rankings.

🗞️ How to change your DNS settings and why you should

A handful of internet problems can be fixed or improved by changing your DNS server in Windows or your router, including speed and reliability.

🗞️ The best free and public DNS servers in 2022

The best free DNS servers can greatly improve your browsing speeds and protect your device from malicious content. Here are some top ones.

🗞️ Price Increases for .COM and .NET: The Generated Impact on the Performance of the Two TLDs

Loïc Damilaville asks in his article if the recent price increase by VERISIGN of .COM and .NET domains could be the reason of the first time in the history decrease of those domain registrations.

🗞️ Developing Models for the Prediction of Domain Name Renewal Rates

Rickard Vikström of DomainCrawler in his article finds out that by analyzing domain name data and usage, it’s possible to predict fairly accurately domain name renewal rates.

🗞️ Industrial cybersecurity market to be US$43.5 billion by 2032

The industrial cybersecurity market is anticipated to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 7.7%, from US$20.7 billion in 2022 to US$43.5 billion in 2032, according to a new report by Future Market Insights.

🗞️ Hijacked IP Addresses

Peter Tobey of IPv4.Global in his article explains how malicious actors hijack IP addresses, which were properly registered to someone else.

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Web, Computer Networks & Cybersecurity News

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