WebSniffer now accepts donations 🌱 Uber got hacked 🔓
WebSniffer now accepts donations 🌱 Uber got hacked 🔓
Read the latest news about the WebSniffer project, Web, computer networks, cybersecurity and more…
Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter about the WebSniffer project, Web, computer networks and cybersecurity 👋
This newsletter issue contains the following two sections:
🌐 WebSniffer Update
📰 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.
✨ WebSniffer accepts donations
If you ever wanted to support the development of the WebSniffer project - here is a great opportunity. Starting from now, we support donations. You can either use Ko-Fi or “Buy me a coffee“ to, well… buy us a virtual coffee 😊
📰 News
Here are some interesting news from the Web, computer networks and cybersecurity fields that are worth sharing 👇
🗞️ Uber Says It Was Likely Hacked by Teenage Hacker Gang LAPSUS$
The company also cleared up how the hacker was able to get around multi-factor authentication.
🗞️ LunaNet – Developing the Internet for the Moon
The NASA-sponsored Artemis program is the first step in the next era of human exploration. Together with a large number of international government and academic partners as well as businesses -- and based on international standards -- NASA will establish a sustainable presence on the Moon.
In 2020, the ICANN Generic Name Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council approved a plan to revamp the WHOIS system as per the recommendations given by the ICANN Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP). This plan directed ICANN to develop a centralized System for Standardized Access/Disclosure (SSAD) for WHOIS records. After much debate regarding the suitability and cost of such a system, ICANN brought together a group...
🗞️ SpaceX Introduces Affordability-Based Starlink Pricing
When SpaceX announced the price of the Starlink service, Elon Musk said it would be the same everywhere but I wrote that eventually it would be priced to be affordable in different nations. (If you predict enough things, you are bound to get something right). The fixed cost of a satellite Internet constellation is high -- satellites are expensive to make and launch -- but the cost of adding and servicing a new customer is low, and the market is global.
🗞️ Registration Patterns of Deceptive Domains
A key requirement for a bad actor wanting to launch a brand attack is the registration of a carefully chosen domain name. The most convincing infringements frequently use a domain name that's deceptively similar to that of the official site of the target brand. This allows a variety of attacks to be executed, including phishing attacks...
🗞️ Data, DNS Abuse and What to Do Next
To the annoyance of some, surely, the issue of abuse in the domain name system (DNS) has been high on the list of critical issues in internet governance circles. Personally, in my more than 20 years of internet governance experience, tackling DNS abuse is one of the more important issues I've participated in and seen debated. Despite this intense scrutiny, common-sense solutions (such as contract improvements) have been so far elusive, even as they fall squarely within its ICANN's remit.
🗞️ Testing of Starlink internet under way in Antarctica
Starlink began testing its satellite internet access at McMurdo Station in Antarctica this week to the benefit of the area's researchers.
🗞️ Elon Musk claims SpaceX was in talks with Apple on iPhone 14 satellite services
Following the debut of the iPhone 14 this week, Elon Musk has claimed that Apple had been locked in talks with SpaceX about the new handset's satellite capabilities.
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