Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft and Amazon report heaviest DDoS attacks ever
Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft and Amazon all suffered DDoS Layer 7 attacks in the past month. The attacks were enormously powerful due to a zero-day vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol.
Hackers managed to exploit a vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol to start DDoS attacks. Cloudflare, Google,... Read more
Microsoft announces .NET 7 networking improvements
The latest release of .NET 7 brings interesting features and additions to the networking space.
A month after releasing the first version of .NET 7, Microsoft introduced a range of networking upgrades that cover the HTTP transport layer, APIs and security.
The updates reflect Microsoft's be... Read more
Chrome upgrades HTTP to HTTPS, if available
Google’s engineers are revered in the browser industry. They have been some of the most ardent proponents of browser security features. Over the past few years, they have been working with teams behind browsers like Tor and Firefox, to bring about many of the changes we see in browsers today.
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Firefox 83 comes with an ‘HTTPS-Only-Mode’ loading only HTTPS sites
Firefox 83 is scheduled to be released on Wednesday and will come with a new security feature designed to load all websites using HTTPS. The feature is called "HTTPS-Only-Mode." If the loading does not go through, an error message on the sites that only support the older and less secure HTTP protoc... Read more