Day: December 17, 2019

IoT gear is generating easy-to-crack keys because they repeat the key once every 172 times

Posted on by Robin Edgar

A preponderance of weak keys is leaving IoT devices at risk of being hacked, and the problem won’t be an easy one to solve. This was the conclusion reached by the team at security house Keyfactor, which analyzed a collection of 75 million RSA certificates gathered from the open internet and determined that number combinations Read more about IoT gear is generating easy-to-crack keys because they repeat the key once every 172 times[…]

Controversial sale of money grabbing .org domain faces review at ICANN

Posted on by Robin Edgar

ICANN is reviewing the pending sale of the .org domain manager from a nonprofit to a private equity firm and says it could try to block the transfer. The .org domain is managed by the Public Internet Registry (PIR), which is a subsidiary of the Internet Society, a nonprofit. The Internet Society is trying to Read more about Controversial sale of money grabbing .org domain faces review at ICANN[…]

Amazon Blocks Sellers From Using FedEx Ground For Prime Shipments – way to have fun using a monopoly!

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Amazon.com is blocking its third-party sellers from using FedEx’s ground delivery network for Prime shipments, citing a decline in performance heading into the final stretch of the holiday shopping season. The ban on using FedEx’s Ground and Home services starts this week and will last “until the delivery performance of these ship methods improves,” according Read more about Amazon Blocks Sellers From Using FedEx Ground For Prime Shipments – way to have fun using a monopoly![…]