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Twitter redesigns it’s homepage

Twitter for the Masses

For non-tweeters, the social network can feel clubby and confusing. Can its new home page change that?

Twitter.com is a barren wasteland.

I should qualify that statement. For the roughly 20 percent of American adultswho maintain active Twitter accounts, the site is an overflowing river of wry observations, edifying links, and up-to-the-second dispatches from around the…

BitTorrent Browser for Windows

We knew that BitTorrent was working on its own browser, and now it’s here in beta form for Windows. Based on Chromium, Project Maelstrom is designed to decentralize the web in the same way that torrents do, relying on a people-powered network of sites and files rather than large server hubs.

“With Project Maelstrom, we aim to deliver technology that can sustain an open Internet; one that doesn’t…

The Pirate Bay is down, and CloudFlare’s cache fails

After only a few months of reliable service, The Pirate Bay is down again. The cause of the outage is unknown (we somehow doubt Game of Thrones pirates have overloaded the servers) but the outage has been ongoing for a few hours, so it’s not a minor blip.

All we know is that The Pirate Bay’s host is to blame. This could be a software or hardware issue, but it could also mean that the host has…

Scan your Windows computer for untrusted root certificates

Root certificates are one core building block of today’s Internet. They are used to verify connections and a list of trusted certificates ships with operating systems such as Windows which makes them more trustworthy than certificates added to the operating system by third-parties.

For end users, it is nearly impossible to tell which certificates are legitimate and which are not. While it is…

Hackers hit Israeli websites after Anonymous threats

Pro-Palestinian hackers disrupted Israeli websites on Tuesday, following threats from the Anonymous hacking collective that it would carry out an “electronic Holocaust,” though Israeli cyber experts said the coordinated attacks caused little damage.

The hacking campaign, which has taken place every April 7 since 2013, is meant to be in protest of Israeli policies toward the Palestinians. In…

PCI DSS 3.1 Forces Move From SSL to TLS

E-commerce firms will be forced to migrate their web servers from SSL to TLS support later this month or face non-compliance with the latest version of industry standard PCI DSS.

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (SSC), which manages the standards, will release version 3.1 in response to damaging vulnerabilities such as Heartbleed, Shellshock and POODLE, which take advantage of…