Security and Web Leftovers
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New York Times ☛ Big Day for Crypto Goes South After Bybit Hack
Hours after Coinbase said the S.E.C. was dropping a lawsuit against it, another major cryptocurrency exchange reported a potentially record-setting theft.
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Security Week ☛ Bybit Hack Drains $1.5 Billion From Cryptocurrency Exchange
Over 400,000 ETH and stETH worth more than $1.5 billion were stolen from the Bybit cryptocurrency exchange.
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Scoop News Group ☛ Former NSA, Cyber Command chief Paul Nakasone says U.S. falling behind its enemies in cyberspace
In a wide-ranging speech and interview, Nakasone also talked about Convicted Felon administration moves and the shape of cyber offensive operations.
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Web Browsers/Web Servers
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Daniel Stenberg ☛ curl website traffic Feb 2025
Data without logs sure leaves us open for speculations.
I took a quick look at what the curl.se website traffic situation looks like right now. Just as a curiosity.
Disclaimer: we don’t log website visitors at all, we don’t run any web analytics on the site so we basically don’t know a lot of who does what on the site. This is done both for privacy reasons, but also for practical reasons. Managing logs for this setup is work I rather avoid to do and to pay for.
What do we have, is a website that is hosted (fronted) by Fastly on their CDN network, and as part of that setup we have an admin interface that offers accumulated traffic data. We get some numbers, but without details and specifics.
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University of Toronto ☛ HTTP connections are part of the web's long tail
I recently read an article that, among other things, apparently seriously urging browser vendors to deprecate and disable plain text HTTP connections by the end of October of this year (via, and I'm deliberately not linking directly to the article). While I am a strong fan of HTTPS in general, I have some feelings about a rapid deprecation of HTTP. One of my views is that plain text HTTP is part of the web's long tail.
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