Pi-hole is one of my favorite services that solves an everyday problem without requiring expensive hardware. Install it on a Raspberry Pi, configure your devices to use it for DNS, and you can block unwanted domains while monitoring DNS activity across your network.

Japan's GMO Internet is verifying alleged customer data posted by suspected hackers following a cloud service breach.

Ukraine says Starlink service has been restored after days of disruption. The incident highlights why enterprises need tested, independent backup systems.

The post Starlink Restrictions Explained: What Enterprises Can Learn appeared first on TechRepublic.

Ukraine says Starlink service has been restored after days of disruption. The incident highlights why enterprises need tested, independent backup systems.

The post Starlink Restrictions Explained: What Enterprises Can Learn appeared first on TechRepublic.

I'm an ardent supporter of archiving things. The Internet Archive and Wayback Machine are two of my most frequented places online. As I was researching something earlier this year, I stumbled upon something I (surprisingly) hadn't heard of before: the WARC format. These things are one of the most fascinating files/formats I've come across since Ogg Vorbis. And I wanted to learn more about what they are and how to use them.

Buying a new router feels like a sure-fire way to fix a bad internet connection (even though a router that's new to you may not be new at all). But if your internet was alright before and you bought a new router and it's all gone downhill, you're not imagining it. It's completely possible for a new router to mess up your connection despite all that money you just spent on trying to improve it.

Most subscription apps are genuinely useful, but after a while the monthly fees add up to a number that's hard to ignore when you realize half of what you're paying for is syncing your own data back to you. Each app solves a real problem, and you have to keep paying for it every month. But you can get a lot of the same features in Obsidian for free.

The Browser Company is shutting down its Arc browser on December 22 and encouraging users to migrate to Dia, its newer AI-powered browser for Apple Silicon Macs and Windows 11 PCs. Thurrott reports: In the message explaining why it was sunsetting Arc, The Browser Company explained that maintaining two separate browsers was difficult to justify, especially from a security perspective. "Dia was built from the ground up to meet today's security standards, so that's where our engineering and security teams will focus moving forward," the company wrote. The retirement of Arc will be gradual: While nothing changes for existing Arc users, it's no longer possible to create new Arc accounts as of today. On November 23, tab sync, Browse for Me, and other AI features will be disabled on the iOS and Android versions of Arc. Lastly, the desktop version of Arc will stop working on December 22, and Arc accounts will be deactivated.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

BBC technology editor Zoe Kleinman likens the recently discovered PHP security vulnerabilities to an unexploded bomb, writing, "The PHP story feels like the cyber equivalent of an unexploded bomb -- I have never seen such a dramatic, public and global response to a cyber event that hasn't happened yet." Although no successful attacks have been confirmed, the AI-assisted discovery of long-hidden flaws has triggered a worldwide security scramble, with websites taken offline as a precaution and administrators racing to deploy patches before attackers can exploit the vulnerabilities. From the report: The weaknesses found in the PHP programming language, which is used by millions of websites, had been quietly resting there for years and are not easy to exploit. One cyber security researcher told me he'd been up all night trying to do it as an experiment, but it was proving very difficult. [...] It was supposed to be kept quiet until everyone had a chance to fix their sites -- but the news was leaked. From that point the clock started ticking. As I write this, there are no reports that anyone or anything has succeeded in using the flaws to attack a site. "There's a real dilemma," said Prof Alan Woodward from Surrey University. "How do you alert people they need to be ready, and then that a patch is urgently required, whilst not alerting attackers? Basically you're telling everyone about the problem at the same time and hoping the defenders aren't awake enough to act as soon as the patch is out." But we do know from large web companies like Cloudflare and Palo Alto Networks that millions of attempts have been made. We probably won't know for a while whether it has worked for any criminals, because the companies affected might not be aware yet either. As far as we know the unexploded bomb remains intact for now, and for some experts this is a success. "We've seen how a team of people supported by the large AI company have used AI to find the problem, work for months together to solve it and get everybody ready to be safe and secure," Gina Neff, Professor of Responsible AI at Queen Mary University, told the Today Program on BBC Radio 4. "We have enormous capability to handle these risks."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Have you ever glanced at your Android phone’s status bar and spotted a little landline phone icon you didn’t recognize? It is easy to dismiss an unfamiliar symbol or assume something has changed with your phone, but these tiny indicators can actually tell you quite a bit about what your device is doing.

UniFi hardware earns loyalty from people who want control over their networks. Yet your gateway, switches, and access points may be talking to Ubiquiti’s servers more often than you’d expect. Here’s what gets sent, why, and how to rein it in.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Website admins, brace yourselves. Fixes for what are believed to be uncommonly severe vulnerabilities are scheduled to drop in a little more than 12 hours for PHP, a programming language that powers websites and Web applications everywhere. PHP maintainers said Monday that they planned to release patches for two vulnerabilities, both with severity ratings of 9.2 out of a possible 10. "All PHP users are encouraged to prepare now so they can upgrade as soon as the release is available," the advisory stated. "We reserve the right to release earlier should details of either vulnerability become public, or should evidence of active exploitation appear in the wild." The maintainers published the advisory following the leaking of purported details, which have yet to be confirmed. The report showed a video of an exploit tool dubbed PHP2Shell executing code on webservers running WordPress 7.1.3, MediaWiki 1.46.2, phpBB 3.3.17, Magento 2.4.9, Joomla 6.2.0, Laravel 13.36.0, Laravel 8.83.29, Symphony 8.1.9, Drupal 11.4.10, and WHMCS 9.0.9, all of which use PHP. A video depicting the tool has been reposted here. Attempts to locate the unconfirmed report were unsuccessful, but security firm watchTowr said it claimed to affect every PHP version from PHP 5, released in 2004, onward. The security firm went on to say it has confirmed that the vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, are real. Researchers from separate security firm Sansec said they "expect mass attacks to start within 15 minutes of the release." A third security firm, Webfence, also urged admins to prepare now. Huntress has also issued an advisory.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

How to change IP address on iPhone for free: 7 ways, from a VPN to a router restart, plus how to find your iPhone’s local and public IP address.

The post How To Change IP Address On iPhone: 7 Free Ways first appeared on Redmond Pie.

Discover how multi-cloud environments create security blind spots, inconsistent access controls, risks and how CCSP strategies help strengthen cloud security.

Nearly 100 years after the dirigible Graf Zeppelin made the first nonstop airship journey across the Pacific Ocean, another airship has successfully completed a round-trip flight from New Mexico to Japan and back. But the significance of this modern feat was less about the journey's length and more about its purpose: demonstrating how a lighter-than-air platform can act as a cell phone tower in the sky.

The trans-Pacific flight that took place over a month between August and September 2026 was the most notable milestone yet for Sceye, a US aerospace company based near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sceye has developed an uncrewed platform filled with helium for buoyancy and equipped with an electric-powered propeller for active propulsion, allowing it to resist most strong winds and keep hovering over the same location for long periods. The platform also uses top-mounted solar panels and onboard batteries to stay powered for stratospheric operations around the clock.

“We can stay over an area of operation, and we do that in the stratosphere right around 60,000 feet, so we're twice as high as air traffic and we're above the jet stream, and yet 30 times closer than low-Earth orbit satellites,” Mikkel Frandsen, founder and CEO of Sceye, told Ars. “We can fly through day and night until the sun comes up the next morning and recharges the batteries, at which point we're still at the same altitude and still over the same area of operation.”

Read full article

Comments

© Sceye

Your IP address can reveal your location, ISP, connection type, and VPN use to websites, ad networks, and trackers before a page even loads.

Information was linked to the internet. Blockchain has the potential to link trust, identification, and ownership.

The original purpose of the internet was to transfer information. It became incredibly skilled at it. A video may reach millions of people overnight, a message can travel the world in a matter of seconds, and companies can conduct business internationally without ever setting up a physical presence. However, one issue is still strangely unsolved despite all that the internet has accomplished: we still mainly rely on middlemen to determine who owns what, who has access to what, and which digital records are reliable. A new potential is presented by blockchain: an internet in which ownership and wealth can flow as effortlessly as information.

The majority of our digital lives now rely on centralized systems. Our identities are part of accounts under corporate control. Our postings, purchases, subscriptions, gaming items, digital connections, and photos are frequently stored in databases that are not within our control. Users may find that the digital assets they thought they controlled were actually permissions given by someone else if a platform vanishes, modifies its policies, suspends an account, or closes a service.

That architecture can be altered by blockchain.

Blockchain enables networks to maintain shared records that can be independently verified, eliminating the need for one organization to keep the final record of ownership. Therefore, a digital asset can exist outside of a particular company’s database. A wallet has the ability to serve as a portable digital account with assets, credentials, memberships, permissions, and identification information that can communicate with a variety of services, in addition to being a location for bitcoin.

The relationship between users and online platforms may progressively shift as a result. Imagine being able to establish ownership of a digital object you purchase in a game without the help of the game publisher. Imagine being able to move between employment platforms with validated professional credentials without constantly requesting confirmation from organizations. Imagine that while programmable contracts automatically allocate revenue to collaborators, creators sell digital content directly to audiences. According to this concept, interacting with an open network of digital property and verifiable relationships takes precedence over accessing isolated platforms on the internet.

Blockchain has the potential to change payments as well. Information is currently transported worldwide via the internet, but money frequently passes through an entirely distinct infrastructure that includes banks, processors, settlement networks, geographical limitations, and business hours. Internet-native money — value that may flow over digital networks continuously and, in certain situations, programmatically — is made possible by blockchain networks. Eventually, little sums of value could be automatically exchanged by websites, apps, machines, and even AI agents without the need for the payment systems that were initially created for traditional commerce.

However, blockchain won’t take the place of the internet. It makes more sense to think of it as an additional layer. Computers were able to communicate thanks to TCP/IP. The web facilitated the publication and navigation of information. A native method for establishing digital ownership, transferring value, and verifying shared information without requiring every interaction to go via the same central authority is something that the original internet never completely had. This is something that blockchain might add.

Thus, the most significant change could be nearly undetectable. In the same way that billions of people utilize internet protocols now without understanding how they operate, people may soon use blockchain-based infrastructure without even considering blockchains.

PCs that were first connected to the internet.
Information and people were linked in the second.

Identity, ownership, value, and trust might all be connected in the next iteration.

---

Blockchain Could Create the Trust Layer That the Internet Is Missing was originally published in Coinmonks on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Disclosure: This article was created in collaboration with Status Labs.