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Google has taken a significant step towards enhancing Chrome internet security by automatically upgrading insecure HTTP requests to HTTPS requests for 100% of users. This feature is called ...

Yes, sometimes you need sophisticated libraries that handle HTTP requests asynchronously, but in other situations that can be overkill. An old Internet Explorer API may have a solution. I've written ...

BLACK HAT USA – LAS VEGAS – A security researcher who previously demonstrated how attackers can abuse weaknesses in the way websites handle HTTP requests warned that the same issues can be used in ...

Question: What is HTTP request smuggling, what are the risks, and how does server configuration impact the severity? Asaf Karas, CTO, JFrog Security: HTTP request smuggling is a type of vulnerability ...

In August and September, threat actors unleashed the biggest distributed denial-of-service attacks in Internet history by exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in a key technical protocol.

The leaked bytes are the useful part. Squid reuses freed memory buffers without zeroing them, so a 4KB buffer that recently ...

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack earlier this year takes the top spot for the largest such incident, peaking at 17.2 million requests per second (rps). The attack was recorded by ...

Back in 2018, Google notified developers that it will end support for HTTP and JSON-RPC requests for its APIs. Today, Google announced on the Google Webmaster Twitter handle that this will be ...