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Dreamhost Among Popular Web Hosting Services Named In Vulnerability Report

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Los Angeles-based cloud hosting service DreamHost is one of the popular web hosting companies, caught up in the latest report of a widespread cybersecurity hole, which researcher say allowed hackers to easily access and take over accounts. READ MORE>>.

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Entrepreneurs Are Needed To Make Web Searches Smarter

Startup Professionals Musings

This has been a long-time dream of Tim Berners-Lee , the man who (really) invented the World Wide Web. He calls his dream the ‘ Semantic Web ’ (or Web 3.0), meaning it understands user context. He and many other experts believe that the Semantic Web will act more like a personal assistant than a search engine.

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Ring Passwords Available On Dark Web

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In what appears to be the season for stories on how easy it is to gain unauthorized access to cameras from Santa Monica-based Ring , a report published Thursday from Techcrunch says over 1,500 passwords for Ring cameras are available on the "dark web" giving full access to Ring cameras.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Targets Are you developing a native app and/or a web app? Can you do a hybrid web/native application? How much member profile information do you need before allowing a user to register? How are you using geographic information? What about reporting and moderation? Reporting What needs to be reported?

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Framework Benchmarks Round 20

TechEmpower

Now in its eighth year, this project measures the high-water mark performance of server side web application frameworks and platforms using predominantly community-contributed test implementations. sebastienros reports that Stephen Toub posted an excellent blog containing detail on all the performance improvements in.NET 5.

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Report: eHarmony Hacked

socalTECH

A security researcher is reporting that Pasadena-based matchmaking site Santa Monica-based eHarmony is alerting users to change their passwords, after a reported breach of customer information. The breach follows a rash of similar security issues from other web-based service providers in the last few months.

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A bug in a medical startup’s website put thousands of COVID-19 test results at risk

TechCrunch LA

A California-based medical startup that provides COVID-19 testing across Los Angeles has pulled down a website it used to allow customers to access their test results after a customer found a vulnerability that allowed access to other people’s personal information.