The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced that its Middle East DNS Forum, scheduled for 24-25 March 2020, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is being postponed. This decision was made in partnership with its hosts, as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, considered a public health emergency of international concern by the …
Cisco on Monday unveiled SecureX, a new cloud-native security platform that aims to give businesses better visibility across their security portfolio via analytics and workflow automation. Cisco said SecureX will unify visibility into a company’s existing security products, including those from Cisco and third-party providers. The platform can analyze data across endpoints, cloud, network, and applications, allowing customers …
The ICANN 67 Public Meeting has been moved to an online event due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that its ICANN67 Public Meeting, which was to be held in Cancún, Mexico, will now be held via remote participation-only. This decision was made as a result …
The US has expanded its lawsuit against Huawei, accusing the Chinese telecoms giant of a “decades-long” plan to steal technology from US firms. Federal prosecutors announced Thursday new criminal charges against Huawei and two of its U.S. subsidiaries, which included racketeering conspiracy charges and a charge of plotting to steal trade secrets from American companies. …
Several organizations including EFF, NTEN, Fight for the Future, Demand Progress, and other nonprofits have planned an in person protest rally outside ICANN’s offices in Los Angeles for the planned .Org sale to Ethos Capital. The protesters will also be delivering a petition, signed by over 21,000 individuals and 600 organizations and NGOs, to ICANN …
Microsoft is rolling out a security fix to Windows 10 after the US National Security Agency (NSA) warned the popular operating system contained a highly dangerous flaw that could be used by hackers. Reporting the vulnerability represents a departure for the NSA from its past strategy of keeping security flaws under wraps to exploit for …
Last November, shocking reports revealed that a Private equity firm Ethos Capital was in the course to acquire the Public Interest Registry (PIR), which runs the .org domain used for non-profit organisations’ websites from the Internet Society ISOC. The acquisision move has been denounced by Internet freedom groups as well as ICANN’s decision to remove …
In this year’s Cyber Security Predictions, the WatchGuard Threat Lab has imagined the top cyber attacks we’ll see in 2020 and has provided tips for simplifying your approach to stopping them. Even though the threats coming at you won’t be any less intense, complicated, or difficult to manage, 2020 will be the year of simplified …
According to a local daily, Safaricom is seeking to pre-qualify suppliers of a location tracking and intelligence platform, and has invited bids for the service that would help the operator to build profiles of customers based on their locations and telephone usage. This could be signalling the telecoms firm’s plan to monetise data in its …
Researchers at Check Point cyber security firm have discovered a WhatsApp bug that allows people to wreak havoc in group chats and crash the messaging app for all members. The firm say the issue means that people can send a destructive group chat message that causes a swift and complete crash of the entire WhatsApp …