Hurricane Maria’s devastation could necessitate moving 61st ICANN meeting away from Puerto Rico for the second time, but ICANN hopes that won’t be the case. The non-profit released a statement this weekend saying that it still hopes to hold ICANN61 in San Juan, Puerto Rico March 10-15, 2018: ICANN joins the rest of the world …
The cyber security news has been dominated by just one story all month of september: Equifax, which suffered one of the largest reported corporate data breaches in history. Lewis Morgan has gone through the trouble to list the September 2017 cyber breaches, by his count, there have been 174,429,805 known leaked records this month yet …
The offices of the .cat gTLD registry Fundació puntCAT were raided by the Spanish police this morning. The company reported the incident via a series of tweets as the raid was being carried out. “Right now spanish police @guardiacivil is doing an intervention in our office @ICANN,” was tweeted just about 4 hours ago followed …
VeriSign a global leader in domain names and internet security, has today announced that approximately 1.3 million domain name registrations were added to the internet in the second quarter of 2017, bringing the total number of domain name registrations to approximately 331.9 million across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of June 30, 2017.1 The increase …
Smartphones with pre-installed advanced tracking software are on sale in Britain to help employers to snoop on their staff. The devices can be bought in bulk and sold on to unwitting customers, who would have no indication that their messages, location, app usage, call histories, photographs and emails were being monitored at all times. UK …
The QZ reports that Togo is the latest African nation to shut down access to the internet after protests against president Faure Gnassingbé were scheduled to take place this week. Early this year Cameroon imposed a 93-day internet blackout on the country’s Anglophone regions which spoke out their marginalization by the French-speaking government. The blackout …
Everything from our heating systems to our toothbrushes is plugged in and connected to the internet, and smartphones are glued to the palms of our hands. Yet, Americans are using less electricity than we did 10 years ago. Overall residential electricity sales have declined 3 percent from 2010 to 2016, and 7 percent on a …
The FBI yesterday released a public service announcement (PSA) alerting parents to the dangers potentially imposed by smart toys. Early this year, security researcher Troy Hunt, reported that a series of web-connected, app-enabled toys called CloudPets have been hacked. The manufacturer’s central database was reportedly compromised over several months after stunningly poor security, despite the attempts …
McDonalds may just not be the last of the victim of the new gTLDs .Brands domain owners to throw in the towel. The giant food chain has sent a termination letter to relinquish control of the .McDonalds and .MCD TLDs. It also requested that .McDonalds not be delegated to a successor registry operator for two …
According to market research firm Dataxis, which sheds light on the state of broadband penetration and how it will grow in the next five years, 20 million households and businesses will have wired internet connection by 2022 in Africa, compared to 11 million in 2016, predicts Dataxis analyst Sa Eva Nébié. The market analyst firm …