The COVID-19 pandemic has given opportunities for online criminals targeting e-retailers and their customers. As ecommerce traffic and purchases surged after governments around the world imposed stay-at-home directives, total monthly online fraud attempts rose and the scammers made online retailing their top target. During the 104 days from Dec. 30, 2019, through April 12, 2020, the …
Intentionally shutting down or restricting access to the internet violates multiple rights and can be deadly during a health crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic, Human Rights Watch said today. Governments that are currently imposing an internet shutdown, such as Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, and Myanmar, should lift them immediately to save lives. During a health …
Consumers in African countries are paying some of the highest rates in the world for internet access as a proportion of income, due to a lack of competition in local markets according to a new report released Tuesday. The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) assessed 136 low and middle-income countries for their annual Affordability Report. …
Across Africa, where less than a third of the population has access to broadband connectivity, achieving universal, affordable, and good quality internet access by 2030 will require an investment of US $100 billion. This is according to a report launched at the Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group, which calls for urgent action to …
Google’s plans to use a new internet protocol has raised concerns among congressional antitrust investigators who worry it could give the company an unfair competitive advantage, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. Investigators want to know whether Google will use any data collected through the new protocol for commercial purposes. The new standard, called DNS-over-HTTPS, …
YAHOO and Yahoo Mail are still down this morning with users seemingly unable to access the popular service and its email. Yahoo has now confirmed the outage and is working on a fix. According to DownDetector, the issues started at around 07:38 BST, and are affecting users around the world According to one Twitter user, …
Google has given new revelations about its indexing issues in April, where part of the search index was temporarily lost. This was on April 5th when Google accidentally dropped pages from its search index while it was pushing out an update to its data centers. This was small and only affected a small number of …
Twitter Inc said on Thursday that its microblogging platform was back up partially after suffering a worldwide outage for more than an hour. “We were down … and now slowly coming back up. Sorry!,” Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey said in a tweet here The interruption was due to an internal system change, the company …
Crypto exchange Coinbase experienced a brief outage Wednesday afternoon, with both its website and API rendered temporarily inaccessible, as the price of bitcoin dropped more than $1,700 in the span of 15 minutes. According to Coinbase’s status page, the exchange reported major outages across its website, mobile apps and API, though its internal systems appeared to be …
A Verizon error resulted in a “cascading catastrophic failure” that triggered widespread internet outages on Monday, affecting Cloudflare, Amazon, Facebook, and others. Website accelerator firm Cloudflare described the event as a “small heart attack” that left websites that rely on it, such as voice and text chat app Discord, unreachable from many parts of the …