Google software engineer Milinda Perera said this week that the company is now rolling out an HTTPS version of every single blog stored away on the Blogspot domain. The security step means visitors may load up their favorite blog on this specific domain over an encrypted channel which will prevent any surveillance or eavesdroppers from …
At least 42,000 Irish e-mails with “.ie” domains are included in a massive data breach that has seen both logins and passwords traded amongst criminals in Russia. The accounts are part of an enormous hack that includes the credentials of 272.3 million email accounts across the world. The breach was uncovered by …
US Taxi E-hailing service Uber is experiencing a country-wide outage this morning. Drivers are unable to connect to the platform and passengers cannot hail a cab through the app. A message when opening the app says: “We are experiencing a brief disruption which is making it difficult for drivers to use the app. We’re sorry …
A Brazillian judge has ordered WhatsApp service be reinstated across Brazil, granting an appeal by the messaging app’s parent company, Facebook. The order overturns a regional judge’s ruling on Monday ordered all telephone operators in Brazil to block WhatsApp, the popular messaging app, for failing to turn over data as part of an ongoing drug …
On 28 April 2016 Europol’s Cybercrime Centre (EC3) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the online security company F-Secure Corporation at Europol’s headquarters in The Hague. F-Secure has 20 country offices and a presence in more than 100 countries, with Security Lab operations in Helsinki, Finland and in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Through more than …
ICANN has warned new top level domain name applicants whose contracts have been signed to move to the delegation phase. One .brand new gTLD applicant Emerson Electric Co (NYSE:EMR) has terminated its new TLD ambitions. There are about 200 TLDs with approaching delegation deadlines between now and the end of August 2016. ICANN is working …
ICANN has published a draft of its new bylaws for public comment until May 21, 2016, 23:59 UTC Brief Overview of the Comment Period Purpose: This Public Comment period seeks community input on the Draft New ICANN Bylaws developed to reflect the recommendations contained in the proposals by the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) …
Symantec, a computer security, antivirus, backup and SSL provider, wrote an article about the effect that new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) will have on SSL certificates. There are already many new gTLDs that have been released by ICANN and there will be potentially over a thousand new gTLDs available in the next couple of …
A new global survey by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and conducted by global research company Ipsos records that consumers are increasingly worried about their online privacy and security, especially when it comes to how their personal data is handled by private corporations and governments. The survey across 24 countries finds that a …
It was a rough week for arrogant and unaccountable ICANN. A U.S. District Court Judge, The Honorable R. Gary Klausner, in Los Angeles, actually held the California corporation accountable, a rare event, to which most stakeholders can attest, sweeping aside every one of the arguments interposed by Jones Day, ICANN’s lawyers, and granted a preliminary injunction “barring …