Few weeks ago, candid minds did wonder whether Brazil would challenge the asymmetric US governance over Internet, or be fooled by the ‘Asymmetrics‘, or even accept to be fooled for other ‘good’ reasons, since president Dilma Rousseff called for a rebalancing of Internet power structure and a full stop to US global surveillance and spying …
South African’s are too lazy to backup their stored personal data such as photos, videos and files, a research study has revealed.The study compiled by digital storage company Western Digital (WD) has found that 60% of South Africans never back up stored personal data. According to the study, South Africans store personal files on no …
Despite reports over the weekend claiming that Dropbox was hacked, the company has today released a post-mortem of its downtime, with the blame falling onto its update and database infrastructure. The company said that the weekend’s outage was due to a bug within an update script reinstalling a number of machines containing production traffic for …
Germany is to further delay its implementation of the Data Retention Directive despite facing potential financial penalties of more than €300,000 for each day it fails to transpose it into national law, according to media reports. The country previously implemented the 2006 Directive but a court in the country ruled in 2010 that it was …
When Edward J. Snowden, the disaffected National Security Agency (NSA) contract employee, purloined tens of thousands of classified documents from computers around the world, his actions—and their still-reverberating consequences—heightened international pressure to control the network that has increasingly become the world’s stage. At issue is the technical principle that is the basis for the Internet, …
In 2008, two security researchers at the DefCon hacker conference demonstrated a massive security vulnerability in the worldwide internet traffic-routing system — a vulnerability so severe that it could allow intelligence agencies, corporate spies or criminals to intercept massive amounts of data, or even tamper with it on the fly. The traffic hijack, they showed, …
Summary: From Facebook to Adobe, 2013 has been a tough year for companies looking to defend against cybercrime. Media Outlets: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal In January this year, The New York Times, having been the victim of persistent attacks, experienced a breach which lasted four months. A sophisticated Chinese hacking team …
The organization that oversees the Internet domain name registration industry last week revoked the charter of Dynamic Dolphin, a registrar that has long been closely associated with spam and cybercrime. The move came almost five years after this reporter asked the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to investigate whether the man at …
By William New, Intellectual Property Watch For years, the United States and partner governments have worked vigorously to keep the publics they represent from knowing what they are negotiating behind closed doors in the top-secret Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. But today’s Wikileaks release of the draft intellectual property chapter blew that up, confirming the fears …
17 October 2013ICANN and CDAC Will Launch Research Center to Thwart Security Threats to Domain Name System New Delhi, India… ICANN today announced, in partnership with the Center for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), plans to coordinate on the creation of a Center of Excellence in Domain Name System Security in India. The Center of …