Syria’s civil war went offline Thursday as millions of people tracking the conflict over YouTube, Facebook and other high-tech services found themselves struggling against an unnerving national shutdown of the Internet. Read More
On behalf of Lynn St. Amour, President and CEO, and the Internet Society Board of Trustees: Emerging reports from various organizations and individuals indicate that international Internet connectivity was shut off in Syria today. The Internet is an open, global medium for communication, idea exchange, empowerment, and innovation. Access to the global Internet is a …
A global row has broken out over who should control and profit from the internet, after a draft proposal by a United Nations body was published online. The little-known UN body, the (ITU), is pushing to regulate the internet, and has suggested a range of reforms which would potentially stifle free speech and make users …
oncerned over rising threats online, Cyber security agents in Africa are taking a proactive step by collaborating with global network-security experts, to curb cybercriminal activities in the continent where they will share information and technical know how. Cyber security agents in Africa will gain an even better view of emerging cyber threats by working with experts who …
West African nation Gabon plans blocking the mooted creation of a new website from file sharing service Megaupload that could use the African country’s internet domain name ‘.ga’. US authorities have disabled www.megaupload.com, after charges of a conspiracy to commit racketeering, copyright infringement and money laundering have been levelled at Megaupload founder and German tech …
Adapted from CircleID. The new gTLD program will have a profound impact on the private sector’s increasing dominance over Internet information resources and ownership of critical registry technical infrastructure assets. It is already anticipated that only the private sector will take full advantage of the commercial possibilities offered by the introduction of new gTLDs, and …
A free web-based program aimed at educating children about cyber safety through games, videos, and other interactive features has been unveiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Dubbed the FBI-SOS (Safe Online Surfing) Internet Challenge, the site features six grade-specific virtual islands for students from third-grade through eighth-grade. Each virtual island has specific cyber safety …
Hackers crippled government and private websites Wednesday to protest the Cybercrime Prevention Act, which has faced criticism both legally and online since the announcement of its approval. Read more
High-profile ‘DDOS’ – distributed denial of service – attacks used to knock company websites off the internet, rely on the same ‘botnets’ – huge networks of zombie computers, which each send dozens or hundreds of requests to the site under attack. Read More
WHILE crimes such as murder, car hijacking and house robberies dominated headlines last week when crime statistics were announced by Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa, experts say cyber crime and hacking in the country have gone largely ignored. Read More