Collaborate Disseminate
Experts have warned that ‘768k day’ could cause significant headaches next month, but service providers told Motherboard that the threat is overhyped. Continue reading ‘768K Day’ Is As Overhyped As Y2K, ISP Says
If your Google Home, Home Mini and/or Google Chromecast streaming stick were not working properly, you are not alone.
Google Home, Home Mini, and Chromecast were down globally for many users for several hours, leaving a lot of people with trouble watc… Continue reading Google Home and Chromecast DOWN? Reboot them to Fix the Glitch
The Department of Homeland Security wants help identifying, attributing and combatting major internet outages and disruptions — and it will pay. Last week, at an industry day and in solicitation documents posted online, the department’s Science and Technology Directorate invited research proposals under its “Predict, Assess Risk, Identify (and Mitigate) Disruptive Internet-scale Network Events,” or PARIDINE. These large-scale internet outages or slowdowns can have many causes, explained PARIDINE program manager Ann Cox — from natural disasters like hurricanes or tsunamis, to accidents that can knock out physical infrastructure, through geo-political events like a country trying to cut itself off from the internet, to the mass-scale re-routing of internet traffic. Large-scale re-routing incidents can happen by accident; but they can also be caused by malicious actors using a technique called border gateway protocol, or BGP, hijacking. On Twitter, security analyst Richard Bejtlich called BGP hijacking, “Probably[the] biggest Internet weakness hardly any[one] knows/cares about.” […]
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Social apps like WhatsApp and Facebook are lifelines between members of the African diaspora. Continue reading Cameroon’s Internet Has Been Cut For Four Weeks With No End in Sight