Collaborate Disseminate
Internet service providers are pushing back against the Biden administration’s requirement for low-cost options even as they are attempting to secure funds from a $42.45 billion government broadband initiative. The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deploym… Continue reading ISPs Seeking Government Handouts Try To Avoid Offering Low-Cost Broadband
Investigative journalist and cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs writes: The Chinese company in charge of handing out domain names ending in “.top” has been given until mid-August 2024 to show that it has put in place systems for managing phishing reports… Continue reading Phish-Friendly Domain Registry ‘.top’ Put On Notice
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA): Alexey Soldatov, a Russian Internet pioneer and a founder of the first Internet provider in the country, has been sentenced by a court to two years in a labor colo… Continue reading The Kremlin Jails the Father of Russia’s Internet
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: For years, the people building powerful artificial intelligence systems have used enormous troves of text, images and videos pulled from the internet to train their models. Now, that data is … Continue reading The Data That Powers AI Is Disappearing Fast
Bangladesh is experiencing a “near-total” nationwide internet shutdown amid government efforts to control widespread student protests against the country’s quota system for government jobs. The country’s quota system requires a third of government jobs… Continue reading Bangladesh Is Experiencing a ‘Near-Total’ Internet Shutdown Amid Student Protests
Security firm CloudStrike misconfigured a Windows security update, triggering a massive worldwide Internet outage.
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6.8%, to be precise.
From ZDNet:
However, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continue to be cybercriminals’ weapon of choice, making up over 37% of all mitigated traffic. The scale of these attacks is staggering. In the first quarter of 2024 alone, Cloudflare blocked 4.5 million unique DDoS attacks. That total is nearly a third of all the DDoS attacks they mitigated the previous year.
But it’s not just about the sheer volume of DDoS attacks. The sophistication of these attacks is increasing, too. Last August, Cloudflare mitigated a massive HTTP/2 Rapid Reset DDoS attack that peaked at 201 million requests per second (RPS)…
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Repairs have finally commenced on three subsea telecommunications cables that were damaged in the Red Sea in February, even as Houthi militants escalate their attacks on ships in the area. From a report: The AAE-1 cable, a 25,000-kilometer (15,500 mile… Continue reading Damaged Internet Subsea Cables Repaired in Red Sea Amid Militant Attacks on Ships
Repairs have finally commenced on three subsea telecommunications cables that were damaged in the Red Sea in February, even as Houthi militants escalate their attacks on ships in the area. From a report: The AAE-1 cable, a 25,000-kilometer (15,500 mile… Continue reading Damaged Internet Subsea Cables Repaired in Red Sea Amid Militant Attacks on Ships
In its latest State of Application Security Report, Cloudflare says 6.8% of traffic on the internet is malicious, “up a percentage point from last year’s study,” writes ZDNet’s Steven Vaughan-Nichols. “Cloudflare, the content delivery network and secur… Continue reading Cloudflare Reports Almost 7% of Internet Traffic Is Malicious