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Russia Begins Censoring The Web
Not to be outdone by the likes of China and Iran, it looks like Russian censors are making the most of new internet laws that allow them to block websites containing content deemed “illegal or harmful to children”, according to a report in the New York Times. Since the law was introduced last November, Russian ...
Lenovo Eying Up NEC’s Smartphone Unit
Lenovo’s determination to buy up a mobile phone company shows no signs of abating, or at least it doesn’t if all of these rumors flying around are anything to go by. Having been linked with a buyout of BlackBerry earlier this year, it’s reported that the PC maker has now turned its attention to NEC’s ...
Microsoft Increases Transparency with New Patent Tracker Tool
About a month ago, Microsoft’s general counsel and executive vice president Brad Smith made a pledge to publish the details of each and everyone one of the patents held by the company, so that anyone could research them online. Today, the company has fulfilled that promise, with the release of its new Patent Tracker Tool ...
Bitcoin Under Attack? Dwolla & Mt. Gox Both Hit With DDoS Attacks Overnight
Another day, another DDoS attack. This time round, it’s the turn of alternative online payments provider Dwolla, which saw its website taken offline for a brief period of time. The site has since come back online, but the company said in a statement that the some users may still experience issues as the attack remains ...
Google Makes Patent Pledge, Promises It Won’t Sue Open-Source Developers
Google has come out with an interesting promise that might just be the start of something big. It’s made a public pledge not to sue any user, developer or distributor of open-source software on ten specified patents, unless it falls under attack first. For now, the pledge relates to a mere 10 patents linked to ...
Did CloudFlare Lie To Us About The Spamhaus Cyberattack?
The headlines yesterday were earth-shattering, with tech blogs and news agencies screaming in unison about how the “Largest ever cyberattack slows the internet for millions”, or the “Global Internet slows after biggest attack in history”. Even I was caught off guard with my own report, “CyberBunker Launches World’s Largest DDoS Attack, Slows Down the Entire ...
Egypt Arrests Divers “Trying To Sabotage Undersea Cables”
In one of the more ‘hands on’ examples of cyber-espionage we’ve seen in a while, Egypt’s military has reported that it’s managed to arrest three scuba divers in the process of trying to sever an undersea cable that connects the country to the World Wide Web. Speaking on the Egyptian armed forces Facebook page, Colonel Ahmed ...
US Slaps China With Cyber-Security Law; Huawei, ZTE & Lenovo Will All Suffer
There was quite a kerfuffle late last year when a US congressional panel warned that the Chinese government might be using hardware from manufacturers like Huawei and ZTE to spy on government agencies and other institutions. The Chinese angrily denied the accusations, but by then the damage to its reputation had already been done, leading ...
CyberBunker Launches “World’s Largest” DDoS Attack, Slows Down The Entire Internet
A massive cyberattack launched by the Dutch web hosting company CyberBunker has caused global disruption of the web, slowing down internet speeds for millions of users across the world, according to a BBC report. CyberBunker launched an all-out assault, described by the BBC as the world’s biggest ever cyberattack, on the self-appointed spam-fighting company Spamhaus, ...
AWS Launches CloudHSM App To Bolster Data Security In The Cloud
In an effort to boost data security in the cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has just launched a new service called AWS CloudHSM, designed to help its customers meet strict regulatory requirements without sacrificing their cloud application’s performance. AWS says that the new security feature is aimed at customers whose regulatory requirements prevent them from ...