The department for culture, media and sport (DCMS) introduced its new minister to the broadband industry today with controversial rules aiming to speed up deployment of superfast connections across the UK. Maria Miller, who takes over ...
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U.S. ISPs are reporting a significant rise in IPv6 traffic during the last three months, even though the overall numbers remain tiny -- less than 1% of Internet traffic. RELATED: How the U.S. is winning the race to next-gen Internet ...
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Researchers from security vendor Damballa have identified malicious Internet traffic that they believe is generated by a new and elusive variant of the sophisticated TDL4 malware. The new threat, which has been assigned the generic name ...
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Details have emerged of an extraordinary attack in which millions of DSL broadband routers in Brazil were hit by a serious software flaw that allowed criminals to gain complete control of all web traffic running through them. First ...
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The Ministry of Defence (MoD) will auction off public services spectrum next year to help the government free up the airwaves for commercial purposes. The frequencies, previously used for the likes of emergency services and ...
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IDG News Service - Brand-new laptop and desktop computers sold in China contain preinstalled malicious software, which has infected millions of computers around the world, according to an investigation by Microsoft revealed on Thursday. ...
Google has blocked access in India to a YouTube film trailer that mocks the Prophet Muhammad, claiming it was meeting a valid legal process, the company said on Friday. Earlier a source at the Internet Service Providers Association of ...
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According to a recent report from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), some 19 million Americans live in rural areas where broadband Internet access is either unavailable or delivered at speeds that fall well below targeted goals. ...
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Groups of companies in the same industry could pool infrastructure resources to help each other mitigate the effects of cyber attacks and work together on security issues, a senior official in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ...
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Microsoft has uncovered a vulnerability in the PC supply chain that allows hackers to pre-install malware-infected copies of Windows onto new machines. As a result, the company has received approval from a federal court to strangle a ...
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As many as 300,000 PCs and Macs will drop off the Internet in about 65 hours unless their owners heed last-minute calls to scrub their machines of malware. According to a group of security experts formed to combat DNSChanger, between a ...
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The lack of an international agreement on cybercrime and terrorism is thwarting efforts to bring terrorists to justice,said a report released this week by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime(UNODC). Nations should consider a ...
The Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO) is asking companies around Silicon Roundabout to share their experiences of broadband in the area. The group was boosted recently when Vodafone and Amazon announced plans to invest in the ...
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Mobile operators in the UK are not known for being the best of friends. Be it fighting for the latest exclusive handset or threatening court action over 4G rollouts, the big guns have never been at the top of each other's Christmas lists. ...
Juniper Networks failed to protect the London Internet Exchange (Linx) from an outage yesterday, a spokesman has confirmed. At approximately 4pm, traffic transported over Linx’s two local area networks (Lans) – which route the ...
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