The future of internet governance is to be decided this week as rival groups hammer out a new international telecoms treaty. Regulators from 193 countries are negotiating new International Telecommunications Regulations(ITRs)at the World ...
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Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered that almost all browsers currently used in smartphones and tablets are unsafe, so much so that even cyber-security experts are unable to detect when they are visiting ...
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Yesterday, the chancellor of the exchequer stood at the dispatch box in the House of Commons to present his autumn statement to the UK. Much debate has occurred in the past 24 hours over the real term cuts to benefits, dropping the fuel ...
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The International Telecommunications Union(ITU),which has unilaterally"assumed"control of the governance of the internet,has agreed in sessions held behind closed doors on a new standard covering deep-packet inspection. Further reading ...
Computerworld-The Internet shutdown in Syria likely took very little to accomplish considering the country's limited Internet infrastructure and international connectivity,network analysts said Friday. Such a move would be much harder,if ...
IDG News Service-The Romanian domain names of Google,Yahoo,Microsoft,Kaspersky Lab and other companies were hijacked on Wednesday and were redirected to a hacked server in the Netherlands. The hijacking occurred at the DNS(Domain Name ...
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Leeds City Council authorities have approved the construction of a network-neutral datacentre worth £43m to improve the internet connectivity and cin the region. The datacentre called DC4, will have a floor-space of around ...
Facebook started encrypting the connections of its North American users by default last week as part of a plan to roll out always-on HTTPS(Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)to its entire global user base. For the past several ...
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Computerworld-A federal judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of a provision in a just-enacted California state law that requires all registered sex-offenders to immediately turn over the all of their Internet identifiers and the names ...
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The UK's Draft Data Communications Bill–aimed at making it easier for authorities to spy on electronic communications–will be useless and quite dangerous if enacted,says Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. "It will force many ...
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The focus of the mobile industry of late has been ensuring the roll-out of 4G begins. However, with only one mobile network operator (MNO) capable of providing the faster network until at least the middle of next year, operators are always ...
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Equinix,the provider of network-neutral datacentres,is adding 4,000 square metres of datacentre space with an additional capacity for 1,400 cabinets at its London Slough LD5 International Business Exchange(IBX)datacentre. Equinix will ...
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Police across Europe could soon find themselves monitoring Facebook,Google and Twitter for content related to terrorism. A leaked report about a"Clean IT"initiative by the European Union(EU)revealed the plan for police officers ...
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A leaked document from a project set up by the European Commission to fight terrorism online reveals suggestions for wide-ranging surveillance. The CleanIT project was set up to create voluntary guidelines to stamp out terrorism ...
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The US is collecting huge amounts of data on its citizens, according to former National Security Agency (NSA) official Bill Binney. While at the NSA, Binney led the development of secret software he now believes is being used to carry out ...
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