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A Russian-Speaking Group Is Advertising "Bulletproof" Hosting for Cybercriminals
Dec 11, 2013A Russian-speaking group is advertising "bulletproof" hosting for cybercriminals from data centres in Syria and Lebanon, an apparent effort to place new services in locales where Western law enforcement has little influence. The ...
Tags: bulletproof, Russian, cybercriminals, data centre, Internet
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Key Traffic Has Been "Hijacked" Several Times
Nov 27, 2013Key traffic across the internet has been "hijacked" several times this year and deliberately routed through locations in, first, Belarus and then Iceland. The hijackings - or "network interceptions" - were targeted at specific cities and ...
Tags: Internet, traffic, hijacked, Belarus, Iceland, Renesys
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Internet Service Has Been Restored to Aleppo,Syria's Largest City
Oct 11, 2013Internet service has been restored to Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, with a renewed connection to Turkey’s largest telecommunications provider, according to Internet monitoring company Renesys. Aleppo’s connectivity ...
Tags: Internet service
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A Country Engulfed by Civil War, Again Came to a Halt on Wednesday
May 17, 2013Internet traffic to and from Syria, a country engulfed by civil war, again came to a halt on Wednesday, according to Internet monitoring company Renesys. "Syrian Internet down again since 07:01 UTC (10:00 Damascus time), Wednesday, 15 May ...
Tags: Syria Disappears, Internet
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Internet Traffic in and out of War-Torn Syria Has Been Restored After a Disruption
May 17, 2013Internet traffic in and out of war-torn Syria has been restored after a disruption of nearly eight and a half hours, according to Internet traffic charts. Internet traffic began flowing across Syria's borders again at 6:26 p.m. Damascus ...
Tags: Syrian, Internet Service, Computer Products
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Syria Suffered Another Internet and Mobile Communications Outage That Lasted for 20 Hours
May 10, 2013Syria suffered another Internet and mobile communications outage that lasted for about 20 hours. Service was restored earlier on Wednesday. The Syrian government earlier today blamed the?Internet blackout, which had gone into its second ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Egypt Arrested Three Men Suspected of Slicing a Crucial Undersea Internet Cable
Mar 29, 2013Egypt said it has arrested three men suspected of slicing a crucial undersea Internet cable on Wednesday, causing widespread problems from Kenya to Pakistan. The South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) cable runs 12,500 ...
Tags: Internet cable, Internet, Divers
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The Country's Official Media Blamed on International Hacking
Mar 21, 2013Internet connectivity to North Korea was restored Friday after a day-and-a-half-long outage that the country's official media blamed on international hacking. Connections to the Star, North Korea's sole Internet service provider, hit ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Internet Connectivity in North Korea Was Restored on Friday
Mar 19, 2013Internet connectivity in North Korea was restored on Friday following a 36-hour outage that the country’s official media blamed on international hacking. Connections to the Star, North Korea’s sole Internet service provider, ...
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Cuba's Internet Speeds Increased on Tuesday
Jan 24, 2013Cuba's Internet speeds increased on Tuesday, and the country appears to be routing more traffic through a previously dormant undersea fiber-optic cable, according to Internet monitoring company Renesys. Renesys noticed last week that ...
Tags: Cuba, Internet speeds, fiber-optic cable
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Cuba May Have Turned on a Fiber-Optic Submarine Cable That Links It to The Global Internet
Jan 23, 2013A change in Internet traffic patterns over the past week suggests that Cuba may have turned on a fiber-optic submarine cable that links it to the global Internet via Venezuela, according to Internet routing analysis company Renesys. ...
Tags: fiber-optic submarine cable, Cuba, Internet
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The Classic Quote About a Financial Crisis Is Also True for Data Centers
Dec 31, 2012The classic quote from Warren Buffett about a financial crisis is also true for data centers. It's "only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked," the multibillionaire businessman said. Hurricane Sandy brought the ...
Tags: NYC, data centers, US, IT industry
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Internet Access in Syria Has Been Shut off Nationwide
Dec 26, 2012Internet access in Syria has been shut off nationwide, and network watchers Akamai and Renesys have issued charts illustrating the dramatic traffic collapse. RELATED: Anatomy of an Internet blackout Syria has experienced partial ...
Tags: Internet access, Syria, network, Akamai, Renesys
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Internet and Mobile Communications Were Shut Down in War-Torn Syria
Dec 26, 2012Internet and mobile communications were shut down on Thursday morning in war-torn Syria. Renesys Corp., a global Internet monitoring firm, earlier today reported a "major outage" in Syria, and added that a kill switch had been thrown ...
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Internet Access in Syria Has Been Shut off Nationwide
Dec 20, 2012Internet access in Syria has been shut off nationwide, and network watchers Akamai and Renesys have issued charts illustrating the dramatic traffic collapse. Syria has experienced partial blackouts this year, but this nationwide blackout ...
Tags: internet blackout, Syrian internet blackout, Internet, cellphone networks