IDG News Service - Swedish police confiscated three servers allegedly connected to copyright infringements during a raid on PRQ, a hosting service that was once home to The Pirate Bay. The main target was the Swedish torrent site ...
Tags: servers, hosting service, core routing system, controversial websites
Google has shut down its online shopping service in China, further slimming down its product portfolio for the country after it pulled the plug on its free music service back in September. The Internet giant said it closed the site on ...
Tags: Google, Shopping Service, free music service, Global Market Finder
The Government Digital Service (GDS) is rolling out open source content management system Drupal, according to one of its suppliers. GDS is also looking at integrating a Drupal function that will allow it to spin out new government sites ...
Tags: GDS, open source, Drupal, content management system
Former Pirate Bay host PRQ.se went down in the middle of a police raid on Monday, affecting hundreds of hosted sites and thousands of users of PRQ's other services. But the raid and the outage are unlikely to be related, according to PRQ's ...
Tags: Former Pirate Bay, PRQ, DDoS attack, network
Two government departments have migrated onto the Gov.uk site, as part of the first moves to bring all departmental information under a single domain. The home pages of the Department for Transport and the Department for Communities and ...
Tags: departmental information, UK, Internet, network
China and the U.S. were the two largest sources of Internet-attack traffic in the first quarter of 2012, increasing to account for 16% and 11% respectively, according to Akamai Technologies. Attack traffic from China increased three ...
Tags: China, U.S., internet attacks, the first quarter of 2012
There is no question the Public Services Network(PSN)has been gaining momentum over the past 12 months.The"network of networks"to enable local services to save cash by using shared infrastructure and having better access to applications has ...
Tags: PSN, network, Computer Weekly
The websites of several Swedish government agencies were knocked offline on Friday. The website failures coincided with threats by hacktivists, claiming to be members of the Anonymous collective, to launch a cyber attack against Swedish ...
Tags: Swedish government, hacktivists, Anonymous collective, cyber attack
The government has saved £41m in website costs since July 2011, with the total number of sites down by 61 to 383, according to official figures. The news comes as the government moves to accelerate the closure of its website estate ...
Tags: website, website costs, information site, government sites