Five strategies for reclaiming our personal privacy online
When Tim Wu published his influential book Master Switch in 2010, he powerfully argued that all communications markets began with a period of creative …
Russia ‘tried to cut off’ World Wide Web
Russia has run large scale experiments to test the feasibility of cutting the country off the World Wide Web, a senior industry executive has …
Hacked Traffic Sign Displays Message: ‘Ebola Outbreak Ahead’
Commuters on Langford Parkway in Gwinnett County got an “interesting” surprise early Wednesday morning as they passed through a construction zone. First, there was …
Free tool reveals mobile apps sending unencrypted data
A surprising amount of mobile data still crosses the Internet unencrypted, and a new free app is designed to show users what isn’t protected. …
China Is Said to Use Powerful New Weapon to Censor Internet
Late last month, China began flooding American websites with a barrage of Internet traffic in an apparent effort to take out services that allow …
This tool can warn you about evil access points nearby
A new open-source tool can periodically scan an area for rogue Wi-Fi access points and can alert network administrators if any are found. The …
New Firefox version says “might as well” to encrypting all Web traffic
Developers of the Firefox browser have moved one step closer to an Internet that encrypts all the world’s traffic with a new feature that …
Akamai: Most Internet attacks in Q4 originated in China
A majority of the Internet attack traffic in 2014’s fourth quarter originated in China, followed by the U.S., according to cloud service provider Akamai. …
A network error routed traffic for the UK’s nuclear weapons agency through Russian telecom
For the past week, something strange has been going on in the European internet. For five days, web traffic from Texas to certain addresses …
Cyber-squatting disputes up 300pc amid web address explosion
There has been a 313pc increase in the number of disputes over the new generation of web addresses in the last eight months The …
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