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A Field Guide to the Internet Infrastructure That Hides in Plain Sight
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2015-02-26 12:59
The internet is everywhere. In another, more concrete way, it’s inside massive, anonymous buildings and beneath city streets, marked by special manhole covers and cryptic, colorful symbols.
Dutch government websites KO'd by 10-hour DDoS
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2015-02-12 14:44
The Netherlands government’s websites were taken offline for around 10 hours on Wednesday following a DDoS attack.
The motive for the sustained packet-flinging assault – directed against the Dutch government website's hosting provider, Prolocation – remains unclear.
Darren Anstee, director of solutions architects at Arbor Networks, commented: “Based on the information currently available, it looks as if a variety of attack vectors may have been used in these attacks, which in itself is not that unusual.”
Satellite Internet: meet the hip new investment for Richard Branson, Elon Musk
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2015-01-19 03:31
It was an interesting week for ideas about the future of the Internet. On Wednesday, satellite industry notable Greg Wyler announced that his company OneWeb, which wants to build a micro-satellite network to bring Internet to all corners of the globe, secured investments from Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Qualcomm. Then in a separate announcement on Friday, Elon Musk said that he would also be devoting his new Seattle office to creating "advanced micro-satellites" to deliver Internet.
Piracy-beating VPN clamp down by Netflix is pointless
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2015-01-05 00:53
Netflix is one of the many websites that can only be accessed in certain parts of the world or has region specific versions. Of course, where there's a will there's a way, and there are numerous tools that can be used to bypass any restrictions that may have been put in place.
US govt tells ICANN: No accountability, no keys to the internet
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2014-12-05 23:10
America's assistant commerce secretary Larry Strickling has told domain-name overlord ICANN that without improvements to its accountability the US government will not hand over the crucial IANA contract.
IANA is the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, a department of ICANN that oversees the DNS system keeping the internet glued together, the allocation of IP addresses, and other crucial behind-the-scenes bits of online life.