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USA opposes 'Schengen cloud' Eurocentric routing plan
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2014-04-07 04:20
The US Trade Representative is warning Europe not to proceed with the idea of EU data network services that don't cross the Atlantic.
The idea of a European “walled garden” emerged in February amid rising anger over revelations that the NSA wants to listen to the whole world – and that its sweeps included snooping on German Chancellor Angela Merke's own BlackBerry.
Incapsula: 2014 DDoS Trends - Botnet Activity is up by 240%.
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2014-03-31 02:03
Today we are releasing a DDoS Threat Landscape report which provides several important, and often surprising, facts about DDoS activity in 2013 and the beginning of 2014.
When we started working on this report back in January, our goal was to provide a recap of 2013 DDoS trends. However, the offenders had other plans. And so, just as we were preparing for the report to come out, we started encountering new types of DDoS events which were too significant to overlook.
Facebook wants to beam the Internet from the sky
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2014-03-28 05:32
Facebook revealed Thursday it has a lab working on using drones, satellites and solar-powered planes to provide web access around the world.
"We've been working on ways to beam Internet to people from the sky," Facebook co-founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on the leading social network.
Let US spies keep their internet. The EU will build its own
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2014-02-17 22:46
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has lent her support to the idea of building out new European data networks to help keep Europeans' email and other data out of the hands of US spies.
In the latest edition of her weekly podcast on Saturday, Merkel said she planned to raise the issue among other topics in a meeting with French President François Hollande this week.
Massive DDoS Attack Leveraged Network Timing Protocol
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2014-02-12 18:13
One of the largest distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) ever seen hit the Internet Feb. 11, cloud security vendor CloudFlare reported.
The target was a CloudFlare customer, and the attack appears to have been just shy of 400G bps, Matthew Prince, the company's CEO, told eWEEK. "We're still gathering data from all our upstream providers to get the exact scale."