A court in The Hague, Netherlands has ordered Internet providers to block the The Pirate Bay website or face large fines, a ruling that means accessing the Swedish-born site directly will soon be impossible for most Dutch consumers.
The Netherlands has become the first country in Europe and only the second in the world to pass Net Neutrality legislation. The new law forces ISPs to treat all traffic equally and, crucially, also prevents them from peering too much into what the users are sending and receiving via their networks.
There's been plenty of talk around the world about this type of legislation, but it's a controversial subject, not least because ISPs, copyright-dependent companies, police and government agencies and so on, don't want anything like this ever becoming law.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 27 April 2012 - This year Google has once again extended its Diversity Grant Program for female hackers to attend the third annual HITB conference in Europe, HITBSecConf2012 - Amster
Ning, a DIY social networking platform with 90,000 networks and more than 100 million registered users, has been hacked. Reports are flowing in from Dutch news sites detailing the vulnerability, and according to Nu.nl, as many as all 100m accounts were compromised through a process known as cookie injection.
From Nu.nl (via Google Translate):
A 17-year-old Dutch boy and an Australian teenager were arrested last week in their own countries on suspicion of hacking into servers, South Korea's Cyber Terror Response Centre said in a statement.
A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt wrote about a surprising initiative by the Netherlands to introduce new flexibilities into its copyright law. Given that leadership from the Dutch government, it's probably no surprise that a few days later, the Dutch Parliament also showed itself in the political vanguard by voting not to ratify ACTA for the time being.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 23 February 2012 – What first began as a small gathering for computer security enthusiasts in 2002, Hack In The Box Security Conference (HITBSecConf) has since grown into a must attend event in the calendar of security professionals from around the world. In May this year, HITBSecConf will again return to Amsterdam for the European leg of its conference where it will unleash Bank0verflow – the latest evolution of its Capture The Flag competition.
Health-care technology and lighting vendor Royal Philips Electronics has reported a possible security breach affecting a portion of its website.
The "possible security event," related to some of its micro websites, happened on Monday, said Philips, based in Amsterdam. The compromised server was shut down within an hour of Philips employees discovering the breach, the company said.
Dutch telecoms company KPN has offered “two million apologies” in a national advertising campaign to pacify 2m subscribers who were unable to access emails on Friday and Saturday as it overhauled its systems following an earlier cyberattack.
The email shutdown is the latest blow for the former national telephone monopoly, which issued a profit warning in January due to falling market share and faces a competition inquiry over alleged price-fixing on mobile rates.
Randomdata is a Hackerspace in Utrecht, The Netherlands, that is holding a DIY Amateur Radio license course.
The group say "We have decided to skip the 27 MHz band and head straight to the 'real' amateur radio stuff. After we have passed our exams, it's to discuss hardware! We have to build radios, antennas, packet modems etc. So a lot of tinkering to do!".
