Cloud hosting firms hit by devastating ransomware attack
Danish cloud hosting firms CloudNordic and Azero – both owned by Certiqa Holding – have suffered a ransomware attack that resulted in most customer data being …
DDoS attacks increase 341% amid pandemic
During the pandemic, cyber attackers targeted industries providing connectivity, services and entertainment to populations forced to shelter-in-place, resulting in a 341% …
Bad bot traffic reaching an all-time high over the past year
In 2020, Imperva saw the highest percentage of bad bot traffic (25.6%) since 2014, while traffic from humans fell by 5.7%. More than 40% of all web traffic requests originated …
Securing the connected home: A joint task for homeowners and their ISP
As COVID-19 spread over the world and nations and businesses adapted to minimize citizens’ and employees’ personal interactions to help contain the infection, a …
Even the world’s freest countries aren’t safe from internet censorship
The largest collection of public internet censorship data ever compiled shows that even citizens of what are considered the world’s freest countries aren’t safe …
DDoS traffic capitalizes on remote working connectivity reliance to disrupt service provider targets
In the first quarter of 2020, DDoS attacks rose more than 278% compared to Q1 2019 and more than 542% compared to the last quarter, according to Nexusguard. Working from home …
Guidelines for assessing ISPs’ security measures in the context of net neutrality
According to the EU’s net neutrality regulation, called the Open Internet Regulation, which came into force in 2016, internet providers should treat all internet traffic to …
Europol wants ISPs to aid law enforcement by dropping CGN technologies
Europol is urging ISPs to stop using Carrier Grade Network Address Translation technologies, because they make identifying and tracking criminals a lot harder. What is Carrier …
Telecoms don’t protect users from government overreach
The data stored on our mobile phones, laptops, and especially our online services can, when aggregated, paint a detailed picture of our lives—where we go, who we see, what we …
The privacy threat of IoT device traffic rate metadata
Even though many IoT devices for smart homes encrypt their traffic, a passive network observer – e.g. an ISP, or a neighborhood WiFi eavesdropper – can infer …
UK govt wants real-time communication surveillance powers, courtesy of telcos
A leaked draft of proposed regulations shows that the UK government is after greater communication surveillance powers, and that in order to get them, it will legally require …
Trump signs into law repeal of US consumers’ online privacy protections
It’s official: US Internet service providers and mobile data carriers will be able to to sell or share its customers’ Web browsing and app usage history and other …