We have had news stories before about international law enforcement agencies banding together to take down websites that deal in illicit goods or counterfeit merchandise. Yesterday the U.S, Canada and European agencies made another round of takedowns, the difference this time is that they hit the "Dark Web" websites using stuff like the onion router or TOR. USA Today covered the story: Police … [Read more...]
The 100 People Who Will Shape The Future of The Internet
Kieren McCarthy wrote a piece on TheRegister.co.uk about the 100 people who will shape the future of the Internet. The article takes a look at the Cross Community Working Group who will set out to propose the right transition plan for IANA. From the article: Unfortunately, despite having had nearly 14 years to think about it, the process for deciding how to move the global internet and its … [Read more...]
Chinese Government Launches Attack Against iCloud Users
According to Ars Technica it seems that China is running a man-in-the-middle attack on iCloud users. They have a screenshot of this on their website, this was discovered by a group called GreatFire.org. From the article: GreatFire.org, a group that monitors censorship by the Chinese government’s national firewall system (often referred to as the “Great Firewall”), reports that China is using … [Read more...]
Is Microsoft the Self Appointed Sheriff of the Internet ?
Robert McMillan of Wired did an interesting piece on how Microsoft became the self appointed Sheriff of the Internet. The article starts off detailing the facts in the case of No-IP. Apparently Microsoft had noticed that an unusually high amount of malware was going out to domain from No-IP.org. It was 7 o’clock in the morning when the knocking on Dan Durrer’s front door woke him up. His dog … [Read more...]
Does Anyone Actually Care About Security Online ?
It has been reported by just about every major media outlet that the largest ever heist of user data took place recently by a group of Russian hackers. 1.2 billion passwords and 500 million email addresses. Over 420,000 websites are apparently involved. Kashmir Hill from Forbes had the most interesting take on the story out of all the sites I read on the topic. Hill delved into how Hold … [Read more...]
Virtual Reality Could be the next big thing in Advertising
Cotton Delo published an article on Ad Age that looked at Virtual Reality and its role in advertising. Virtual Reality got a big boost with Facebook purchasing Oculus Rift, the deal closed a couple weeks ago and for a good read on the deal check out The Guardian and their story "Facebook closes its $2bn Oculus Rift acquisition. What next?Social network completes deal announced in March, so what … [Read more...]
Company that bought Mi.com for $3.6m sells 50,000 Tablets in 4 minutes
Xiaomi paid $3.6 million for the domain name Mi.com back in April, and today they sold 50,000 MiPad tablets in four minutes. The company said on their website: Good news! Mi Pad goes on sale for the first time today, and 50, 000 sets of Mi Pad sold out in 3 minutes 59 seconds! Features of Mi Pad: 7.9”IPS display 2048x1536 326 PPI NVIDIA Tegra K1 2GB RAM, 16/64GB Flash, … [Read more...]