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TeleGeography's Interactive Submarine Cable Map Is a Fun and Fascinating View Into Infrastructure 27 Aug 2013 | 02:23 am
TeleGeography Submarine Cable Map http://www.submarinecablemap.com/Ever want to know where all the submarine cables are that provide part of the physical infrastructure of the Internet? Or which citie...
Global Surveillance: Towards Convergence? 26 Aug 2013 | 10:04 pm
Built for the most part during the Cold War, surveillance systems on a global scale were considered a vital necessity with the onset of nuclear weapons, if only to keep Mutually Assured Destruction at...
5 Questions to Ask To Choose the Right Website Monitoring Solution 24 Aug 2013 | 04:36 am
In these competitive times and with the holiday's looming, your Website experience needs to give customers a "warm and fuzzy" feeling. That is, it should be available and fast, with no major hiccups. ...
DNS Amplification Attacks: Out of Sight, Out of Mind? 24 Aug 2013 | 01:20 am
Geoff Huston's recent post about the rise of DNS amplification attacks offers excellent perspective on the issue. Major incidents like the Spamhaus attack Geoff mentions at the beginning of his post m...
Facebook Announces Plan to Make Internet Access Available to All, Launches Internet.org 21 Aug 2013 | 09:15 pm
Facebook announces global partnership with Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm, Samsung as founding partners of Internet.org — an initiative to expand global internet access availability.Mark Z...
A Question of DNS Protocols 21 Aug 2013 | 07:29 am
One of the most prominent denial of service attacks in recent months was one that occurred in March 2013 between Cloudflare and Spamhaus. One writeup of this attack can be found here. I'm not sure abo...
ICANN Must Now Decide String Similarity Question 20 Aug 2013 | 10:12 pm
Yesterday, a decision on a string confusion objection was reached by a dispute resolution provider that resulted in a scenario that ICANN and the Applicant Guidebook had not addressed — conflicting op...
A Quick Look at Today's Amazon Outage 20 Aug 2013 | 07:26 am
Craig Labovitz writes to report: At 18:40 UTC Amazon Web Services suffered performance issues for their North Virginia datacenter. The performance issues impacted services such as EC2, S3, SES, RDS, a...
The Challenge of DNS Security 20 Aug 2013 | 01:37 am
When the domain name system (DNS) was first designed, security was an afterthought. Threats simply weren't a consideration at a time when merely carrying out a function — routing Internet users to web...
New gTLDs Are Like Derivatives on Wall Street With No Value, Says Esther Dyson 20 Aug 2013 | 12:22 am
In a story ran by the New York Times over the weekend, the viability of introducing hundreds of new top-level domains in the market has been criticized by individuals including Esther Dyson, a technol...
