Google published three articles yesterday, to do with privacy and cyber security, showing how one of the world’s biggest corporations, that primarily depends on processing and using your online information for profit, is going to take steps to protect you. The first promotes the feature, in Google search, where you …
A plus for child protection on the internet
Sites reported record 29.3m child abuse images in 2021 | Internet | The Guardian The large number is not so much a concern but a positive move forward in the improvements in detection and enforcement by the various online platforms – 35% more images detected and removed, this 35% represents …
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Israeli government websites disrupted
I have written recently about the increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks – here is a real world example of the effectiveness of these new massive attacks: Israeli govt sites hit by huge DDoS attack • The Register
What do we use the internet for? Obviously for dressing our dogs correctly!
Here is something frivolous to read on a Sunday morning whilst the BBC bombard you with political talking heads who cannot help contradicting themselves sentence after sentence. Stuart Heritage at The Gaudian has worked out what we use the internet for – and it is not pornography or cats (that …
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TLS certificates are what internet trust is built on
Russia has created it’s own TLS certificate organisation and has started issuing these security and trust certificates to Russian sites, who can no longer access issuing authorities outside of the country, because of sanctions. Moscow to issue TLS certificates to Russian websites • The Register
