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Monthly Archives: July 2014
Snowden Urges Cloud Providers to Adopt Zero Knowledge System to Protect Customers from NSA
Edward Snowden doesn’t believe that his disclosures about the NSA will mean the end of cloud computing. In a lengthy interview with the Guardian’s editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger and reporter Ewen MacAskill, Snowden said that cloud providers will have to adopt a zero knowledge system in order to keep customers safe from government surveillance. Continue reading
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Tagged cloud-providers, disclosures, guardian, hosting, nsa, rusbridger, saas, vodahost, web hosting, will-mean
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Neocities Hosts and Defends Site that Exposes German Internet Censorship
Neocities, a free web hosting service, is hosting a site that has exposed a secret list of blocked websites kept by a German government agency, and used to make these sites inaccessible in Germany. Continue reading
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Tagged europe, free-web, german, hosting-service, regions, vodahost, web hosting
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Large Volume DDoS Attacks See Exceptional Growth in First Half of 2014: Arbor Networks
Large volume DDoS attacks increased by almost 350 percent from 2013 to the first half of 2014, according to Arbor Networks’ DDoS Attack Trends Q2 2014 report. While average attack size and NTP use decreased compared to Q1, attack duration increased, and Arbor emphasizes that volume was the main theme in DDoS attacks for the first half of the year. Continue reading
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Tagged almost-350, arbor, arbor-networks, attack, average-attack, ntp, the-first, the-main, use-decreased, year
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UK Passes Emergency Legislation Giving Law Enforcement Access to Phone and Internet Records
The United Kingdom Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill (DRIP) passed through the House of Lords on Thursday after two days of debate, according to a report by the BBC. The bill was fast-tracked by the government. The parliament stated, “The Government argues that emergency legislation is needed to ensure that… Continue reading
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Tagged after-two, europe, government, investigatory, lords-on-thursday, powers-bill, regions, retention, vodahost
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NIST Wants Cloud Providers to Adopt Protocols to Aid Forensic Investigators
Cloud providers may soon be asked to adopt protocols to help law enforcement meet the challenges of collecting and analyzing data in the cloud. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued a draft report in June titled “NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Science Challenges,” which identifies 65 challenges posed by cloud computing to forensic examiners. Continue reading
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Tagged adopt-protocols, analyzing-data, cloud, cloud-computing, draft-report, hosting, national, nist, standards, technology
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