Tag Archives: security and privacy

Outer-Space Hacking a Top Concern for NASA’s Cybersecurity Chief

Cybersecurity at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration extends from maintaining email systems at the agency’s Washington headquarters to guarding U.S. networks in Russia, where Americans serve on crews working with the International Space Station. Continue reading

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Melbourne IT Recovers from DDoS Attack

Melbourne IT has confirmed that an hour and a half-long service disruption suffered by its customers and its subsidiaries Netregistry and TPP Wholesale on Thursday was the result of a DDoS attack. Continue reading

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Online Companies Meet FCC in Bid to Preserve Net Neutrality Rule

Online companies met with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai and urged him not to gut the net neutrality rules that protect their traffic, a week after he met with broadband providers that have tried to kill the Obama-era regulations. Continue reading

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Yahoo’s EU Watchdog Set to Show Teeth as Privacy Probe Wraps Up

Helen Dixon, Ireland’s data protection commissioner, said a probe by her office that’s “at the point of concluding” shows that Yahoo’s European unit is at least in part to blame for the 2014 incident. Continue reading

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U.S. Crackdown on Russian Hackers Ensnares Notorious Spammer

A 10-year pursuit of a Russian man whom U.S. prosecutors called one of the world’s most notorious email spammers ended with his arrest in Spain last week. Continue reading

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