Will Russia Get Blamed for Friday’s DNS Attack?
By Kurt Nimmo A denial of service attack has knocked out Twitter, Netflix, and other large corporate websites. Wait for it. Russia will probably be…
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Someone is Literally Trying to Take Down the Internet Right Now
By Carey Wedler On Friday morning, a large-scale hack of an Internet domain hosting provider took prominent websites including Netflix, Amazon, Reddit, Twitter, and Vox…
The Internet Was Just Taken Over by a Global Monopoly, And No One Even Noticed
By Claire Bernish On Saturday, the United States ceded oversight of one of the Internet’s most basic and fundamental functions — the so-called “root zone,”…
Facebook, Internet.org, and the End of Net Neutrality
By Tony Cartalucci American-based aerospace company SpaceX is one of the few Western enterprises pursuing a greater purpose in a nation otherwise obsessed with power…
Orwellian: Feds Spend $500,000 to Tap “Extensive Tracking Infrastructure” to “Combat Online Trolling”
By Melissa Dykes The National Science Foundation has issued two quarter-of-a-million-dollar grants for “Leveraging Personalized Internet Services to Combat Online Trolling.” The grant defines online trolling…
Watchdog: Secret Board Resolution Paved Way In ICANN Internet Globalization Agenda
By Daniel Taylor Corwin: ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade passed secret resolutions, used NSA spy leaks as “false premise” to strip control from U.S. Philip Corwin, Founding…
America’s Biggest Ally Now Has Special “Thought Police” Unit to Track Down Online Trolls
By Claire Bernish Thought police now patrol social media platforms and online forums to quash putatively ‘abusive’ vitriol with the help of feckless civilians urged…
Drug Sales On The Dark Web Have Tripled Since The Feds Shut Down Silk Road
By John Vibes This week, it was reported that drug sales on the dark web have tripled since the infamous Silk Road was shut down…
These Towns Gave Up on Corps and Just Built Their Own High-Speed Internet
By James Holbrooks Over two dozen rural towns in southern Minnesota, fed up with waiting for corporate high-speed Internet to reach them, have taken it…
If Two Countries Waged Cyber War On Each Other, Here’s What To Expect
By Bill Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University Imagine you woke up to discover a massive cyber attack on your country. All government data has been destroyed,…
Department of Justice Recruits Social Media Firms to Fight “Online Radicalization”
By Derrick Broze For the third time since December 2015, the Obama administration has met with social media companies to discuss fighting the spread of…
UK Spying Laws Give Government Access to Your Entire Internet History
By Michaela Whitton Two years after Edward Snowden’s revelations, which included details about the U.K. government’s own blanket surveillance operations, authorities are champing at the bit…
Feds Pouring Money Into a Project to Create a Database to Track “Suspicious” Internet Memes
By John Vibes The federal government spent $1 million to create an online database that will collect “suspicious” memes and track “misinformation.” The project, which…
The Internet of Things: How House Appliances Fit In Nicely
By Catherine J. Frompovich Personally, I must confess that I’ve been called a “Luddite” more times than I can remember because of my bald-faced ability…