YouTube and Google Play have announced the suspension of payment-based services in Russia, including subscriptions, as sanctions begin to pose banking challenges in the country. YouTube channels in Russia will still be able to gar...
The former head of ICANN, two EU parliamentarians, and technical, security, and legal experts plan to publish an open letter to the internet governance community arguing for multistakeholder imposition of internet sanctions. ...
Russian space agency Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin stated that launching new orbital satellite groups will make it possible to create an independent, 'unkillable' satellite internet in Russia, TASS reported. Rogozin further noted: ...
A broad coalition of civil society groups urged the USA and its international partners to ensure that the people of Russia and Belarus are not cut off from the internet. In a letter to the White House, civil society groups contend...
RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) -the regional Internet registry for Europe -responded to the request made by the Ukrainian government that the organisation withdraw the right to use IPv4 and IPv6 addresses by all Russi...
Russia has created its own Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate authority (CA) to help bypass website access issues caused by the sanctions. To provide context a TLS certificate allows a web browser to confirm that a domain ...
The GSMA Inclusive Tech Lab revealed the result of a survey with nearly 100 third-party service providers across 12 industry verticals, which included the humanitarian sector, to understand the challenges of integrating with Mobil...
According to a report by Cisco Talos, threat actors are distributing malware to volunteers in the Ukrainian IT army by promoting a false distributed denial of service DDoS tool on Telegram. The threat actors are mimicking a DDoS t...
The Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) has published its Final Draft report after three days of discussions, as well as the Chair's Summary. The final exchange and adoption of the Final Draft is planned for Friday, 12th March. The re...
A survey conducted by Digimune, a digital identity, privacy and social media protection company, reveals that online child abuse in the form of cyberbullying, cyber stalking and online shaming is on the rise in South Africa....
The South Africa High Court has suspended the sale and issuance of spectrum licences for ultra fast broadband. Consequently, the country's Independent Communications Authority (ICASA) has been ordered to halt the process of spectr...
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has released a statement on the agreed negotiation mandate adopted by the Council on the protection of privacy and confidentiality in the use of electronic communication services ('the Cou...