How a Chinese entrepreneur amassed 10M+ IPv4 addresses, mostly from Africa, to lease them outside Africa, leaving African ISPs struggling to expand capacity
Alexandra Wexler / Wall Street Journal : Bluesky: @bottleofstars and @lifewinning.com Bluesky: @bottleofstars : “entrepreneur” Ingrid Burrington / @lifewinning.com : www.wsj.com/business/tel... this ...
New evidence shows the Aisuru botnet, which outpaces all other IoT-based botnets, is drawing most of its firepower from hacked IoT devices hosted on US ISPs
The world's largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) … Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange and @vxdb@infosec.exchange ...
Source: India orders ISPs and app stores to block 25 streaming services, like Ullu and ALTT with millions of downloads, for allegedly promoting obscene content
India has ordered the blocking of 25 streaming services — many with millions of viewers and even paying subscribers …
Cloudflare starts blocking access to pirate sites in the UK; previously, blocking was almost entirely done by local ISPs
Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak :
ThinkBroadband: 78%+ of UK properties have access to full-fiber broadband, up from 12% in January 2020, which experts trace to Ofcom pushing competition in 2021
If that chucklefuck worked any harder for ISPs they'd have to list him as a line item on your cable bill. [embedded post] Dominik Picheta / @dom96.picheta.me : A rare thing in the UK that's actually ...
In a SCOTUS brief, the Trump administration backs Cox's argument that ISPs shouldn't have to terminate customers based on unproven copyright infringement claims
The Trump administration is backing cable company Cox in a battle that could determine whether Internet service providers are forced to disconnect users accused of piracy.
Vietnam orders ISPs to block Telegram over its failure to prevent illegal content and activities, including fraud, drug sales and suspected terrorism on the app
Vietnam authorities have instructed local telecoms and internet service providers to block the Telegram messaging app in the country …
Starlink, which entered Nigeria in January 2023, ranks second among pure-play ISPs with 65K+ Nigerian subscribers in Q3 2024 due to reliable, high-speed access
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New York's law requiring ISPs to offer $15 or $20/month broadband has inspired Vermont, Massachusetts, and California to guarantee affordable internet access
We recommend targeting these affordability laws on the largest and most profitable ISPs, not small and rapidly growing ones. Mastodon: @ax6761@freeradical.zone : don't threaten me with a good time ......
Recorded Future: Salt Typhoon breached five more telcos and ISPs, including two US telcos, and 12+ universities in December-January by exploiting Cisco routers
Despite high-profile attention and even US sanctions, the group hasn't stopped or even slowed its operation, including the breach of two more US telecoms.