The outcome of the Iranian elections now hangs in the balance and perhaps, also on the availability of the Internet (or at least Twitter and Facebook according to the US State Department). Based on significant Internet engineering changes over the last week, the Iranian government seems to agree… While other countries (e.g. Burma in 2007) [...]
Alerted by @infopolicy on twitter, we went investigating attacks on Charter97.org, a Belarus news site. Evidently the site’s been under attack for days now and has been in the past couple of months. As we often do when this sort of thing happens, we dig into the news. Sure enough, there’s some regional tension between [...]
I’ve been monitoring spam using ATLAS for a while now, keeping track of spamming botnets etc using a spam trap. The shutdown of 3FN by the US FTC supposedly had an effect on spam levels. We saw this last fall with the 75% drop in spam after McColo was de-peered. Are we seeing it with [...]