The small dish systems, VSATs, transmit often-sensitive data from far-flung locations for critical industries. A cyber-security report found thousands with ‘their digital front doors wide open.’ Thousands of small satellite dish-based computer systems that transmit often-sensitive data from far flung locations worldwide – oil rigs, ships at sea, banks, and…
RIPE queries registration freeze related to cybercrime botnet bust
RIPE NCC, a Dutch organisation responsible for allocating IP addresses to network providers in Europe, is questioning an order by police to not allow changes to the registrations of four blocks of addresses that were used until recently by a known criminal network. The Amsterdam-based nonprofit Regional Internet Registry (RIR)…