DNS tampering
ONI Blog: Update on threats to freedom of expression online in Vietnam
Information openness has come under further threat in Vietnam, as the ongoing suppression of critical voices within the country may be strengthened through recently proposed regulations regarding use of the Internet. The new regulations seek to further criminalize and ban controversial web...
- Posted on 10/Sep/2012; tagged in Vietnam, Asia, Legislation, Arrests and legal action, Political filtering, Social filtering, Internet tools filtering, DNS tampering
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: August 3, 2012
Tajikistan blocked a number of news websites and YouTube on Monday following deadly clashes last week between security forces and armed rebels in an eastern autonomous region of the Central Asian republic. Among the blocked websites were the Russian...
- Posted on 03/Aug/2012; tagged in United States of America, Tajikistan, United States/Canada, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Threats to the Open Net, Intermediary Censorship, Internet tools filtering, DNS tampering
ONI Blog: Russian Websites Come Under DDoS Attack on Election Day
Several Russian websites came under DDoS attack during the country's national elections beginning last week. On December 1, a few political websites were taken down, and in the days following, prominent news portals including NewTimes.ru and the Russian News Service were...
ONI Blog: DNS Tampering and the new ICANN gTLD Rules
On Monday, ICANN announced that it had approved new rules for determining generic top level domains (gTLDs) like .music, .food and .nyc. Under the new gTLD rules, suffixes can be named after products, services, or almost anything else,...
- Posted on 23/Jun/2011; tagged in Legislation, DNS tampering
ONI Blog: In Germany, a new treaty on gambling might open the door to Internet filtering
An inter-state treaty that will overhaul Germany’s gambling regulation could prove a threat to the open net. Should a recent draft be adopted, ISPs would be obliged to prevent users from accessing unauthorized gambling websites, which critics fear will mean the establishment...
ONI Blog: Tunisian Government Websites Attacked Via DDoS
The repercussions of Tunisia’s strict online censorship reached an apex in the Arab country this week as multiple DDoS attacks continue to target the government. Hackers known collectively as the Anonymous group took down at least eight government websites beginning...
- Posted on 05/Jan/2011; tagged in Tunisia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Take-down, Anonymity, Political filtering, Conflict and security filtering, DNS tampering
ONI Blog: McAfee Ranks the World’s Most Dangerous Domains
Internet virus protection producer and security company McAfee recently released their “Mapping the Mal Web” report for 2010. In their calculation of dangerous websites, McAfee took into account characteristics such as whether the site uses spyware pop-ups, whether it installs...
- Posted on 26/Oct/2010; tagged in Cybercrime and security, DNS tampering
ONI Blog: Sex-Positive vb.ly Taken Down by Libyan Domain Provider
URL shortening website vb.ly has been disabled by Libyan authorities after domain registry NIC.ly (also known as Lybia Spider) ruled that it had violated its terms and conditions. Headed by Ben Metcalfe and Violet Blue since August 2009,...
- Posted on 10/Oct/2010; tagged in Libya, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Obscenity, Take-down, Data retention, Internet tools filtering, DNS tampering
ONI Blog: ONI Releases 2009 Year in Review: Filtering, Surveillance, Information Warfare
The OpenNet Initiative is proud to release its 2009 Year in Review, a look into instances of filtering, surveillance, and information warfare around the world in 2009.
The events of 2009 demonstrated a global rise in third-generation Internet controls. ...
- Posted on 03/Feb/2010; tagged in United States/Canada, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia/New Zealand, Legislation, Non-filtering content restrictions, Obscenity, Search result removal, Human rights, Cybercrime and security, Publications, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Conflict and security filtering, Internet tools filtering, Voluntary filtering, Reverse filtering, Overblocking, DNS tampering, IP blocking, Proxy blocking, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: Germany Passes Legislation to Block Child Pornography
First it was the UK, then Australia: Over the past year, ONI has witnessed consideration of filtering schemes by several Western countries, as well as the leaking of "secret block lists" for a few others (such as Norway and...
