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Abdallah Alsalmi retweeted
QUAD9'S FRANCE EXIT RAISES CONCERNS OVER DNS BLOCKING
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Quad9 plans to withdraw from France following a DNS blocking ruling. The dispute raises broader questions about balancing copyright enforcement with cybersecurity, privacy and the legitimate functions of Internet infrastructure.
by Christian Dawson
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Abdallah Alsalmi retweeted
Google and Meta subsea cables among most at risk from sabotage in Pacific arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026…
Starting November 24, Quad9 will no longer be able to offer its free cyberprotection service to users located in France.
quad9.net/news/blog/au-revoi…
Abdallah Alsalmi retweeted
The Sudanese government has moved to muzzle out dissent, threatening freedom of expression and journalists. Article 51 of the Sudanese penal code of 1991 'waging war against the state', a crime punishable by death, has been amended to include "electronic and media publishing" .
Abdallah Alsalmi retweeted
A blackout hit occupied Crimea overnight after a reported strike on a Russian substation that supplies it.
Within 20 minutes, Internet addresses answering IPinfo’s pings fell to 15% of normal. About half were back by Saturday afternoon.
Routes stayed up, so it was a power cut.
⚡️️️️️️️Mass blackouts reported across occupied Crimea.
According to satellite imagery from NASA FIRMS, the Taman substation in Russia's Krasnodar Krai — a key energy node supplying electricity to Crimea —was damaged in an overnight attack.
kyivindependent.com/mass-bla…
Amid Starlink crisis, Finnish tech giants announce plan to help Ukraine build its own sovereign satellite system
kyivindependent.com/amid-sta…
Attackers Hijacked Over 300 Tor Exit Relays to Intercept SSH Connections thehackernews.com/2026/10/at… via @TheHackersNews
Abdallah Alsalmi retweeted
Nearly all North Korean websites have been inaccessible for the past day as the country experiences severe Internet disruptions.
175.45.176.0/24 contains the name servers for .kp and has been down repeatedly in the past 24hrs. @nknewsorg
nknews.org/pro/nearly-all-no…
Abdallah Alsalmi retweeted
private keys from 8 intermediate CA certs have been compromised (eMudhra)
Happy "Update everything" day to all my pager-carrying friends
emudhra.we-have-a-problem.co…
Abdallah Alsalmi retweeted
The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs arstechnica.com/security/202…
Abdallah Alsalmi retweeted
Internet infrastructure keeps getting targeted on both sides of this war. Overnight, a strike hit a data center in Russian-occupied Donetsk.
Traffic via AS41039 collapsed at 22:00 UTC and stayed down for more than six hours before service returned.
kyivindependent.com/data-cen…
JAPAN’s NHK suspends its emergency broadcasts to the Middle East
These Japanese-language emergency broadcasts were launched in response to the escalating situation in the Middle East and the blocking of the internet in Iran.
NHK stated that this decision was prompted by the restoration of international internet access in Iran, as well as the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs' lowering of the alert level for several countries in the Middle East.
From its Yamata transmission station in Japan, NHK had been broadcasting an additional 3 hours and 50 minutes of content daily to the Middle East. This increased volume was straining the capacity of the Yamata transmission facility.
Regular broadcasts to the Middle East continue as before.
Abdallah Alsalmi retweeted
🛠️ Announced maintenance by Syrian Telecom (AS29256) disrupted #Internet traffic in #Syria. Traffic from the country dropped by as much as 48% around 21:15 UTC on Oct 19.
More details on Cloudflare Radar: radar.cloudflare.com/traffic…
DeepSeek barred from US government agency IT systems
politico.com/news/2026/10/19…
Abdallah Alsalmi retweeted
🚨 Following drone strikes over the weekend, Russia's VKontakte (AS47541) traffic remains reduced by about 46%, as measured by total bytes transferred remains, relative to the previous week.
📉 Follow along on Radar: radar.cloudflare.com/traffic…
Abdallah Alsalmi retweeted
ICANN87 IN BALI PUTS DNS ABUSE AND NEW GTLD IMPLEMENTATION IN FOCUS
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ICANN's Bali meeting examines DNS abuse mitigation, registrant protections and the next gTLD round. Discussions could shape future requirements for domain registries and registrars.
Learn more:
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Abdallah Alsalmi retweeted
VK (Russia’s social media platform) says drones attacked its data center in Leningrad Oblast overnight on October 17–18, and that its services remain available.
In @ipinfo’s pings, about a third of the addresses on VK’s St Petersburg network that normally answer stopped answering from 04:00 Moscow time, and had not come back by 10:00.
A ping reply shows a server is on and reachable. VK's other main network didn’t change.
Abdallah Alsalmi retweeted
To any Lantern users in Iran having issues right now, please upgrade to the latest beta that can recover more quickly:
s3.amazonaws.com/lantern.io/…
With more at:
github.com/getlantern/lanter…
India: Home Ministry on internet shutdowns: ‘Unconditional apology’ was a formality; no contempt of court
medianama.com/2026/10/223-ho…
