A new EU law, created earlier this year, requires public network providers to ensure “network neutrality” – roughly, that every packet be treated alike unless there are legitimate reasons not to. The Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications (BEREC) has now published draft guidelines on how this will be implemented, in particular the circumstances […]
Tag: DDoS
Posts relating to Distributed Denial of Service attacks. These stop computers or networks from operating correctly by swamping them with traffic. Note that DDoS is NOT considered a kind of “hacking”
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Network Neutrality and Network Security
There’s a tension between network neutrality – essentially the principle that a network should be a dumb pipe that treats every packet alike – and network security, which may require some packets to be dropped to protect either the network or its users. Some current attacks simply can’t be dealt with by devices at the […]
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Detecting DNS configuration errors
The Domain Name Service (DNS) which translates names to IP addresses (among many other things) is critical for humans using the Internet. Research by Slavko Gajin and Petar Bojovic presented at the TERENA Networking Conference indicates that mis-configurations are more common than we might hope. Getting DNS right often requires different organisations to have matching […]
This is JANET(UK)’s response to the All Party Internet Group’s enquiry into the Computer Misuse Act 1990. JANET(UK) is the not-for-profit company that runs JANET, the UK’s education and research network, connecting universities, colleges and research establishments in the UK to each other and to the public Internet. JANET also provides inter-connection between schools networks […]