Yahoo! breaks its silence on MDA licensing scheme
By S Ramesh
POSTED: 05 Jun 2013 7:32 PM
Yahoo! has broken its silence on the new licensing rules for online news sites in Singapore, which kicked in on June 1. The response came in a posting on its webpage by Alan Soon, Yahoo!'s country manager for Singapore and managing editor for Southeast Asia.
SINGAPORE: Yahoo! has broken its silence on the new licensing rules for online news sites in Singapore, which kicked in on June 1.
The response came in a posting on its webpage by Alan Soon, Yahoo!'s country manager for Singapore and managing editor for Southeast Asia.
Yahoo! noted that prior to the new licensing framework it was already bound to comply with the Media Development Authority's Internet Code of Practice.
Mr Soon said this key guideline complements Yahoo!'s own internal editorial policies around what is suitable for its readers, and that further regulation is redundant.
Yahoo! noted that the new framework has caused confusion and unsettled both users as well as the media industry.
However, Yahoo! also said the new licensing rules will help pave the way for full accreditation and access for its reporters.
It believed this will help strengthen its editorial reporting.
Yahoo! said as a network, it serves one million unique users in Singapore each day.
Unlike reporters from mainstream media, Yahoo! reporters are not accredited with the Ministry of Communications and Information, and are not given access to government media conferences.
Under the new rules announced on May 28 and which came into effect on June 1, local news sites with a significant reach will require individual licensing.
10 news sites were placed on this list, including Yahoo! Singapore.
These new sites need to put up a performance bond of S$50,000, and will need to comply with any take-down notice from authorities within 24 hours.
- CNA/xq
- wong chee tat :)
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Dutchman arrested in Spain for "biggest ever" cyberattack
Dutchman arrested in Spain for "biggest ever" cyberattack
POSTED: 27 Apr 2013 6:48 PM
A Dutchman has been arrested in Spain in connection with last month's unprecedented cyber-attack that reportedly slowed down the Internet, the Dutch prosecution service said.
THE HAGUE: A Dutchman has been arrested in Spain in connection with last month's unprecedented cyber-attack that reportedly slowed down the Internet, the Dutch prosecution service said.
The 35-year-old, identified only as S K, was arrested in Barcelona and the house where he was staying searched by Spanish police, said a statement.
"He is suspected of involvement in the attack and so the prosecution service asked for his arrest," spokesman Wim de Bruin told AFP on Saturday.
Last month's attack targeted Spamhaus, a Geneva-based volunteer group that publishes spam blacklists used by networks to filter out unwanted email, and led to cyberspace congestion.
Spamhaus blamed the attack on Dutch web-hosting service Cyberbunker.
A source close to the investigation said that suspect S K was Sven Olaf Kamphuis, who acted as a spokesman for Cyberbunker at the time of the attack.
Kamphuis describes himself on his Facebook page as Minister of Telecommunications and Foreign Affairs for the Cyberbunker Republic.
De Bruin declined to speculate on whether further arrests would be made.
Computers, storage devices and mobile phones were seized during the Barcelona raid.
"S K is suspected of an unprecedented attack on non-profit organisation Spamhaus," the statement said.
"So-called DDoS attacks were last month also carried out on Spamhaus partners in the US, the Netherlands and the UK," it said.
Distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) essentially bombard sites with traffic in order to disrupt.
Last month's attack was described as the most powerful ever seen and slowed web traffic.
S K is expected to be handed over to the Dutch authorities soon, the prosecution service said.
The attacks began, according to Spamhaus, after it placed Cyberbunker, a web hosting firm that "offers anonymous hosting of anything except child porn and anything related to terrorism", on its blacklist.
Cyberbunker said it had been unfairly labelled as a haven for cybercrime and spam.
Spamhaus, which also has offices in London, essentially patrols the Internet to root out spammers and provides updated lists of likely perpetrators to network operators around the world.
Experts said the attacks flooded Spamhaus servers with 300 billion bits per second (300 gigabytes) of data.
Prior DDoS attacks have been measured at 50 gigabytes per second.
Because of the way Internet traffic flows, these DDoS attacks created congestion and ripple effects around the web.
- AFP/xq
- wong chee tat :)
POSTED: 27 Apr 2013 6:48 PM
A Dutchman has been arrested in Spain in connection with last month's unprecedented cyber-attack that reportedly slowed down the Internet, the Dutch prosecution service said.
THE HAGUE: A Dutchman has been arrested in Spain in connection with last month's unprecedented cyber-attack that reportedly slowed down the Internet, the Dutch prosecution service said.
The 35-year-old, identified only as S K, was arrested in Barcelona and the house where he was staying searched by Spanish police, said a statement.
"He is suspected of involvement in the attack and so the prosecution service asked for his arrest," spokesman Wim de Bruin told AFP on Saturday.
Last month's attack targeted Spamhaus, a Geneva-based volunteer group that publishes spam blacklists used by networks to filter out unwanted email, and led to cyberspace congestion.
Spamhaus blamed the attack on Dutch web-hosting service Cyberbunker.
A source close to the investigation said that suspect S K was Sven Olaf Kamphuis, who acted as a spokesman for Cyberbunker at the time of the attack.
Kamphuis describes himself on his Facebook page as Minister of Telecommunications and Foreign Affairs for the Cyberbunker Republic.
De Bruin declined to speculate on whether further arrests would be made.
Computers, storage devices and mobile phones were seized during the Barcelona raid.
"S K is suspected of an unprecedented attack on non-profit organisation Spamhaus," the statement said.
"So-called DDoS attacks were last month also carried out on Spamhaus partners in the US, the Netherlands and the UK," it said.
Distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) essentially bombard sites with traffic in order to disrupt.
Last month's attack was described as the most powerful ever seen and slowed web traffic.
S K is expected to be handed over to the Dutch authorities soon, the prosecution service said.
The attacks began, according to Spamhaus, after it placed Cyberbunker, a web hosting firm that "offers anonymous hosting of anything except child porn and anything related to terrorism", on its blacklist.
Cyberbunker said it had been unfairly labelled as a haven for cybercrime and spam.
Spamhaus, which also has offices in London, essentially patrols the Internet to root out spammers and provides updated lists of likely perpetrators to network operators around the world.
Experts said the attacks flooded Spamhaus servers with 300 billion bits per second (300 gigabytes) of data.
Prior DDoS attacks have been measured at 50 gigabytes per second.
Because of the way Internet traffic flows, these DDoS attacks created congestion and ripple effects around the web.
- AFP/xq
- wong chee tat :)
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Sandy deals a blow to popular US websites
Sandy deals a blow to popular US websites
Posted: 30 October 2012 2327 hrs
WASHINGTON: The Huffington Post and other popular US websites struggled to get back on their feet on Tuesday after superstorm Sandy knocked them out of cyberspace.
On its homepage, the Huffington Post blamed power outages triggered by Monday's storm for "technical difficulties" as it offered readers minimalist post-storm updates with no photos or links to other parts of its vast site.
"We are working around the clock to get the site back to normal," it said in a boldface editor's note.
The hip Manhattan-centric website Gawker and stablemates such as Jezebel and Gizmodo were also out of action overnight, although Gawker managed to restore minimal service using an old-school live blog format.
Buzzfeed invited its visitors on Tuesday to proceed to the website's Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook accounts for fresh content, in the absence of homepage updates since Monday.
On its Tumblr account, Buzzfeed said it was told by DataGram -- an Internet service provider that also serves the Huffington Post and Gawker -- that it had sustained serious flooding during the storm.
- AFP/xq
- wong chee tat :)
Posted: 30 October 2012 2327 hrs
WASHINGTON: The Huffington Post and other popular US websites struggled to get back on their feet on Tuesday after superstorm Sandy knocked them out of cyberspace.
On its homepage, the Huffington Post blamed power outages triggered by Monday's storm for "technical difficulties" as it offered readers minimalist post-storm updates with no photos or links to other parts of its vast site.
"We are working around the clock to get the site back to normal," it said in a boldface editor's note.
The hip Manhattan-centric website Gawker and stablemates such as Jezebel and Gizmodo were also out of action overnight, although Gawker managed to restore minimal service using an old-school live blog format.
Buzzfeed invited its visitors on Tuesday to proceed to the website's Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook accounts for fresh content, in the absence of homepage updates since Monday.
On its Tumblr account, Buzzfeed said it was told by DataGram -- an Internet service provider that also serves the Huffington Post and Gawker -- that it had sustained serious flooding during the storm.
- AFP/xq
- wong chee tat :)
Friday, January 2, 2009
SingNet service disrupted
Jan 2, 2009
SingNet service disrupted
By Serene Luo
Though SingTel did not give more details on the reason for the disruption, one user from technology forum Hardwarezone said he was told a circuit server had gone down. -- ST PHOTO: ALBERT SIM
MANY users at home and in the office were left without Internet access for about an hour on Friday as SingTel's fixed line broadband service went down.
Customers reported that their Internet outage had started as early as 12.25pm, with the problem reaching many corners islandwide.
The problem has since been 'resolved', a SingTel spokesman said at 4.15pm on Friday.
There was 'intermittent disruption for less than an hour', she said.
'We would like to apologise to affected customers for the inconvenience caused.'
Though SingTel did not give more details on the reason for the disruption, one user from technology forum Hardwarezone said he was told a circuit server had gone down.
Another affected user, Mr G. Ganesh, 24, who owns his own web design and video conversion business, told The Straits Times that a SingTel customer service officer had told him the outage might have been caused by lightning or thunder.
'Luckily the outage was during lunchtime, and so my business was not really affected,' he said.
Another affected user, who declined to be named, said he kept getting an engaged tone when calling SingTel for help.
He had this suggestion for future disruptions: 'They could at least put up a voice recording message on their hotline, telling us that the connection is down, instead of letting us just hear an engaged tone.'
- wong chee tat :)
SingNet service disrupted
By Serene Luo
Though SingTel did not give more details on the reason for the disruption, one user from technology forum Hardwarezone said he was told a circuit server had gone down. -- ST PHOTO: ALBERT SIM
MANY users at home and in the office were left without Internet access for about an hour on Friday as SingTel's fixed line broadband service went down.
Customers reported that their Internet outage had started as early as 12.25pm, with the problem reaching many corners islandwide.
The problem has since been 'resolved', a SingTel spokesman said at 4.15pm on Friday.
There was 'intermittent disruption for less than an hour', she said.
'We would like to apologise to affected customers for the inconvenience caused.'
Though SingTel did not give more details on the reason for the disruption, one user from technology forum Hardwarezone said he was told a circuit server had gone down.
Another affected user, Mr G. Ganesh, 24, who owns his own web design and video conversion business, told The Straits Times that a SingTel customer service officer had told him the outage might have been caused by lightning or thunder.
'Luckily the outage was during lunchtime, and so my business was not really affected,' he said.
Another affected user, who declined to be named, said he kept getting an engaged tone when calling SingTel for help.
He had this suggestion for future disruptions: 'They could at least put up a voice recording message on their hotline, telling us that the connection is down, instead of letting us just hear an engaged tone.'
- wong chee tat :)
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