By Casey Tolan | [email protected] | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: June 8, 2019 at 5:06 pm | UPDATED: June 8, 2019 at 5:15 pm A malicious internet attack on San Bruno’s municipal cable company led to disruptions in internet and telephone service around the city Saturday, officials said. The outages are affecting “significant portions of the city’s network,” a recorded message on the San Bruno Municipal Cable TV company’s phone line said, and are “the result of a malicious internet protocol attack.” There’s no estimate of when service will be restored. “Every effort is underway to address the issue and protect our customers,” the message said. San Bruno is one of only a handful of West Coast cities with its own publicly owned cable network, which provides internet, television and phone service to roughly half of the households in the city of 43,000. A tech support worker at the cable company said his office had … [Read more...] about Malicious IP attack interrupts internet service in San Bruno
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Google Teams with Cuban Dictatorship to Improve Internet Service
Google has reportedly signed a deal with Cuban telecom monopoly ETECSA to improve the communist dictatorship’s Internet connectivity. Yahoo news reports that tech giant Google has signed a deal with the Cuban telecom monopoly ETECSA in an effort to improve the island’s Internet connectivity. The deal will see an improvement to the traffic exchange between Google and the ETECSA’s networks and will overall improve internet infrastructure in the communist country.Cuba has sought to improve its poor Internet connectivity in recent years. Cybercafes, Wi-Fi hotspots and mobile internet connections have become increasingly common across the country but users continue to complain of poor connectivity and high costs. The new Google and ETECSA partnership would see a direct “peer” network created between the Cuban and Google networks which would enable faster access to content hosted on Google servers for Cuban users. Google and the ETECSA said in a joint press … [Read more...] about Google Teams with Cuban Dictatorship to Improve Internet Service
College Students Push to Censor Porn on Campus Internet Service
Students at two major Catholic universities are making a push to have pornography censored from their campus internet services. According to a report from The College Fix, students at Georgetown University and the University of Notre Dame are demanding that their university administrators censor pornography on the campus internet service.Amelia Irvine, a senior at Georgetown University, says that she wants to ban pornography for all students because it can lead to addiction. Although she compares it to alcohol abuse, she is oddly not calling for a ban on alcohol consumption. “Georgetown seeks to educate its students on the harms of alcohol abuse and sexual assault, but completely ignores the addiction that can fuel sexual assault: pornography addiction,” Irvine wrote. “To correct this enormous oversight, Georgetown should install a porn filter on campus WiFi and publicize the harms of pornography. Of course, students and faculty would still be able to access … [Read more...] about College Students Push to Censor Porn on Campus Internet Service
Undersea cable incident affects internet service
The Intra Asia (IA) cable system. — Photo telepresenceoptions.comViet Nam News HÀ NỘI — The Intra Asia (IA) cable system connecting Việt Nam to Hong Kong and other parts of Asia encountered a power failure on the morning of January 10, affecting the speed of local internet connections. Internet service provider Viettel said on January 12 that the disruption had occurred at several points off the coast of Singapore. The cable is being repaired but there is no confirmation on when the IA will resume full operation. Several internet service providers said they had rerouted and transferred signals to other cable systems to minimize the impacts on users. The 6,800 km (4,225 miles) undersea cable system was officially launched in November 2009, connecting Việt Nam, Singapore, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Japan. More than 50 million people in Việt Nam, or over half of the country’s population, are online. The IA, together with the … [Read more...] about Undersea cable incident affects internet service
Garuda to provide free internet service in flights
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The flag carrier Garuda Indonesia and its subsidiary Citilink will provide free Internet service in domestic flights starting 2019. "Passengers of Garuda Indonesia and Citilink would use internet service free during domestic flights," Garuda Service Director Nicodemus Panarung Lampe said at a news conference here on Wednesday. Nicodemus said free internet service is offered in cooperation between the Garuda Indonesia Group and Mahata Aero Tekhnologi (Mahata). For that purpose Garuda Indonesia Group will install the service of GX Aviation system, the products of the Inmarsat Aviation in its aircraft. Garuda and Citilink passengers would be able to browse internet during the flights. GX Aviation is the first and only high speed global wireless connectivity service in the world sent through the network of High-Throughput Satellites (HTS). The connectivity service is fully owned and operated by Inmarsat in cooperation with Lufthansa Technik as the provider of … [Read more...] about Garuda to provide free internet service in flights