Ukraine arrests rogue VPN operator providing access to Runet

Ukraine’s cyber police have arrested a 28-year-old man who operated a massive virtual private network (VPN) service, allowing people from within the country to access the Russian internet (Runet). Runet is the portion of the internet that includes Russian sites on the “.ru” and “.su” top-level domains, including government sites, social media platforms, search engines, and […]

Mozilla accused of tracking users in Firefox without consent

European digital rights group NOYB (None Of Your Business) has filed a privacy complaint with the Austrian data protection watchdog (DSB) against Mozilla, alleging the company uses a Firefox privacy feature (enabled without consent) to track users’ online behavior. The feature, called “Privacy-Preserving Attribution” (PPA) and jointly developed with Meta (formerly Facebook), was announced in […]

Meta halts routing via Deutsche Telekom over €20M peering fee

Meta announced that it’s ending its direct peering relationship with Deutsche Telekom following a court’s ruling earlier this year that would oblige the tech firm to pay the telecom €20,000,000 to continue using its network. Instead, Meta will now re-route traffic from its platforms and services (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp)  through third-party providers instead of directly […]

Cloudflare outage cuts off access to websites in some regions

A rolling Cloudflare outage is impacting access to web sites worldwide, including BleepingComputer, with sites working in some regions and not others. While Cloudflare says they are currently conducting scheduled maintenance in Sinagpore and Nashville, its status page does not indicate any problems. However, for many users worldwide, when attempting to access websites utilizing Cloudflare, […]