The London Internet Exchange (LINX) continue to go the extra mile for their community as they connect one of their member networks to the Telehouse Cloud Link platform, hosted by...
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The London Internet Exchange (LINX) welcomed new member network NaWas to their community and peering LAN in London this month. The Dutch born not-for-profit network have been specialising in DDoS...
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The London Internet Exchange (LINX) have recruited Pieter Knook as non-executive Chairperson for its Board of Directors. Pieter Knook has a very long and successful career at Microsoft and has...
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LINX CEO Emeritus, John Souter as he took the stage during the LINX107 member conference to present on the history of LINX. The London Internet Exchange, known as LINX, celebrated...
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LINX CEO Kurtis Lindqvist and CFO Malcolm Holt at the LINX107 member conference at the Park Plaza Victoria in London. LINX, the London Internet Exchange, have committed to reducing the...
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The London Internet Exchange (LINX) are pleased to announce they will be launching a 4th site at their regional Internet exchange in Manchester. Launched in 2012, LINX Manchester has gone...
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LINX Go LIVE with New Universal IX API Following the announcement, presentation and live demonstration during the key networking event EPF14 last week in Tallinn, the London Internet Exchange (LINX)...
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Global Internet Exchange Leaders Develop Universal API Today at EPF (European Peering Forum) taking place in Tallinn, Estonia, it was announced that the world’s leading Internet Exchange operators AMS-IX (Amsterdam),...
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The London Internet Exchange (LINX) are actively recruiting a replacement non-executive Chairperson for its Board of Directors. LINX is the largest, solely member-run Internet exchange in the World, with over...
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Due to increased member and capacity demands, the London Internet Exchange are pleased to announce considerable port upgrades to their VIRTUS Data Centre peering location. VIRTUS’ LONDON2 facility in...
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The London Internet Exchange (LINX) announced today that their long-standing CEO, John Souter, has announced his intention to retire at the end of 2019. John has served as LINX CEO...
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The London Internet Exchange (LINX) and the Japan Internet Exchange (JPIX) recently entered into a new partnership agreement, a collaboration which stems from the knowledge that an increasing number of...
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The UK government has today published its much anticipated policy paper "Online Harms". This proposes a regulator for Internet content (whether a new regulator, or repurposing an existing one), to...
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Our regional Internet exchange in Northern Virginia, LINX NoVA is celebrating it's 5th birthday this week! Until LINX NoVA launched in 2014, the Ashburn metro area, one of the largest...
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Saudi Telecom Company (STC) and the London Internet Exchange (LINX) have announced that Limelight has provided a Letter of Intent (loi) that they will take the first 100GE port at...
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Subsea Cables have been growing at an astounding rate of 40% CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate). Last couple of years have seen a major resurgence in the subsea projects globally....
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The European parliament has voted in favour of controversial proposals to reform online copyright. The two most controversial articles in the proposed copyright directive, article 11 and article 13, had...
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Today the London Internet Exchange announced that it has joined the MANRS IXP Programme and will be supporting the MANRS initiative. MANRS (Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security) was created...
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The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has published a targeted consultation to seek views on how the Government intends to implement the Network and Information Systems (NIS)...
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The Malaysian government has brought forward a bill in Parliament that sets the penalty for publishing so-called "fake news" online with up to ten years in jail plus a fine...
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The Council of Europe has published a Recommendation to Member States on the roles and responsibilities of Internet intermediaries. The Recommendation declares that access to the Internet is a precondition...
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ICANN has announced that it will not delegate new top-level domains .home, mail and .corp, effectively turning these domains into reserved strings. The move acts to protect organisations that already...
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The UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has published its response to the replies it received to last year's public consultation on implementation of the Network Information Security...
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The Austrian Supreme Court has asked the European Court of Justice to rule on whether Facebook should actively search for hate speech posted by users. The original lawsuit against Facebook...
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The UK government has announced that it will set up a new unit to counter “fake news” and disinformation. The government said that the “dedicated national security communications unit”, which...
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The UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has launched a new campaign to teach children about online copyright infringement. In a bid to make intellectual property “fun”, the IPO has produced...
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The UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has published a Green Paper with plans to bolster government powers to intervene in corporate mergers and takeovers involving high-tech...
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The UK Government has announced proposals for a voluntary levy on Internet companies “to raise awareness and counter internet harms”. The government has said that the levy would target issues such as...
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Home Secretary Amber Rudd focussed on Internet policy issues in her speech to the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. The Home Secretary reiterated her demands for Internet platforms to do...
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Two websites have been discovered to be using their users’ computers and phones to mine cryptocurrency without their consent in a bid to compensate for the continuing collapse in online...
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The UK prime minister, Theresa May, has told internet companies that they need to go “further and faster” in removing extremist content in a speech to the United Nations general...
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The Electoral Commission has suggested social media trolls who abuse politicians should lose their right to vote, in a submission to the Committee on Standards in Public Life. A voting...
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A cyber attack has recently impacted the Scottish Parliament. MSPs and their staff have been warned that they will be unlikely to be able to access their email accounts due...
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Yesterday, Cloudflare ceased to provide caching and DDoS protection services for a far-right blog, the Daily Stormer, following claims by the latter that Cloudflare secretly support their ideology. Cloudflare's CEO has...
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The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan announced plans to help improve connectivity across London. One plan involves the creation of a “Not-Spot team” that will specifically target areas in London...
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The UK Government has launched a consultation on its plans to implement the Security of Network and Information Systems Directive (“NIS Directive”). The NIS Directive was adopted by the European...
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The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has recently published a statement of intent regarding the new Data Protection Bill which will implement the General Data Protection Regulation...
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A phishing scam has recently affected Newcastle University, potentially duping many prospective students out of their money. The scam orientates around a mysterious individual or group of people operating under...
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A study led by Dr. Andrew Przybylski of the University of Oxford found that cyberbullying – bullying that takes place over the internet – is not as prevalent as feared....
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Both Russia and China are in the process of banning virtual private networks (VPNs), a tool that creates a secure, encrypted connection between a computer and a server operated by...
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The Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) has recently announced at the 19th Annual UK Internet Industry Awards – colloquially dubbed the “ISPAs” – the Internet Hero Award went to Marcus...
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Baroness Howe has tabled a private member's bill seeking to broaden the definition of what is classified as extreme pornography. Baroness Howe, a crossbencher and life peer in the House...
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A large number of internet giants – including Facebook, Google, AirBnB and others – are preparing for a “Day of Protest” on Wednesday 12th July over a ruling by the...
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The former head of GCHQ, Robert Hannigan, has expressed criticism over the Government’s stance on encryption technology. Hannigan described encryption as an “overwhelmingly good thing” and criticised plans by Home...
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The National Audit Organisation (NAO) has expressed concerns over the response by organisations and the Government to cyber crime such as online fraud and said it was difficult to see...
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Leading barrister condemns proposals by May to fine internet companies for not doing enough to remove terrorist content from platforms. Max Hill QC, the terrorism legislation watchdog whose entire career...
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The messaging app widely used in Russia has been threatened with closure if it does not comply with requests from Russian authorities. The Russian communications regulator Roskomnadzor has threatened to...
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Both Houses of Parliament – the House of Commons and the House of Lords – have been hit by a “sustained and determined” cyber attack. So say cyber experts upon...
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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is to hold a conference from October 17 to October 19 in Geneva, Switzerland on the issue of establishing standards for distributed ledger technologies. The conference,…
Figures released by Ofqual show that the number of year 11 students in the UK taking a GCSE in either computer science or information technology (IT) has fallen despite the...
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Leaked documents from activist group Wikileaks and as reported by the Daily Mail has shown that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has hacked a number of routers and has converted...
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Following the recent terror attacks in London which has thus far killed seven and has left 48 injured, Prime Minister Theresa May has called on internet companies to tackle terrorist...
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Transport for London (TfL) are due to hear bids from a number of telecommunications companies to provide 4G on the London Underground. It is believed that likely bidders include telecommunications...
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A Swiss court has convicted a man for his ‘likes’ on Facebook. The 45-year-old unnamed defendant was told by the court in Zurich that because he had a ‘liked’ a...
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An appeals court in Berlin has recently ruled that a mother cannot gain access to her daughter’s Facebook account. Following the girl being killed by a train in 2012, the...
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The EU has announced it will spend €120 million to extend Wifi across 6,000 to 8,000 municipalities, bringing Wifi to “every European village and every city” with free Wifi by...
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Ex-GCHQ deputy director demands fines on social media firms that fail to remove “extremist” material
Brian Lord, the ex deputy director of intelligence and cyber operations at GCHQ, has suggested that social media companies should be fined if they fail to remove material deemed as…
The EU is to impose national quotas on streaming services. The EU is currently considering imposing a quota on streaming services, such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, to feature a…
European Union ministers have recently approved rules that would oblige companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Google to remove videos deemed as constituting “hate speech” or face fines. The move...
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A bill that would explicitly lay out the terms under which internet service providers (ISPs) can collect and distribute information on their customers and when they can get opt-in and...
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Following the WannaCry ransomware attacks which has affected over 200,000 computers in at least 150 countries around the world, a spate of emails purporting to be from internet service providers...
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