https://www.circleid.com/blogs/ CircleID en Copyright 2025, unless where otherwise noted. 2025-06-06T17:30:00+00:00 https://circleid.com/posts/icann-demands-fairness-in-afrinic-board-elections-amid-governance-concerns https://circleid.com/posts/icann-demands-fairness-in-afrinic-board-elections-amid-governance-concerns <![CDATA[The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has issued a formal call for greater transparency and procedural integrity in the ongoing board elections of the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC).]]> 2025-06-06T11:28:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts/dotzon-study-digital-city-brands-2025 https://circleid.com/posts/dotzon-study-digital-city-brands-2025 <![CDATA[We have just released the 2025 edition of the DOTZON study "Digital City Brands." Since first presenting the study in early 2017, DOTZON has now analyzed for the ninth consecutive year how cities successfully use their Digital City Brands. The Digital City Brand represents the digital aspect of a city's brand and reflects how digitally advanced a city is. The emergence of the Internet was the reason Digital City Brands were created in the first place. ]]> 2025-06-06T10:30:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts/smuggled-phone-reveals-north-korea-regime-captures-user-creens-every-five-minutes https://circleid.com/posts/smuggled-phone-reveals-north-korea-regime-captures-user-creens-every-five-minutes <![CDATA[A smartphone smuggled out of North Korea has revealed the alarming extent of digital surveillance enforced by the Kim regime. Though it resembles a modern Android device, the software within tells a darker story: every five minutes, the phone covertly captures screenshots, storing them in an inaccessible folder for later state inspection.]]> 2025-06-04T10:59:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts/americas-broadband-blind-spot-audit-reveals-millions-more-offline-than-fcc-reports https://circleid.com/posts/americas-broadband-blind-spot-audit-reveals-millions-more-offline-than-fcc-reports <![CDATA[A new audit has sharply challenged the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) broadband availability estimates, revealing that 26 million Americans lack access to fixed 100/20 Mbps internet, 6.4 million more than the FCC claims.]]> 2025-06-04T10:11:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts/i2coalition-launches-dns-at-risk-report-warns-of-rising-dns-abuse-and-censorship https://circleid.com/posts/i2coalition-launches-dns-at-risk-report-warns-of-rising-dns-abuse-and-censorship <![CDATA[The i2Coalition has unveiled a new report and website, DNS at Risk, spotlighting the growing misuse of Internet infrastructure by governments to control online content. Released on June 3rd, the initiative documents how states are increasingly deploying DNS resolvers and IP filtering—originally neutral systems—as tools of censorship and enforcement.]]> 2025-06-03T19:53:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts/censorship-by-infrastructure-how-dns-blocking-threatens-open-internet-how-you-can-document-it https://circleid.com/posts/censorship-by-infrastructure-how-dns-blocking-threatens-open-internet-how-you-can-document-it <![CDATA[What happens when governments don't just regulate content, but forcibly repurpose the very guts of the Internet's infrastructure to enforce their policies? The chilling answer, increasingly evident worldwide, is widespread, devastating collateral damage. Around the world, neutral systems like Domain Name System (DNS) resolvers and IP routing, the bedrock of our digital lives, are being weaponized as enforcement tools.]]> 2025-06-03T13:56:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts/exploring-the-dns-flipside-of-sidewinder https://circleid.com/posts/exploring-the-dns-flipside-of-sidewinder <![CDATA[The SideWinder advanced persistent threat (APT) group, active since 2012 and known for targeting government, military, and business entities throughout Asia, primarily Pakistan, China, Nepal, and Afghanistan, has struck once again. This time around, the threat actors updated their toolset and created new infrastructure to spread malware and control compromised systems.]]> 2025-05-30T13:37:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts/cyberattacks-spur-boom-in-insurance-demand-amid-rising-global-threats https://circleid.com/posts/cyberattacks-spur-boom-in-insurance-demand-amid-rising-global-threats <![CDATA[A wave of high-profile cyberattacks is reshaping the global insurance industry, creating both risk and reward for major players. According to a new Bloomberg report, firms like Munich Re and Chubb are capitalising on surging demand for cyber insurance as artificial intelligence makes digital breaches more frequent and destructive.]]> 2025-05-28T10:53:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts/japan-post-launches-digital-codes-to-replace-traditional-addresses https://circleid.com/posts/japan-post-launches-digital-codes-to-replace-traditional-addresses <![CDATA[Japan Post said Monday that it has launched a "digital address" system that links seven-digit combinations of numbers and letters to physical addresses.]]> 2025-05-28T10:33:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts/increasing-broadband-price-competition-accross-us https://circleid.com/posts/increasing-broadband-price-competition-accross-us <![CDATA[Competition has been creeping into broadband pricing for the last several years as cable companies have been using low introductory rates to try to win new customers and offering similarly low prices to try to keep them. Anybody who competes against the big cable companies will tell you that cable companies have been competing for years by offering two-year promotional prices to keep customers. However, competition might have gone into a new gear recently...]]> 2025-05-28T10:18:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts/global-domain-activity-trends-seen-in-q1-2025 https://circleid.com/posts/global-domain-activity-trends-seen-in-q1-2025 <![CDATA[Based on our Q1 2025 ranking of the most popular gTLDs and ccTLDs, the same players pretty much made the list. The .com gTLD remained in first place while the other gTLD extensions like .xyz, .top, and .shop lagged far behind. Among the ccTLDs, only .de made it to the top 10.]]> 2025-05-27T14:56:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts/attaxion-becomes-the-first-easm-platform-to-integrate-enisas-eu-vulnerability-database-euvd https://circleid.com/posts/attaxion-becomes-the-first-easm-platform-to-integrate-enisas-eu-vulnerability-database-euvd <![CDATA[Attaxion, the external attack surface management (EASM) vendor with industry-leading asset coverage, announces the integration of the European Vulnerability Database (EUVD) into its platform.]]> 2025-05-26T12:21:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts/a-targeted-blueprint-for-tackling-dns-abuse https://circleid.com/posts/a-targeted-blueprint-for-tackling-dns-abuse <![CDATA[The NetBeacon Institute is pleased to publish its White Paper: Proposal for PDPs on DNS Abuse. We created this paper to support and advance ICANN Community discussions on potential policy development related to DNS Abuse. From our unique perspective, we believe there are a number of issues that are constrained enough to be a successful ICANN PDP and can make a meaningful difference in our collective work against DNS Abuse.]]> 2025-05-23T08:49:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts/unlocking-the-dns-strongbox-of-badbox-2.0 https://circleid.com/posts/unlocking-the-dns-strongbox-of-badbox-2.0 <![CDATA[HUMAN's Satori Threat Intelligence and Research Team recently uncovered and partially disrupted BADBOX 2.0 in collaboration with Google, Trend Micro, Shadowserver, and other partners. The threat has been dubbed "the largest botnet of infected connected TV (CTV) devices" uncovered to date.]]> 2025-05-21T11:00:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts/cctld-registries-push-back-against-eus-disinformation-crackdown https://circleid.com/posts/cctld-registries-push-back-against-eus-disinformation-crackdown <![CDATA[As the European Union presses ahead with its European Democracy Shield (EUDS) to counter foreign disinformation, European country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registries are urging caution.]]> 2025-05-19T12:56:00-07:00