The Cybersecurity 202: This new Android app aims to tackle cyber insecurity in the developing world
, a nonprofit organization launched by groups including the New York County District Attorney’s Office and the City of London Police. These cities lose millions of dollars to global cybercrime networks and local police and prosecutors launched the coalition as a way to proactively respond to threats outside their borders before they turn into crimes. Quad9 still receives much of its funding from those organizations but is managed fully independently, Todd said.
And there’s evidence it can be extremely helpful. Quad9 deflects at least 10 million connections to malicious websites each day, Todd said, and can deflect more than 40 million malicious connections on a busy day. The organization’s growth in the developing world is about double what it is in the developed world, he said.
“The losses have touched off a debate within the intelligence community over whether the United States should continue to develop some of the world’s most high-tech, stealthy cyberweapons if it is unable to keep them under lock and key,” the Times reported. To put it more plainly, a common trope that describes the visible web as just the tip of a vast iceberg, has the metaphor “upside down,” the study states.Europol announced just Friday it shut down two dark web marketplaces – nicknamed Wall Street and Valhalla -- that sold drugs, stolen data and other illicit items. Here’s more on that takedownMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella delivers the keynote address at Build, the company's annual conference for software developers.
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