Global Cyber Alliance

TL;DR: In what should be news to no one, block lists don’t work.  Also, block lists without transparency and remediation tools impede legitimate use. "The two research domains have been in place for two weeks and it seems that nobody noticed. We are not aware of an official appeal process for domain owners, as there apparently is no direct route to complain." https://lnkd.in/gFMhasSK

This is great research done by TorrentFreak reporters on how chaotic the treatment of domain blocking is, and this chaos and poor management of blocking outcomes is one of the many reasons we object to the #DNS being weaponized. The underlying concept of forcing DNS blocking on users is fundamentally broken, and this article shows the second order effects of how that enforcement is also broken. These types of inevitable and widespread failures will create a distrust in the DNS system in general, which is counter to a stable, high-integrity service. Users will start to think that less trustworthy resolvers in potentially hostile regions have the same value as high-integrity services with security features, with the negative outcomes that come as a result of that confusion. This is bad for France, and bad for everyone. #InternetIntegrity https://lnkd.in/e29rHmd5

As the MANRS Secretariat, we'd like to thank all the MANRS Participants who voted in this election and congratulate Nick, Phil, and Arturo. Welcome to the MANRS Steering Committee, and thank you for all your work to make the Internet's routing system better for all of us.

On this day in 1969, UCLA programmer Charley Kline tried to log in to a computer at the Stanford Research Institute over the brand-new ARPANET. 57 years later, more than six billion people rely on that network to work, learn, vote, bank, and stay connected. But on today’s Internet, people and organizations confront digital threats that jeopardize our collective security, privacy, and trust in the digital world. We study systemic threats, identify what’s needed to overcome them, how each player in the Internet ecosystem can help, and then we build practical solutions that everyone can use. Happy International Internet Day. Here’s to keeping it safe. 🌐 #InternetDay #ARPANET #Cybersecurity #InternationalInternetDay

Last full week of #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth! We're sharing daily tips on Instagram and Facebook and rounding it up into a weekly recap here. Share with your colleagues, friends, family, and anyone else who could use these quick tips to be safer online. This week we covered: 👉 Limit location sharing -- Better for your privacy, your security, and your battery. 👉 Be suspicious -- Watch for urgent requests, typos, and images that look slightly wrong. 👉 Check for HTTPS -- Never enter personal information on a site that starts with http://. 👉 Avoid financial scams -- Verify any money transfer request directly with the person asking. 👉 Shop safe -- Trusted retailers, credit over debit, and skip the too-good-to-be-true deals. 👉 Use CyberFlex -- A free GCA resource helping young adults prevent, report, and recover from scams. 👉 Check public Wi-Fi -- Know what network you're joining, and what you're sharing on it. Specific tools and guidance are available here: https://lnkd.in/ej3ADvMd

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Our Director of Engagement, Alejandro Fernández-Cernuda, is onsite in Paris this week for Messaging, Malware, Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group. He'll be speaking on Thursday about our Domain Trust initiative. At M3AAWG General Meetings, industry experts, researchers, and public policy professionals present on topics such as botnet disruption, phishing and fraud prevention, messaging and mobile abuse, infrastructure security, and emerging policy and regulatory developments. If you'll be there, let's chat about how we can work together to reduce domain abuse. #M3AAWG #M3AAWG68

Quad9 DNS will stop serving users in France rather than comply with a court order requiring it to block specific domains for French users. This is a hard call, and we support it. Quad9 doesn’t track where its users are, and it won’t change or misrepresent the DNS answers people receive. This is what happens when we try to solve global technical problems with measures that stop at national borders. Take down the illegal streams, but don’t break the Internet to do it. Every block like this means different people get a different version of the Internet depending on where they are. The more that happens, the less we have an Internet with integrity. Piracy should be dealt with at its source, not by turning neutral DNS resolvers into tools for national filtering. Openness isn’t just a design principle. It’s a feature of the global economy. One global economy needs one global Internet, as our CTO Leslie Daigle recently wrote in Forbes: https://lnkd.in/e7iStph4