The U.S. government’s healthcare insurance sign-up site HealthCare.gov is quietly handing over deeply personal information to advertising and social networks, according to a Tuesday Associated Press report. The Electronic Frontier Foundation… Read more »
CDN expert Dan Rayburn reported Monday that Microsoft is deep-sixing its home-grown content delivery network capabilities and is instead turning to Verizon EdgeCast to deliver video for Microsoft Azure customers. Verizon bought Edgecast for… Read more »
The internet seemed to be back up in North Korea on Tuesday, after experiencing a nearly “unprecedented” interruption, according to the BBC and other reports although Akamai said sporadic glitches occurred throughout the day… Read more »
The campaign group Greatfire.org says it is sneaking Chinese-language BBC content behind the Great Firewall using its CDN-based mirror site approach. Read more »
“Let’s Encrypt” is an initiative backed by Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, the EFF and others. The aim is to get more websites offering secure connections for their customers, with minimal hassle associated… Read more »
GreatFire.org, which monitors the activities of China’s monolithic web censorship mechanism, claims HSBC’s Akamai-using corporate banking portal has falled victim to the Great Firewall. Read more »
The content delivery network that touts a software-centric approach in addition to using solid state drives for better load times will add points-of-presence locations in places like Seattle, Brazil and South… Read more »