Networking

Image: Spark New Zealand telco Spark has said its network is now seeing what it calls a “7-day weekend”, with increasing numbers of people working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the planet. The telco said its daytime broadband load has almost doubled, with peak broadband demand hitting ...

Image: Chris Duckett/ZDNet The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced it would pause its NBN entry-level access pricing and wholesale service standards inquiries to allow the industry to deal with the coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping the planet. At the same time, the consumer watchdog also released a position ...

Image: NBN The company responsible for deploying the National Broadband Network (NBN) across Australia has lifted the lid on how its network has been performing as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the planet. On Thursday, NBN said it was starting a new weekly report to show the highest data throughput ...

No one wants a naked man barging into a virtual classroom video conference, but that’s what happened in Norway-based class using the WhereBy service. Here, in the US, the enormously popular Zoom video-conferencing service meetings are getting attacked so often there’s even a phrase for it: Zoombombing.  Indeed, it’s gotten ...

Microsoft says it has issued its first-ever targeted warning to several dozen hospitals, alerting them to vulnerabilities in their virtual private network (VPN) appliances after spotting a ransomware gang targeting them.  The warning follows the recent discovery that Iranian hackers have been targeting vulnerabilities in VPN servers from Pulse Secure, ...

Microsoft has released an emergency update to fix a Windows 10 bug that has been causing internet connectivity issues for users and preventing some Office 365 setups from reaching the cloud.  The company confirmed the internet connectivity bug on Thursday, which affected PCs and servers running all supported versions of ...

Image: Shodan The use of remote access technologies like RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) and VPN (Virtual Private Network) has skyrocketed 41% and 33%, respectively, since the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The move comes as a large number of companies have asked staff to work from home, which usually ...

Finding that your Wi-Fi just isn’t up to the job of working from home (perhaps because you’ve got a household appliance nearby that’s wreaking the signal)? A wired connection is the way to go, and this USB-C to Ethernet is one of the fastest available. The TRENDnet TUC-ET5G USB-C 3.1 ...

Image: DrayTek, ZDNet Since at least early December 2019, a mysterious hacker group has been taking over DrayTek enterprise routers to eavesdrop on FTP and email traffic inside corporate networks, Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 said today. In a report published on the blog of its network security division Netlab, ...

As if working from home wasn’t challenging enough, Microsoft has now warned that a Windows 10 bug is preventing Office 365, Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and other critical work apps from reaching the internet. The Windows 10 connectivity bug couldn’t come at a worse time and is probably causing real pain ...