Undersea internet cables face new threatsWith undersea cables linking the world's continents, recent incidents involving foreign vessels raise questions about their security. Chris Krebs, former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director, weighs in on the growing threats....
This is a crucial undertaking. The internet directly contributes$167 billionor more a year to the Australian economy. These cables enable everything from mundane social media updates to the colossal transactions that drive the global economy. But what is driving Australia's urgency to better protect...
For Pacific Island countries, undersea internet cables can be crucial. The number of Pacific Island countries with such connections has increased substantiallyin recent years. Even so, many countries still rely on a single cable and others have no cable at all. Each undersea cable is about the ...
Last year,underwater cablesin the Red Sea, lying between Africa and Asia, were cut and disrupted internet service. It was unclear how the cables were damaged and Yemen’s Houthi rebels denied attacking the lines to pressure Israel to end its war on Hamas in Gaza, theAsso...
Multiple undersea internet cables were mysteriously severed and subsequently gained significant attention in the beginning of 2008. The attacks on those cables highlighted the enormous amount of internet traffic that uses the undersea cable system, which...Tony M. Damico...
An incident where three men allegedly cut an undersea cables raises the question of how vulnerable the world's submarine internet cables are to damage, whether intentional or accidental.
"Internet disruptions caused by earthquake damagetoundersea cables";"Public consultation on proposed spectrum policy framework"; [...] legco.gov.hk legco.gov.hk 在本年度會期內,事務委員會合共舉行了9次公聽會,聽取市民對下述課題的意 見:"地震損毀海底電纜導致互聯網服務中斷"、"無線電頻譜政策綱要建議公...
根据第二段中的"the nation of about 100,000 people remained largely cut off from the rest of the world,its undersea internet cables knocked out of commission by the volcano.(这个约10万人口的国家仍然与世界其他地区基本隔绝,它的海底互联网电缆因火山爆发而out of commission。)"可知,这个国家与世界...
James Stavridis, a retired US Navy admiral and former supreme allied commander of NATO,warned in Aprilagainst “Beijing’s increasing influence in constructing and repairing the undersea cables that move virtually all the information on the internet.” ...
Under the Baltic Sea, there are dozens of vulnerable internet and power cables, laid mostly unprotected on the seabed. According to Rutte, more than 95% of internet traffic globally is carried via undersea cables, with some 1.3 million kilometers of such cabling securing an estimated $10 trilli...