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 ...
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.21m ago...
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.
The Google Equiano internet cable has made its final landing in Melkbosstrand, Cape Town, a month after arriving in Namibia, Wiocc announced Source: Google Cloud The Equiano cable connects Europe to Africa’s western coast via a landing station in Lisbon, Portugal, and has nearly ten times ...
The 2011 tsunami in Japan broke seven of its 12 cables—if one more had broken, Japan could have been cut off from the internet. Moreover, the lifespan of most cables is about 25 years—so many of the cables laid during the dot-com boom are now nearing the end of their lives and ...
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...
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...
China Spying on Undersea Internet Cables Supply chain security is an insurmountably hard problem. The recent focus is on Chinese 5G equipment, but the problem is much broader.This opinion piecelooks at undersea communications cables: But now the Chinese conglomerate Huawei Technologies, the leading...
Two undersea cables carrying internet data deep in the Baltic Sea were damaged, European telecommunications companies said this week, drawing warnings from European governments of possible Russian "hybrid warfare" targeting global communications infrastructure. ...