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European Commission calls for 1-hour takedown of terrorist content online
2018-03-01 13:43:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) The European Commission has called for terrorist content posted online to be taken down within one hour, under a recommendation to EU states on how to tackle illegal online content. The proposal goes further than calls from some EU states, such as 24 hours under recent legislation passed in Germany and a two-hour limit called for by the UK government.
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content
european
commission
Right Blasts Twitter's Bot Takedown
2018-02-23 18:09:31| TechNewsWorld
Conservatives on Twitter have been fulminating over their losses of followers measured in the thousands, a consequence of the network's unannounced lockout earlier this week of suspected bot accounts. Among those objecting to the move are conspiracy theorist Michael Flynn Jr., white supremacist Richard Spencer, Infowars editor Paul Joseph Watson, and NRA TV host Dan Bongino.
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blasts
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China Holds 3-Hour Website Take-Down Drill
2017-08-04 17:06:13| PC Magazine Security Product Guide
The Chinese government is getting local ISPs and cloud service providers to practice taking websites offline quickly when they are deemed harmful.
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china
holds
drill
Nation States May Be Plotting Internet Takedown, Warns Cybersec Pro
2016-09-15 00:23:29| TechNewsWorld
Unknown attackers have been testing the defenses of companies that run critical parts of the Internet, possibly to figure out how to take them down, cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier warned. Large nation states -- perhaps China or Russia -- are the likely culprits, he suggested. "Nation state actors are going to probe to find weaknesses in all of our technologies," said Tripwire's Travis Smith.
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pro
states
nation
The Darkode Takedown: Cybercrime Is Just Plain Crime
2015-07-17 20:01:48| PC Magazine Security Product Guide
Computer-related crime is often portrayed as mysteriously different from other types of crime, but deep down the black hat hacker and the bank robber aren't all that different, as the FBI's takedown of the Darkode hacker forum reveals.
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plain
cybercrime
takedown