On 24 June 2026, two strong earthquakes, registering magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5, hit Venezuela. The seismic event was the strongest in over a century, killing over 2,000 people, destroying homes across ...

We are only five months away from 21 October and a new day to celebrate, promote, and defend encryption together. Strong encryption is a fundamental part of how we remain safe online and offline. It ...

For more than three decades, the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium has brought together leading cybersecurity researchers, academics, and practitioners from around the world to ...

In 2026, we will run the second edition of the full Internet Society NDSS Fellowship Program to give you a richer and more rewarding experience before, during, and after the NDSS Symposium 2026. Our ...

The Internet is built on openness and connectivity. Users of the Internet have embedded those same principles into its culture: mass collaboration with people all over the world, sharing and building ...

Connectivity is essential, but it’s not enough on its own. Too many people experience safety threats as a routine part of their online life. Misinformation, online scams, cybersecurity threats, ...

Encryption is a technology designed to help Internet users keep their information and communications private and secure. The process of encryption scrambles information so that it can only be read by ...

Artificial intelligence is a technology that is already impacting how users interact with, and are affected by the Internet. In the near future, its impact is likely to only continue to grow. AI has ...

The outage did not directly impact Seacom, whose network spans the East African and South African coastlines. However, due to outages to its partner networks on the West Coast—WACS and MainOne—it had ...

At the Internet Society we work towards developing the Internet to be open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy. A big part of this work is growing the Internet to those who need it the most, ...

What is DNS, and Why is it Critical? The domain name system (DNS) [1] is fundamental to everything we do online. Serving as a directory lookup for the Internet, it makes the Internet easier for humans ...

Encryption is an essential component of a safe and trustworthy Internet. Weakening it not only undermines personal privacy but also jeopardizes national security and global cybersecurity standards.