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SplinterCon conference report on internet fragmentation

By: dmitri On: May 01, 2024 Advocacy, Splinternet Comments Disabled

The inaugural SplinterCon was held in Montreal, December 2023. This was a first-of-its-kind gathering that brought together a diverse community of network researchers, technology entrepreneurs, software developers, and internet freedom advocates to address the challenges and innovations in the realm of the “Splinternet.” The proceedings and outcomes of this event are documented in the post […]

Canada’s refusal to bid for the Internet Governance Forum 2024: a missed opportunity for the country and global civil society

By: dmitri On: October 11, 2023 Advocacy, Blog Comments Disabled

The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) plays a vital role in shaping the future of the internet, fostering international cooperation, and addressing the various challenges that arise in the digital age. In recent months, many Canadians organizations were having high hopes of hosting the IGF in Montreal in 2024. Led by eQualitie, envisioning it as a […]

Ukraine Deserves to Win. Nobel Peace Prize Laureates To Send a Powerful Message to the US Government

By: dmitri On: July 22, 2023 Advocacy, Blog, Ukraine Comments Disabled

From July 25 to 28, 2023, a delegation of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureates from Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia will hold meetings with senior US government officials, delivering a message of unwavering support for Ukraine. The visit, initiated and supported by eQualitie will take place in Washington DC in partnership with the National Endowment […]

How decentralization saved the Ukrainian internet: lessons from 2022, government officials and telecom industry reflect in Kyiv

By: dmitri On: June 06, 2023 Advocacy, Press Release, Ukraine Comments Disabled

How decentralization saved the Ukrainian internet: lessons from 2022, government officials and telecom industry reflect in Kyiv

Advocacy,Press Release,Ukraine

The Ukrainian telecoms market incurred $2.3B in losses during the initial year of the invasion, per the World Bank. Key stakeholders, including industry leaders, government officials, and international partners, gathered in Kyiv for the “Ukraine: Communications and Internet Resilience during War” conference on May 26, 2023. Organized by eQualitie and Internews Ukraine, the event focused […]

Donate to Keep Ukrainians online

By: dmitri On: January 26, 2023 Advocacy, Ukraine Comments Disabled

Donate to Keep Ukrainians online

Advocacy,Ukraine

Since October 2022, Russia has been targeting critical civilian infrastructure in Ukraine with its missiles and drones. Attacks have degraded electricity generation and distribution, cutting off power and thereby heating, water treatment and Internet connectivity for millions of people. Rolling electricity blackouts lasting anywhere from several hours to days are making this brutal conflict even harsher. Even if the war was to stop tomorrow, damage to electricity power plants and distribution networks will persist.

Launching the Ukrainian digital security helpline – Nadiyno

By: dmitri On: November 03, 2022 Advocacy, Blog, Ukraine Comments Disabled

On 8th of November 2022, eQualitie and Internews Ukraine are launching nadiyno.org – the first national digital security helpline in Ukraine, for responding to any and all questions from the public relating to cyber security. We have assembled and trained a dedicated team of helpline support staff and digital experts, stood up systems to document […]

eQualitie’s position on the war in Ukraine

By: dmitri On: March 15, 2022 Advocacy, Press Release, Ukraine Comments Disabled

eQualitie’s position on the war in Ukraine

Advocacy,Press Release,Ukraine

We choose to stand with Ukrainians who are defending their homes and families. We mourn the lives already lost and the destruction of Ukrainian cities and its cultural heritage.

IGF 2024 in Montreal

By: dmitri On: November 22, 2021 Advocacy, Blog, Technology Comments Disabled

IGF 2024 in Montreal

Advocacy,Blog,Technology

Join eQualitie in encouraging the government of Canada to invite the IGF Secretariat to Montreal in 2024.

eQ offers Deflect website security services for free in response to COVID-19

By: dmitri On: April 27, 2020 Advocacy, DDoS, Press Release Comments Disabled

eQ offers Deflect website security services for free in response to COVID-19

Advocacy,DDoS,Press Release

In response and solidarity with numerous efforts that have sprung up to help with communications, coordination and outreach during the COVID-19 epidemic, eQualitie is offering Deflect website security and content delivery services for free until the end of 2020 to organizations and individuals working to help others during this difficult time.

Deflect Labs Report #6: Phishing and Web Attacks Targeting Uzbek Human Right Activists and Independent Media

By: Etienne On: May 09, 2019 Advocacy, DDoS, Deflect, Deflect Labs, News from Deflect Labs, Threat Intel Comments Disabled

Key Findings We’ve discovered infrastructure used to launch and coordinate attacks targeting independent media and human rights activists from Uzbekistan The campaign has been active since early 2016, using web and phishing attacks to suppress and exploit their targets We have no evidence of who is behind this campaign but the target list points to […]

eQualitie statement on the detention of Ola Bini

By: demkodo On: May 06, 2019 Advocacy Comments Disabled

EMBASSY OF ECUADOR 99 Bank, Suite 230 Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6B9 To the Ambassador of Ecuador in Canada – Mr. Diego Stacey Moreno and to the Minister of Political and Economic Affairs, Mrs. Elizabeth Moreano, On April 11, data privacy and open source advocate Ola Bini was arrested at the Quito International Airport, where he […]

News from Deflect Labs: DDoS attacks against Caucasian Knot

By: dmitri On: March 19, 2019 Advocacy, DDoS, News from Deflect Labs Comments Disabled

Key Findings In November and December 2018, we identified 3 DDoS attacks against independent media website Кавказский Узел (Caucasian Knot) The first attack was by far the largest DDoS attack seen by the Deflect project in 2018, clocking over 7.7 million queries in 4 hours The three attacks used different types of relays, including open […]

Distributed Deflect – project review

By: dmitri On: March 23, 2017 Advocacy, Blog, DDoS, Deflect, General Comments Disabled

This is the fifth year of Deflect operations and an opportune time to draw some conclusions from the past and provide a round of feedback to our many users and peers. We fought and won several hundred battles with various distributed denial of service and social engineering attacks against us and our clients, expanding the […]

Distributed Denial of Women – a general strike

By: Floriana On: February 13, 2017 Advocacy, Blog, Inspiration Comments Disabled

It’s a well-known problem: the tech industry, be it proprietary or open source, hasn’t managed to tackle inequality in its ranks despite several proactive efforts and millions of dollars invested to diversify their staff. There are many explanations and critiques of these approaches, but in the end what counts is that technology is still developed […]

Deflecting cyber attacks against the Black Lives Matter website

By: Floriana On: July 12, 2016 Advocacy, Blog, DDoS Comments Disabled

Last week and throughout the weekend, Deflect helped mitigate several DDoS attack bursts against the official Black Lives Matter website. At current estimates over 12,000 bots pounded the website just over 35 million times in 24 hours. An unusual trait of this attack was the prevalence of malicious connections originating from the US. An in-depth […]

Deflect stats March 2016

By: dmitri On: April 01, 2016 Advocacy, Blog, DDoS, Deflect Labs, Deflect stats Comments Disabled

This is the first in a monthly series of posts sharing and discussing statistics on the Deflect network. March 2016 was a busy month for us. We began to publish analytic reports on DDoS attacks against some of the clients we protect on the network. Our aim is to help the target’s advocacy efforts and […]

Deflect Labs – fighting impunity with analytics and advocacy

By: dmitri On: March 29, 2016 Advocacy, DDoS, Deflect Labs Comments Disabled

For the last four years, the Deflect DDoS mitigation system has protected independent online voices from the onslaught of cyber-attacks aiming to silence them. We have grown, learning our lessons as we took the punches. One aspect of this work stood out as particularly interesting during this time: there were stories to be told in […]

DDoS mitigation on a network of principles and openness

By: dmitri On: June 12, 2014 Advocacy, DDoS, Inspiration Comments Disabled

Yesterday saw the public launch of Project Galileo, a CloudFlare initiative that partners with reputable international advocacy and civil society organizations to offer free DDoS mitigation services to human rights and independent media groups. As with our support for Google’s Project Shield last year, we welcome all attempts to bring DDoS mitigation to a wider […]

Take Back The Net!

By: dmitri On: June 02, 2014 Advocacy, Digital Security Comments Disabled

This week eQualitie will be attending Take Back The Net, a two-day conference in which “human rights advocates and transformative technology providers will meet to discuss what civil society organisations and individuals can do to restore trust in communication infrastructure”. We are attending as guests of the Association of Progressive Communications, organisers of the conference […]

Sweden gets eQualitie

By: dmitri On: June 02, 2014 Advocacy Comments Disabled

Last week eQualitie attended the Stockholm Internet Forum 2014, an annual gathering of multi-stakeholders from internet governance, global civil society, freedom of expression networks, independent media and even some progressive-minded government types. We spent three days meeting with activists, journalists and policy makers to listen to their concerns and discuss the best ways forward for […]