Inmarsat Satellite Telecom, IoT & Security Services, Going Private (video)

Inmarsat Fleet Secure Endpoint for cyber resilience at sea

The maritime industry is at increasing risk of cyber security breaches every day but conventional antivirus cover is no longer enough to protect vessels again new forms of malware which use the network to attack your systems. Inmarsat’s Fleet Secure Endpoint has an advanced ransomware detection engine to continually inspect, detect, alert and respond to threats and is remotely monitored 24/7/365. Video above published Jan, 2019.

UK’s Inmarsat Satellite Group Going Private in $3.4 Billion Deal--bloomberg.com: Inmarsat has been in play since last year as it faces growing competition from traditional rivals such as ViaSat Inc. and new challengers including Richard Branson-backed OneWeb and Elon Musk’s SpaceX offering smaller, cheaper satellites.

Inmarsat received an all-cash offer from a private equity consortium for a total consideration of $3.4B. The deal is not expected to close before Q4 2019--until then, any other party can submit an offer. Strong Q4 2018 results for maritime and aviation broadband indicates bright prospects.--SeekingAlpha.com: Inmarsat: Latest Offer Undervalues The Company.

LON: ISAT

Inmarsat plc is a UK satellite telecommunications company. It offers global mobile services, telephone and data services, to users worldwide, via portable or mobile terminals which communicate with ground stations through thirteen geostationary telecommunications satellites. Inmarsat has been working on selling faster, more reliable internet services to the world’s airlines.

• Domain: inmarsat.com
• Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
• Investor Relations: investors.inmarsat.com
• CEO: Rupert Pearce (Jan 1, 2012–)
• Revenue: 1.465 billion USD (2018)
• Number of employees: 1,500 (2019)
• Founded: 1979
• Subsidiaries include Stratos Global Corporation, Inmarsat Global Limited.
• Stock Exchange & Symbol: LON: ISAT

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Europol Report: 2017 Top Threat In Cybercrime Epidemic Is Ransomware

Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) 2017 | Europol.europa.eu--excerpts:

"... Ransomware attacks have eclipsed most other global cybercrime threats, with the first half of 2017 witnessing ransomware attacks on a scale previously unseen following the emergence of self-propagating ‘ransomworms’, as observed in the WannaCry and Petya/NotPetya cases. Moreover, while information-stealing malware such as banking Trojans remain a key threat, they often have a limited target profile. Ransomware has widened the range of potential malware victims, impacting victims indiscriminately across multiple industries in both the private and public sectors, and highlighting how connectivity and poor digital hygiene and security practices can allow such a threat to quickly spread and expand the attack vector. The extent of this threat becomes more apparent when considering attacks on critical infrastructure." (emphasis added)

"Cryptocurrencies continue to be exploited by cybercriminals, with Bitcoin being the currency of choice in criminal markets, and as payment for cyber-related extortion attempts, such as from ransomware or a DDoS attack. However, other cryptocurrencies such as Monero, Ethereum and Zcash are gaining popularity within the digital underground." (emphasis added)

Full report (pdf) embed below:

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See also: Europol: Ransomware top threat in 2017 cybercrime 'epidemic' | Reuters.com

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Tech Review: Ransomware Attacks Just The Tip of the Iceberg (video)

Tech Review (TR 2017-07-01)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech news:

Features • 1)  Ransomware Attacks Just The Tip of the Iceberg, 2) Google faces years of EU oversight, 3) Uber's Valuation?, 4) Baidu AI Developers Conference, 5) Censorship: Germany, 6) Global Top 100 Brands 2017, 7) ICYMI Tech News.

1) McAfee CEO Says Ransomware Attacks Are Just Beginning

Video above published Jun 27, 2017: Chris Young, McAfee.com's chief executive officer, discusses the spread of ransomware attacks across the globe with Bloomberg's Emily Chang on "Bloomberg Technology." See New ransomware outbreak reported all over world | TheHill.com.

  Source: Statista.com

According to data provided by IT-security institute AV-Test, ransomware (such as "WannaCry" and "Petya") is only a very small share of all malware detected worldwide.--Statista.com.

See also on cybersecurity: 

• A new ransomware attack is infecting airlines, banks, and utilities across Europe | TheVerge.com and Ransomware: More and smarter scams coming soon | ZDNet.com

• Global Phishing Survey, New gTLD Domain Names, Malicious Registrations | DomainMondo.com

• If You See This Email From Amazon, Do Not Click | americanow.com and Ransomware Is a Real Threat, but Don’t Forget the Botnets | MIT TechnologyReview.com

Other Tech News:

2)  Google faces years of EU oversight on top of record antitrust fine | Reuters.com and EVIL GOOGLE: European Commission €2.42B (US$2.73B) Antitrust Fine | DomainMondo.com. Alphabet ($GOOGL and $GOOG) generated $90.3 billion in revenue in 2016. Google's share of that revenue was $89.5 billion. 

3)  Unicorns: With rising competition and no real moat, Uber may not be really worth its $68B Silicon Valley valuation, even if it overhauls its corporate culture--Uber’s Biggest Problem: Its Business Model | WSJ.com.

4) 2017 百度AI开发者大会 | Baidu AI Developers Conference | baidu.com:

"Baidu is inviting developers from all around the world to participate in this festival of AI technology." July 5, 2017, Beijing.

5)  Censorship: Germany enacts law with fines of up to $57 million for social media websites failing to delete illegal, racist, or slanderous content within 24 hours--NYTimes.com.

6)  brandZ.com | Global Top 100 Brands 2017: #1 Google; #2 Apple; #3 Microsoft; #4 Amazon; #5 Facebook; ... #8 Tencent; #9 IBM; ... #14 Alibaba; ... #17 China Mobile .... #21 SAP (highest rank of all non-US & non-China brands)  ...."

7) ICYMI Tech News Quick Takes:

• Despite hacking charges, U.S. tech industry fought to keep ties to Russia spy service FSB | Reuters.com
• China intending to take lead with national AI plan | Chinadaily.com.cn: "Minister of Science and Technology Wan Gang said the country will soon release a national strategy to detail how to boost the development of AI through 2030."
• Facebook hits 2 billion-user mark, doubling in size since 2012 | Reuters.com
• Can You Hear Me Now? Verizon Is Under Attack (NYSE:VZ) | SeekingAlpha.com
• Consortium of European banks pick IBM for trade finance blockchain platform | Reuters.com
• Top 10 global smartphone suppliers | Chinadaily.com.cn
• Social media giants Facebook, Google's YouTube, Twitter and Microsoft, step up joint fight against extremist content | Reuters.com
• Whole Foods Could Be The Next YouTube (NASDAQ:AMZN) | SeekingAlpha.com
• Apple CEO touts India impact in push for deeper market access | Reuters.com
• Apple: Buy Dollars For Less Than 70 Cents (NASDAQ:AAPL) | SeekingAlpha.com
• RadioShack creditors' lawsuit says Sprint killed 6,000 jobs | Reuters.com
• Bootstrapping your e-commerce business? Here are 9 best practices to consider | e27.co

-- John Poole, Editor, Domain Mondo  

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ICANN New gTLDs' Domain Name Registrations Implode | NR 2017-05-14

Domain Mondo's weekly internet domain news review (NR 2017-05-14):

Features •  1)  ICANN New gTLDs' Domain Name Registrations Implode, 2) .NET Registry Agreement, 3) Other ICANN news, 4) Names, Domains & Trademarks: INTA meeting May 20-24, 5) ICYMI, 6) Q1 2017 Earnings Season, 7) Most Popular.

1)  ICANN New gTLDs' Domain Name Registrations Implode:
UPDATE May 18, 2017: New gTLDs' Implosion Unabated--almost 2 million decrease in new gTLDs' domain name registrations April 13 - May 17, 2017

Review the data (via nTLDstats.com) showing the implosion began in mid-April (see Jan 2017 - present date chart above) and read this week's tweets of the week, all from @DomainKing:

ALL 2017 #GTLD registrations WIPED OUT as per graphic below! Dozens of NEW extensions could not overcome the continuing MELTDOWN! #Domains pic.twitter.com/N6PLzfZgC3

— Rick Schwartz (@DomainKing) May 10, 2017

Only sector in worse shape than #retail is #GTLD's. I have NEVER seen hemorrhaging like this in what should b time of HUGE GROWTH! #Domains

— Rick Schwartz (@DomainKing) May 10, 2017

My tweets about #gtld's can't b popular. Many friends/colleagues work, advertise, buy/sell & have other forms of monetary interest. #Domains

— Rick Schwartz (@DomainKing) May 10, 2017

But it will never change the facts or the reality of this ill conceived CLUSTERF*CK. I will always tell it like I see it. #gtld #Domains

— Rick Schwartz (@DomainKing) May 10, 2017

[Editor's note: comments close 19 May 2017 23:59 UTC, on the Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice Review Team [CCT-RT] Draft Report of Recommendations for New gTLDs. I intend to submit a comment, however I am waiting to receive answers from ICANN to the questions I submitted (pdf)(embed below) on April 26, 2017, in advance of the quarterly ICANN stakeholder call on April 27.  At that time I was assured by ICANN staff that my questions would be answered offline "so we can be as thorough as possible to your many questions"]:

I'm still working on a title for my forthcoming comment to CCT-RT, possibilities:

• ICANN's New gTLDs: A New Generation of Ransomware for Domain Name Registrants?
• The Sordid History of ICANN & Its New gTLDs from Beckstrom-Thrush-Pritz (pdf) to Atallah & Chehade;
• ICANN & Its New gTLDs: A Legal Racket or Consumer (registrant) Scam?
• New gTLDs: A Dream Come True for Cybercriminals, Cybersquatters, Spammers, & ICANN?
• ICANN's New gTLDs Program: Greed + Incompetence = Choice & Innovation?

If you have a suggestion, feel free to send it to me via Twitter @DomainMondo.

2) .NET Registry Agreement: Page 4 of my questions above concerns the proposed renewal of the .NET Registry Agreement (comments close May 30). Inexplicably, this past Friday evening thru Saturday morning, the open comments page had deleted the .NET Registry Agreement entry, and the ICANN webpage on the "Proposed Renewal of .NET Registry Agreement" was returning a "404"--

3) Other ICANN news

•  Agenda | Special Meeting of the ICANN Board, 18 May 2017:

• Consent Agenda: 1) Approval of Minutes; 2) Initiating the Second Review of the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC)
• Main Agenda: 1)Approval of the Global Amendment to the Base New gTLD Registry Agreement; 2) Release of Second-Level Country and Territory Names in New gTLDs; 3) AOB
• Executive Session – Confidential

•   ICANN59 Community Webinar | ICANN.org: "ICANN will be holding an informational webinar on Tuesday, 16 May 2017, at 1600 UTC."

•   The Fourth Middle East Domain Name System (DNS) Forum to Take Place in Cairo, Egypt | ICANN.org  22 and 23 May.

•   2016 Reconsideration Requests Status Update – 08 May 2017 | ICANN.org:08 May 2017:  reconsideration-requests-status-2016-08may17-en.pdf [138 KB]

4) Names, Domains & Trademarks

• INTA | Barcelona 20-24 May 2017 @INTA  #INTA17

• The Rise and Fall of the UDRP Theory of 'Retroactive Bad Faith' | circleid.com

• It's not what you say, it's how quickly you trademark it | Reuters.com

• WIPO - UDRP: Proof of bad faith registration crucial | Lexology.com

• US Court Orders Registries to Seize Control of 'Pirate' Domains | TorrentFreak.com

• Fake DDoS attack threatening .US domain names | OnlineDomain.com: "... every scammer in the world is using the domain name whois info."

5) ICYMI Internet Domain News 

• Ransomware: Global cyber attack slows but experts see risk of fresh strikes | Reuters.com and Factbox: Don't click - What is the 'ransomware' WannaCry worm? | Reuters.com.
• Net Neutrality: Why the Next 10 Days Are Critical to the Internet's Future | blog.mozilla.org re: FCC’s May 18 meeting.
• China Search Engine Market Share Q1 2017 | ChinaInternetWatch.com: "Baidu still leads China's search engine market in Q1 2017 with 75.88% market share by total revenues (including overseas revenues and channel revenues), followed by Google China (10.24%) and Sogou (8.41%)."
• Internet shutdowns: What can the UN do if your country cuts the internet? | Internet | AlJazeera.com: "It has been almost a year since internet access was declared a human right, yet infringements continue. Between January and March 2017, internet in two English-speaking regions of Cameroon was cut off for almost 100 days following protests over an attempt to force the use of French in schools and courtrooms."
• China's Internet: Foreign business groups push for delay in controversial China cyber law | Reuters.com

6) Q1 2017 Earnings Season

•  Q1 2017 results this coming week: Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA), May 18 at 7:30 am EDT via DomainMondo.com.  This past week: Tucows $TCX and Rightside $NAME.

•  The Most Interesting Thing About the Buffett / Seides Bet | ritholtz.com: "Investing is extremely difficult, even for the best and brightest. Randomness plays a far greater role in our success or failure than we’re comfortable with. And most of the time it’s better to be lucky than good."

7) Most popular posts (# of pageviews Sun-Sat) this past week on DomainMondo.com: 

1. Q1 2017 Results LIVE Webcasts May 9: Rightside $NAME & Tucows $TCX
2. News Review: Why New gTLDs Mistakes Don't Matter | NR 2017-05-07

-- John Poole, Editor, Domain Mondo 

[All "Editor's note" comments are the opinions of the above]

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