CERT Tonga held a workshop last week to discuss and share information on Emotet malware and how to mitigate its impact. Participants were ICT practitioners from Government ministries and agencies, public enterprises and boards, private businesses and NGOs.
Included in the program was an awareness session on other cyber incidents observed in Tonga and an update on CERT Tonga and their role
Jonathan Brewer designs and builds wireless networks for broadband, utilities, public safety, and the Internet of Things throughout the Asia-Pacific region. He has done incredible research in policy development on topics including network interconnectivity, radio spectrum, and universal access in developed and developing markets. Check out the awesome website that he has built which highlights…
View as originally posted on Cook Island News With yesterday’s internet switch-over, Aitutaki becomes one of the smallest fibre-connected islands in the world. Intermittent internet on Aitutaki had left some of the island’s residents frustrated this week. The Vodafone service was “very poor” and the Wi-Fi hotspot had been playing up, said resident Regina Potini….
as originally appears on Kacific.com Cape Canaveral, FL. 16 December 2019 – Kacific1 was launched successfully into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 7.10pm Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5) on 16 December 2019 from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA. It was placed into its target geostationary transfer orbit 33 minutes following initial…
REGISTER for PacINET 2013 The annual PICISOC Conference, PacINET 2013, is scheduled to be held at the Fa’onelua convention centre, Nuku’alofa, Tonga. Our host will be the Tonga Ministry of Information and you can register here. This year’s event celebrates the emergence of high speed Internet connectivity at the Kingdom of Tonga. Our theme is…
The Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society was presented by Maureen Hilyard on 8 July 2015, to the members of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society at the Annual General Meeting held in Auckland, prior to NetHui 2015. The Board was also…
Seventeen years ago, the Y2K bug was making headlines around the world as programmers worked frantically to update their systems to prevent a potential crash on 1 January 2000. It was during this Y2K rush that Etuate Cocker, a network/systems engineer at Spark New Zealand, who originally hails from the Kingdom of Tonga, remembers becoming interested…