Hacker Control Via ISP
Knowing the rate of cyber-crime the UK has it's no wonder they're trying to think of anything that might work to take it down. Now, a few Lords are asking Internet Service Providers to "Police" the Internet.
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7.9.2007 Hacking Firefox: The secrets of about:config
Ever since its debut, Firefox has garnered a reputation for being an enormously customizable program, both through its add-on architecture and its internal settings. In fact, many of Firefox's settings aren't exposed through the Tools > Options menu; the only way to change them is to edit them manually.
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29.5.2007 Microsoft Frowns on iDefense Hacking Challenge
Security intelligence outfit iDefense Labs is offering a $10,000 reward to any hacker who finds a worm hole in Microsoft's products, but the software maker isn't exactly thrilled by the gambit.
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23.2.2006 Two New Internet Explorers
Along with Beta 1 of Windows Vista, Microsoft has produced not one but two beta versions of Internet Explorer 7--one for Windows XP, and one in the Vista beta. The most exciting (and long overdue) innovation in both is tabbed browsing, which lets you open multiple Web pages in one browser window. You switch between the pages by clicking tabs in the IE 7 window. (The free MSN Search Toolbar adds tabs to IE 6.) Tabs have long been in Opera, and they're an attraction in Mozilla Firefox.
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Internet Explorer 8.0
You may get to have a look at the future of the Internet Explorer browser sooner than you might think.
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14.1.2007 Internet Explorer 8, to Be or Not to Be
Internet Explorer 8 is still approximately a year before the final version will be released, in fact Microsoft has not even made available the first beta for the browser, but the successor of Internet Explorer 7 has already been taking hits.
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24.1.2008 The History of Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer is 10 years old this year, but its genealogical roots are actually much older. Back when the Internet was first invented (for want of a better word) it was used mainly by universities and research institutions to share documents and information via FTP, Gopher and Usenet. Casual usage as we know it today was a rarity. That, however, was to change as the World Wide Web slowly came into being, thanks to a gentleman by the name of Tim Berners-Lee who not only published the first formal proposal for the World Wide Web, but is also credited with publishing the first Web page on August 6, 1991.
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Internet Explorer Chat
Internet Explorer is a set of core technologies in Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional operating systems that provides enhanced privacy features and a flexible and reliable browsing experience.
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9.3.2006 Internet Computer Names
I had a very exciting chat with some beta users today where, for the first time, we talked about a feature I am very excited about that we are calling Internet Computer Names.
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24.8.2006 Internet Explorer 7 Today
Microsoft plans to push out Internet Explorer 7 as a 'high priority update' when it ships security patches tomorrow, according to Washingtonpost.com's Security Fix blog.
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10.10.2006 Internet Explorer Video
Watch this entertaining video on how Internet Explorer 7 has made Roger's everyday tasks easier.
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19.10.2006 RIAA wants the Internet shut down
One of the lawyers involved in defending cases bought against people by the RIAA claims that if the music industry wins a crucial case, the Internet will have to be switched off.
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30.11.2006 Internet Explorer 8 In The Works
It seems Microsoft is putting IE8 development into gear. Participants of the Windows Server "Longhorn" beta program on Microsoft Connect have just received an email notifying them that a new survey for Internet Explorer 8 has been published on the program site.
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29.1.2007 Internet TV to get Silverlight
Maven Networks, which provides hosting services for Internet TV, will announce Wednesday plans to add Microsoft's new Silverlight technology as a video delivery vehicle.
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13.6.2007 Portable Internet Explorer 7
Internet Explorer 7 provides improved navigation through tabbed browsing, web search right from the toolbar, advanced printing, easy discovery, reading and subscription to RSS feeds.
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22.6.2007 AIO Internet Explorer 7
All in one Internet Explorer 7 (and as some useful utilities). Thanks to odeeee for this download.
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23.7.2007 Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Now Available
We’re excited to release IE8 Beta 2 today for public download. You can find it at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8. Please try it out!
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27.8.2008 Internet Explorer 8 RC1 - First look
Yesterday Microsoft made available Internet Explorer 8 RC1 (release candidate 1), which means that as far as Microsoft is concerned, IE8 is cooked and that barring anything major, this will become the final release. So, what’s the new browser like?
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27.1.2009 The New Internet Games in Windows 7
If you’re running the Windows 7 Beta and hadn’t already noticed, we are introducing 3 new Windows Games for Windows 7.
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21.2.2009 Internet Explorer 9, the Evolution
While just a single month into the development of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft has opened up to participants at the Professional Developers Conference 2009 in Los Angeles, and subsequently to the world, revealing the first details about the next generation of IE.
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19.11.2009 Windows Internet Explorer 7 DOWNLOAD
Few days ago at RSA, Bill Gates talked about Internet Explorer 7. As the guy responsible for IE, I wanted to say a couple of things about it.
First, some basics: we’re committing to deliver a new version of Internet Explorer for Windows XP customers. Betas of IE7 will be available this summer. This new release will build on the work we did in Windows XP SP2 and (among other things) go further to defend users from phishing as well as deceptive or malicious software.
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Internet Explorer 7 Supports Punycode
Microsoft developers have disclosed technical details of the internationalized domain names (IDNs) support in the coming beta version of Internet Explorer.
This support is meant to ensure that the browser treat domain names with characters from outside the ASCII range of characters the same way it treats their Punycode equivalents. With the aid of a new tab labeled "International" in the Internet Control Panel a user will be able to disable the IDN support.
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22.12.2005 Internet Explorer 7 news + screenshots
Microsoft adds tabs, search, RSS and anti-phishing to IE 7.
Over all it seems a big improvement over the sloppy current release and previous incarnations. A lot of this, I put down to the increasing market share of
Firefox, my current browser of choice.
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10.1.2006 Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 download
This is Internet Explorer 7 Build 5299, which is labelled as "Beta 2 Preview". This is not necessarily (and almost definetely not) the actual final Beta 2 build, that we should see some time in Feb.
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22.1.2006 Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
Brief Description
Beta 2
The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages. This version is a preview release and behavior may change in the final release.
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7.2.2006 Internet Explorer 7 Will Not Be Integrated into Windows
BusinessWeek is reporting that Microsoft's next release of Internet Explorer, version 7, will not be integrated into Windows. Breaking nearly ten years of tradition, Internet Explorer was always very tightly integrated into Windows, allowing users to do such things as launch a website directly from any Windows Explorer window, or save a live web page as the desktop wallpaper.
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26.3.2006 Internet Explorer ActiveX update
Microsoft is releasing a software update to Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1).
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4.4.2006 Microsoft Explains "Internet Explorer 7+"
Microsoft has announced that its Vista-bundled browser will be renamed to 'Internet Explorer 7+' to help differentiate between the separate build for Windows XP.
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28.5.2006 Internet Explorer 7 and Automatic Updates
Microsoft plans to use its Automatic Updates patch-distribution service to push its stand-alone Internet Explorer 7.0 browser to customers once the product is ready to ship in the fourth quarter of this year.
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26.7.2006 Internet Explorer 7 RC1 next week?
Microsoft plans to release on next Wednesday, August 23, Internet Explorer 7 RC1 (Release Candidate 1).
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19.8.2Reporters booted from Black Hat Conference for hacking
Three French journalists have been shown the exit from the yearly hacking confab after it was discovered they were hacking into the press room's
Wi-Fi network...
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08.08.2008Web's Wonders Still Elude Many Users
A study that indicates that
lack of awareness and poor
usability are the key barriers
to a user's adoption of
Internet services from ISPs
may provide some relevance to
IT managers.
The survey was
commissioned by Montreal-based
Radialpoint, a provider of
managed Internet services to
ISPs, and found that nearly
half of polled Internet users
were unaware of the online
security services provided by
their ISP. Additionally,
almost 70 percent did not know
if their ISP provided music or
gaming services, and about one
third did not know if their
ISP provided any services
beside Internet access and
e-mail.
Scott
Plewes, founding partner of
usability consulting firm
Maskery, said the results of
the study are unsurprising. He
said that IT managers who
create Web-based systems or
applications often hear
similar feedback from their
customers. ..
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29.07.2007RIAA to stop suing users, cuts them off instead
RIAA has reached an agreement to stop suing individuals who continue to share music illegally, but will cut your internet connection off instead. The
decision was reached with ISP's to send a warning letter to individuals who have been suspected or caught by the RIAA, who will set up P2P
listening posts to catch individuals and submit their information to their ISP. After 2 or 3 warnings, your ISP will slow your internet connection,
and if a user continues to share music illegally, they will be shut off for good. RIAA has sued more than 35,000 people since they began operations
in 2003, which was very costly to the music industry and time consuming.
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19.12.2008Microsoft's Xbox Hacking Fix Backfires
In an attempt to prevent
hacking of the Xbox 360
console, Microsoft has not
only locked out those who have
hacked into the console, but
possibly others who have had
to send their consoles in for
repair that may have required
modifications...
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04.11.2006Frontier ISP toys with 5 GB usage cap
Small regional ISP Frontier Communications has now joined Time Warner Cable in floating the idea of instituting monthly user caps even for subscribers
who don't use much bandwidth, anyway...
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25.08.2008European tech leaders reject calls for ISP vigilance as 'scaremongering'
European ISP organizations are concerned that the cost of implementing proposals intended to reduce cybercrime could put them out of business, but a
leading security vendor said the cost of not doing anything could be even higher...
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03.07.2008Paris Hilton Hacker Sentenced
Teen gets 11 months'
detention for charming,
hacking data out of T-Mobile.
A Massachusetts juvenile has pleaded guilty to a January 2005 attack that ultimately exposed the cell phone address book of U.S. socialite Paris Hilton to the Internet, according to T-Mobile, the mobile phone provider whose servers were compromised in the attack.
The juvenile, who was not identified because of his age, has been sentenced to 11 months' detention, to be followed by two years of supervised release, for a series of hacking incidents and threats made over a 15-month period beginning in March 2004. He is also prohibited from using computers, cell phones, or any device capable of accessing the Internet during the period of this sentence...
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15.09.2005All major Canadian ISP's throttling P2P
It seems as if throttling P2P is now the thing to do if you're a major ISP. We first broke wind that Comcast was doing it and that the Australia
was putting the lock down on P2P and it now seems Canada is following suite. After allegations arose of P2P throttling "Bell, Cogeco, Rogers and
Eastlink all admit to slowing down P2P traffic, arguing that it negatively affects network performance." All of the ISP's claim the usual
argument that P2P degrades network performance. Like other ISP's, the Canadian ISP's forget that there is legitimate use in P2P technology
and that very popular games like WOW use it to help distribute patches and game updates.
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21.01.2009AOL Falls to Third Largest ISP
In yet another sign of the
ubiquity of broadband, AOL
said yesterday it now counts
only 12 million subscribers -
a far cry from the company's
peak of 26.7 million in 2002.
AOL is now only the third
largest ISP, behind both
AT&T and Comcast...
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03.05.2007Norway: Group takes ISP to court over The Pirate Bay
It seems the world is not yet finished in its attempt at wiping BitTorret search engine The Pirate Bay from the pages of internet history. According
to reports from PCWorld and MacWorld, a new trial begins today in which a group of copyright holders representing the entertainment industry have
taken a Norweigan service provider to court in a bid to have them block The Pirate Bay at the ISP level. In June this year, Telenor, the service
provider in question, received a petition for a temporary injunction from a group representing a number of copyright holders in an effort to have
Telenor block the site. To date, Telenor have refused to bar access.
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13.10.2009Canadian ISP tests injecting content into web pages
Advocates of
network neutrality frequently express concerns
that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will use sophisticated network filtering technologies that facilitate Deep Packet Inspection to track and
modify the content of web pages as they are being served to end users.
The ability to modify Internet content at the network
level could potentially be abused by ISPs to insert additional advertising into web pages or perform selective, automated censorship. Although no
mainstream ISP in North America engages in such practices, proponents of network neutrality have discovered that Rogersa Canadian cable Internet
provideris trialing similar technology to inject notices to subscribers in regular web content, leading some to fear that more abusive content
manipulation may occur in the future.
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11.12.2007The internet as a platform? Not as ISP bloodbath looms
After 15 years of utopian gibberish about the "internet as a platform" that (of course) "changes everything", the pigeons are finally flying home
to roost. In 2008, IP networks look less like the future of media, and more like tarpits that promise to bankrupt anyone who tries to run one.
Especially the middlemen - as the distributors look like going to the wall first.
These brutal economics are highlighted by a new
bulletin from Telco 2.0 today. The analyst outfit has looked at the early impact of the BBC's iPlayer streaming service, and has been modelling data
costs derived from the UK ISP Plusnet. The analysis makes grim reading for anyone who doesn't own and operate a major network.
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20.02.2008Security lab warns of possible Chinese ISP DNS exploit
An apparent case of DNS poisoning in the caches of a major China-based ISP is causing extra concern today, in light of security engineer Dan
Kaminsky's recent warnings about just how serious a cache poisoning exploit could become...
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23.08.2008Are ISP Subsidies Coming Back?
During the recession eight years ago, major retailers offered PCs anywhere from free to a few hundred dollars with typically three-year ISP
commitments. Major ISPs like AOL, Prodigy or MSN subsidized the discounts, which helped keep PCs selling at least during the recession's early
days. Another recession is upon us, with a new category of low-cost PC and another kind of ISP. Netbooks are cheap, light, tiny and increasingly
popular. Some newer models are wired up for wireless broadband via 3G services from carriers like AT&T. Netbooks are computers crying out to be
wired—ah, unwired—by 3G. Typical screen size ranges from 8.9-to-10.3 inches for a PC typically weighing 2-to-3 pounds. They're truly
ultraportable.
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10.12.2008Vista, MacBook Out--Only Linux Left in Hacking Contest
The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony Vaio,
that remained undefeated as conference organizers ended a three-way computer hacking challenge Friday at the CanSecWest conference.
<...> It took two days of work, but Shane Macaulay, finally cracked the Vista box on Friday, with a little help from his friends.
Macaulay, who was a co-winner of last year's hacking contest, needed a few hacking tricks courtesy of VMware researcher Alexander Sotirov to make
his bug work. That's because Macaulay hadn't been expecting to attack the Service Pack 1 version of Vista, which comes with additional security
measures. He also got a little help from co-worker Derek Callaway.
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29.03.2008ISP Dispute Over - For Now
UPDATED Can't we all
just get along? Cogent and
Level 3 Communications
customers may be asking that
question after a spat between
the two Internet backbone
companies earlier this week
resulted in portions of the
Net becoming unavailable to
customers of the other carrier
for several days...
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08.10.2005Time Warner lobbies government to cripple community ISP
The incredible wave of negative publicity from Time Warner's (now postponed) plan for bandwidth caps on all of their broadband internet plans has
barely died down. That isn't stopping the increasingly despised ISP from giving people another reason to hate them, though. This time around, Time
Warner is lobbying the North Carolina state senate to pass laws that would cripple highly competitive community broadband providers and even
disqualify them from receiving federal aid from the proposed national stimulus plan. A while back, the city of Wilson, North Carolina approached
both Time Warner and local provider Embarq asking them to provide higher internet access speeds to residents of the city.
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23.04.2009Hacking programmable road signs
Many citizens might notice the construction digital road signs on the side of the road while driving, indicating important information such as road
closures or traffic delays, but what if the sign included information such as "Zombies ahead" or "this sign has been hacked". (image courtesy of
i-hacked.com) These digital road signs can be compromised as easily as breaking into them. A viral video shows the possibility of future sign
hacking with a laptop and a Nokia N95. A user has posted pictures of how to break into the digital road signs on www.i-hacked.com, teaching users how
to access and change the sign information.
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28.01.2009IBM criticizes TippingPoint over hacking contest
IBM's ISS division
has torn into rival
TippingPoint for sponsoring
the hacking contest that led
to the disclosure of a
QuickTime vulnerability in
Apple's Safari
browser.
Such criticism isn't new.
Two Gartner analysts, Rich
Mogull and Greg Young, made
the same point last week in
their analysis of April's
CanSecWest security
conference, which saw $10,000
put up as a prize for managing
to hack Apple computers in an
open challenge.
The
hole that allowed hacking
challenger Dino Dai Zovi to
win the prize, turned out to
be a potentially serious
unpatched vulnerability
affecting all OS X computers.
TippingPoint said that Apple
would be informed privately,
but others have pointed out
this is no guarantee that the
exploit information could not
have made it into the public
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13.05.2007The Pirate Bay officially sunk
Today marks victory for Swedish authorities and Hollywood and a sad day for file sharing. Today the Swedish Authorities have ordered The Pirate Bay
to be taken offline immediately or the ISP could face heavy fines of 500,000 Kroner ($70,600 US) a day. The Pirate Bay's ISP had no choice
but to comply and disconnect the website from the Internet. The take down of The Pirate Bay comes 3 days earlier than expected, as the site was going
offline on August 27 or legalize the site before then, which was unlikely to happen.
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