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. common - comments - 7.9.2007
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. common - comments -
A Briton accused of hacking into top secret military computers has lost a Law Lords appeal against being extradited to stand trial in the US. common - comments - 30.7.2008
As reported by Techworld, Snow Leopard, Apple's highly anticipated new operating system, lacks basic security features that are found in Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 says Charlie Miller, a noted security researcher. common - comments - 17.9.2009
Faced with a security crisis affecting its media player, Apple responds with key exploit prevention mechanisms aimed at thwarting hacker attacks. common - comments - 13.4.2008
Thomas Dullien, a prominent security researcher who has been a fixture at the annual Black Hat security conference, has been denied entry into the U.S. to attend and conduct training at this year’s confab. common - comments - 30.7.2007
You may remember that the Pwn2Own competition was run recently, designed to reveal hidden security flaws within browsers and operating systems. Charlie Miller, who was one of the competitors in the competition, has come out with a rather controversial statement: Mac OS is theoretically safer than PCs. microsoft - comments - 27.3.2009
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... betanews.com - 25.08.2008
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... betanews.com - 03.07.2008
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.
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... betanews.com - 03.05.2007
Apple's iPhone is rather popular for a few reasons, and one of those is 'jailbreaking'; that is, freeing your device from Apple's
limitations and installing any software desired. However, it's not all good news, as a hacker has recently broken into some phones and demanded a
ransom. The hacker broke into a few unwary Dutch iPhone users' phones, after they made the mistake of leaving their SSH password default, as
initially discovered in this thread (in Dutch). According to Ars Technica, the hacker then sent SMS messages from the phones in question stating,
"You iPhone's been hacked because it's really insecure! Please visit doiop.com/iHacked and secure
your iPhone right now!
Valance Media, the company
which runs Torrentspy.com, has
accused the Motion Picture
Association of America of
hiring a hacker to attempt to
collect private information
about the website, including
e-mail and trade secrets... betanews.com - 26.05.2006
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... betanews.com - 23.08.2008
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.
A British hacker who admitted hacking into Pentagon and NASA computers searching for evidence of extraterrestrial life has lost his latest extradition
appeal. After fighting the case for more than six years in UK courts, the British House of Lords officially dismissed his appeal... betanews.com - 31.07.2008
British ISP TalkTalk has threatened legal action over Lord Mandelson's plan for a three-strike policy against file-sharers. The second largest ISP
in the UK believes the plan constitutes an infringement of human rights as the plan is "based on the principle of guilty until proven innocent".
BT, the largest ISP in the UK said that it "remains concerned" about the plans and is "interested to hear whether or not customers will have some
form of fair legal hearing before their broadband supplier is required to take any action against them".
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. .. winbeta.org - 29.07.2007
Promises of Hollywood fame and fortune persuaded a young hacker to betray former associates in the BitTorrent scene to Tinseltowns anti-piracy lobby,
according to the hacker.
In an exclusive interview with Wired News, gun-for-hire hacker Robert Anderson tells for the first time how the
Motion Picture Association of America promised him money and power if he provided confidential information on TorrentSpy, a popular BitTorrent search
site.
According to Anderson, the MPAA told him: "We would need somebody like you. We would give you a nice paying job, a house, a car,
anything you needed.... if you save Hollywood for us you can become rich and powerful."
In 2005, the MPAA paid Anderson $15,000
for inside information about TorrentSpy -- information at the heart of a copyright-infringement lawsuit brought by the MPAA against TorrentSpy of Los
Angeles. The material is also the subject of a wiretapping countersuit against the MPAA brought by TorrentSpys founder, Justin Bunnell, who alleges
the information was obtained illegally.
News Corp, the media conglomerate thats parent to a number of New and Old Media properties including the Wall Street Journal, MySpace and Fox News
Channel, may be subject to a stunning billion dollar civil judgement against them soon, based on the testimony of a hacker described by the Dish
Networks attorney Chad Hagan as one of the "two best hackers in the world."
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.
U2's manager might love the idea of legally-mandated filtering, but the head of the RIAA says that there's no need for such an approach in the
US. The RIAA still wants to see a thousand filters bloom, of course, but it holds out hope for a "marketplace solution" to the issue. Cary Sherman,
the RIAA chief, made his comments today at a Washington, DC tech conference where he expressed his differences with U2 manager Paul McGuinness.
McGuinness generated applause in Cannes this week at a music industry event by calling for mandatory content filtering at the ISP level. "Paul is
European," said Sherman, according to CNet, "and in Europe there has been much more of a regulatory approach to these issues."
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.
Website encryption has sustained another body blow, this time by an independent hacker who demonstrated a tool that can steal sensitive information by
tricking users into believing they're visiting protected sites when in fact they're not...
Whiz kid Shane Kelly is a world-record breaker -- at the tender age of 16.
Shane has left older rivals across the globe standing
by becoming the world's youngest ethical hacker, five years ahead of schedule.
The Solihull College student is the youngest
person on the planet to successfully complete a Certified Ethical Hacker course, which normally requires students to be at least 21.
The teenager, from Solihull, pulled off the remarkable achievement despite suffering from years of torment at the hands of school bullies -- and
being diagnosed a diabetic.
More than 60 Web sites certified to be "Hacker Safe" by McAfee's ScanAlert service have been vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks over
the past year, including the ScanAlert Web site itself. While the XSS hole in the ScanAlert site and others have been addressed, some apparently have
not, leaving visitors potentially vulnerable to client-side attacks.
Joseph Pierini, director of enterprise services for the
ScanAlert "Hacker Safe" program, maintains that XSS vulnerabilities can't be used to hack a server.
Still, Kevin Fernandez and
Dimitris Pagkalos, two computer scientists who maintain XSSed.com, a site that has been tracking XSS vulnerabilities since February 2007, provided
InformationWeek with a list of 62 Web sites certified as "Hacker Safe" on which XSS holes have been reported. The list includes brookstone.com,
cafepress.com, cduniverse.com, gnc.com, mysecurewallet.nl, petsmart.com, and sportsauthority.com, among other familiar brands.
If you've got an iPhone, pretty much everything you have done on your handset has been temporarily
stored as a screenshot that hackers or forensics experts could eventually recover, according to a renowned iPhone hacker who exposed the security flaw
in a webcast Thursday.
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