Topic: WEB - on November 17, 2007 at 9:53:00 AM CET
Will There Be A New Bittorrent?
At the end of October one of the admins of the world's largest Bittorrent site sat down for an interview and predicted the protocol's demise. Citing Bittorrent, Inc.'s corporate ties and some technical limitations, brokep announced that The Pirate Bay was working on a new protocol to succeed Bram Cohen's Bittorrent. The idea's been percolating throughout the filesharing scene since then: a small survey of top site admins conducted by TorrentFreak found opinion divided over whether Bittorrent will be replaced.
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Topic: WEB - on November 16, 2007 at 12:17:00 PM CET
Hunt for Russia's web criminals
A curious game of cat and mouse is being played out on the internet, as high-tech hunters close in on a group of cybercriminals known as the Russian Business Network, or RBN. The chase started a week ago when the RBN - a Russian ISP alleged to be behind much of today's web crime - slipped its internet moorings in the Baltic coastal city of St Petersburg and made for servers in China.
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Topic: WEB - on November 16, 2007 at 12:14:00 PM CET
Tor embassy 'hacker' raided by Swedish Feds
A security researcher who revealed how the email accounts of embassies were exposed through the misuse of the Tor anonymiser network has been taken in for questioning by Swedish intelligence agencies.
Dan Egerstad used Tor to obtain the login credentials of about 1,000 email addresses, including at least 100 accounts belonging to foreign embassies, as well as those of large corporations and human rights organisations. Egerstad posted the login details of embassies belonging to Iran, India, Japan, and Russia, among others, in late August. The information, posted on derangedsecurity.com, has since been taken offline. Egerstad disclosed details of how he pulled off the hack in September.
theregister.co.uk smh.com.au Patrick Gray's interviews with Dan Egerstad and Sam Stover can be heard in his podcast from
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Topic: WEB - on November 11, 2007 at 11:20:00 AM CET
WikipediaVision
Anonymous edits to Wikipedia (almost) in real-time.
WikipediaVision is a visualization of edits to the English (and the German, French, Spanish) Wikipedia, almost the same time as they happen. The idea came after seeing flickervision and twittervision, both created by David Troy. WikipediaVision, however, was designed and implemented by me alone.
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Topic: WEB - on November 10, 2007 at 10:39:00 AM CET
Botmaster owns up to 250,000 zombie PCs
An American computer security consultant on Friday admitted using massive botnets to illegally install software on at least 250,000 machines and steal online banking identities of Windows users by evesdropping on them while they made financial transactions.
John Kenneth Schiefer, 26, of Los Angeles, pleaded guilty to four felonies, including accessing protected computers to conduct fraud, disclosing illegally intercepted electronic communications, wire fraud and bank fraud. He faces a maximum sentence of 60 years in federal prison and a fine of $1.75m, according to documents filed Friday in federal court.
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Topic: WEB - on November 10, 2007 at 10:37:00 AM CET
IndiaTimes website 'attacks visitors'
Visitors to the IndiaTimes website are being bombarded by malware, some of which appear to target previously unknown vulnerabilities in Windows, a security researcher warns.
In all, the English-language Indian news site is directly or indirectly serving up at least 434 malicious files, many of which are not detected by antivirus software, according to Mary Landesman, a senior security researcher at ScanSafe. She said at least 18 different IP addresses are involved in the attack.
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Topic: WEB - on November 9, 2007 at 1:54:00 PM CET
Demonoid Shuts Down Again
Demonoid.com, one of the most popular BitTorrent trackers, was forced to go offline again because the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) threatened their ISP.
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Topic: WEB - on November 9, 2007 at 1:53:00 PM CET
Prosecutor Announces Charges Against The Pirate Bay
Prosecutor Håkan Roswall announced that he plans to press charges against 5 people involved with The Pirate Bay before January 31, 2008. The 5 are suspected of facilitating copyright infringement.
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Topic: WEB - on November 9, 2007 at 11:52:00 AM CET
The World's Biggest Botnets
You know about the Storm Trojan, which is spread by the world's largest botnet. But what you may not know is there's now a new peer-to-peer based botnet emerging that could blow Storm away.
"We're investigating a new peer-to-peer botnet that may wind up rivaling Storm in size and sophistication," says Tripp Cox, vice president of engineering for startup Damballa, which tracks botnet command and control infrastructures. "We can't say much more about it, but we can tell it's distinct from Storm."
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Topic: WEB - on November 9, 2007 at 11:50:00 AM CET
Website for computer security experts hacked
First Forensic Forum - a UK based association of computer security professionals - has been hacked.
F3.org's website was defaced (screen shot here) with a message poking fun at the association of computer forensic experts. The timing of the defacement on Thursday was fortuitous (or well planned) since the organisation is coming to the end of a two day conference.
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Topic: WEB - on November 8, 2007 at 12:37:00 PM CET
Digg close to a $300 million sale
Digg is close to announcing its sale to a major media player for $300 million to $400 million, according to sources close to the company, I hear. When I floated this Digg rumor past some knowledgeable friends, several scoffed: "When isn't Digg up for sale?" It's true: The news-discussion site is perpetually in talks -- but we hear the price tag always sinks potential deals before they're consummated.
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Topic: WEB - on November 7, 2007 at 10:41:00 AM CET
Would You Want Broadband-By-Soviet-Spy-Plane?
For many years, we've been hearing all sorts of bizarre and crazy ideas for different methods of offering broadband. A popular one tends to be with flying devices of some sort. For a while we heard all sorts of stories about hideous-looking floating blimps called stratellites that would get press every six months or so, but which never actually launched anywhere.
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