Topic: WEB - on January 7, 2012 at 12:10:00 PM CET
Internet Access Is Not a Human Right
FROM the streets of Tunis to Tahrir Square and beyond, protests around the world last year were built on the Internet and the many devices that interact with it. Though the demonstrations thrived because thousands of people turned out to participate, they could never have happened as they did without the ability that the Internet offers to communicate, organize and publicize everywhere, instantaneously.
It is no surprise, then, that the protests have raised questions about whether Internet access is or should be a civil or human right. The issue is particularly acute in countries whose governments clamped down on Internet access in an attempt to quell the protesters. In June, citing the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, a report by the United Nations’ special rapporteur went so far as to declare that the Internet had “become an indispensable tool for realizing a range of human rights.” Over the past few years, courts and parliaments in countries like France and Estonia have pronounced Internet access a human right.
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Topic: WEB - on December 27, 2011 at 9:28:00 AM CET
GoDaddy Accused of Stifling Domain Movers
Domain registrar GoDaddy may have dropped its official support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), but this ugly chapter is far from over. According to competing registrar Namecheap, GoDaddy is doing all it can to hamper the flow of domains away from its service. Namecheap claims that GoDaddy’s actions violate ICANN rules, but is promising to work with potential customers to get their domains moved.
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Topic: WEB - on December 20, 2011 at 1:38:00 PM CET
Afghanistan to Hollywood: Best Newsy Viral Videos of 2011
Compiling this year's list of the best viral videos proved a slightly more difficult task than just finding cute kittehs and epic fails. In 2011, it seemed, viral videos weren't just watched as a fun distraction from the more somber daily news — they were the news.
From uprisings in Egypt to the end of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," online video did about as much to inform us about what was happening outside our cubicles as anything.
For example, anyone could read any of a dozen news stories about Occupy protests popping up around the country (and around the world), but do those reports spark the same reaction as watching Lt. John Pike pepper-spray students on the campus of the University of California at Davis? Did anything symbolize the relief of LGBT servicemen and women at the end of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" more completely than Air Force airman Randy Phillips finally showing his face on YouTube? Most likely not.
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Topic: WEB - on December 13, 2011 at 12:30:00 PM CET
HTML5 – Die größten Gefahren
HTML5 stellt die fünfte Revision der am meisten verbreiteten Markup-Sprache für die Erstellung von Webseiten dar. Es handelt sich dabei nicht um ein Upgrade, wie man es üblicherweise kennt, sondern um eine ganze Reihe von Features, jedes mit unterschiedlicher Browser-Unterstützung. Zu den wichtigsten Neuerungen gehören eine Grafikbibliothek, einfachere Unterstützung von multimedialen Inhalten, Geolocation, Drag & Drop-Funktionalität sowie Web-Benachrichtigungen. So mächtig die Neuerungen auch sind, so gefährlich können sie den Nutzern werden. Denn sie bieten nicht nur den Web-Entwicklern neue Möglichkeiten, sondern auch der kriminelle Untergrund wird sie für seine bösen Zwecke missbrauchen.
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Topic: WEB - on December 13, 2011 at 10:10:00 AM CET
Adblock Plus Will Soon Block Fewer Ads
AdBlock Plus, the popular ad-blocking plugin for Firefox and Chrome, will soon stop blocking “non-intrusive” ads by default. AdBlock Plus, of course, became as popular as it is today because it scrubbed websites from intrusive, loud ads and pop-ups that can make surfing the web such a hassle if you mistakenly end up on the wrong site.
According to an announcement by the plugin’s developer Wladimir Palant, the idea behind this change is to allow users to “support websites that rely on advertising but choose to do it in a non-intrusive way. […] In the long term the web will become a better place for everybody, not only Adblock Plus users. Without this feature we run the danger that increasing Adblock Plus usage will make small websites unsustainable.”
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Topic: WEB - on December 2, 2011 at 4:45:00 PM CET
Simple Google search unlocks GCHQ code-cracking competition
GCHQ's "Can You Crack It?" website, designed to help recruit talented codebreakers for the British government department, is getting lots of attention from the media and bloggers - but some of that may be unwanted.
A number of bloggers and Twitter users have pointed out that GCHQ appears to have done rather a poor job at locking down the website, making it child's play for anyone to visit the webpage you're only supposed to see if you've successfully cracked the code.
sophos.com GCHQ challenges codebreakers via social networks GCHQ: solve the online code, become a real-life spy
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Topic: WEB - on December 1, 2011 at 2:31:00 PM CET
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Topic: WEB - on October 26, 2011 at 2:11:00 PM CEST
THC-SSL-DOS tool targets secure connections
The THC-SSL-DOS tool, which was released today, purportedly exploits a flaw in Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) renegotiation protocol by overwhelming the system with multiple requests for secure connections. SSL renegotiation allows websites to create a new security key over an already established SSL connection.
A German group known as Hackers Choice said that it released the exploit to bring attention to flaws in SSL, which allows sensitive data to flow between websites and an individual user's computer without being intercepted.
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Topic: WEB - on October 26, 2011 at 2:09:00 PM CEST
How secure is HTTPS today? How often is it attacked?
HTTPS is a lot more secure than HTTP! If a site uses accounts, or publishes material that people might prefer to read in private, the site should be protected with HTTPS.
Unfortunately, is still feasible for some attackers to break HTTPS. Leaving aside cryptographic protocol vulnerabilities, there are structural ways for its authentication mechanism to be fooled for any domain, including mail.google.com, www.citibank.com, www.eff.org, addons.mozilla.org, or any other incredibly sensitive service.
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Topic: WEB - on July 24, 2011 at 12:13:00 PM CEST
Verschärftes Vorgehen gegen Anonymous-Aktivisten
Seien wir doch mal ehrlich: DDoS-Attacken sind ziemlicher Pipifax im Vergleich zu Massenleaks, dem Hacken von Servern der Bundespolizei oder Playstation-Netzwerken. Sie erfordern keine besonderen Fähigkeiten und sind sogar eigentlich ziemlich ehrlich, weil sie von den meisten (nur) ohne Anonymisierung vorgenommen werden (können).
Vor allem in den letzten 12 Monaten hat sich die gemeinschaftliche DDoS-Attacke immer mehr als Protestform herauskristallisiert. Das lag vor allem an ihrer medialen Wirkung: “Anonyme Hacker attackieren Mastercard, Visa & Amazon” landet unter Garantie auf Seite 1. Das ist der gewünschte Effekt einer Demonstration – auch wenn das nicht heißt, dass der Effekt auch unbedingt positiv sein muss.
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Topic: WEB - on July 24, 2011 at 12:01:00 PM CEST
New Firefox Add-on Warns You About The Dangers Of The Murdoch Propaganda Machine
NewsCorp agents in multiple countries have been arrested for hacking into the phones and computers of at least thousands of innocent people. Since the Murdoch family controls 100+ high-traffic domains, it is difficult for average users to know which sites could potentially place them at risk.
MurdochAlert identifies the domains that may place users at risk for Murdoch-related hacking. MurdochAlert shows a bottom warning box whenever you visit a Murdoch-controlled sited.
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Topic: WEB - on June 10, 2011 at 7:42:00 AM CEST
Don't Even Think About It, Anonymous Warns NATO
Anybody who thinks that Anonymous is just a bunch of harmless script kiddies playing around on their mom's computer hasn't been following the news recently. The US recently said it would put a hurting on hackers that threatened the nation, and earlier this week, NATO published a special report on cybersecurity. A big chunk of it was spent describing the threat of everyone's favorite hacker collective. The longer Anonymous continues its hijinks, the more likely they'd be "infiltrated and perpetrators persecuted," the report warned. Anonymous' response showed its characteristic sense of style.
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