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| SONY, UNIVERSAL AND FOX CAUGHT PIRATING THROUGH BITTORRENT | 2011-12-15 23:21:18 |
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n nNew submitter Bad_Feeling sends in a followup to the story we discussed on Monday about a new site that scanned a few popular torrent trackers and linked torrents to IP addresses. The folks at TorrentFreak decided to check IP addresses belonging to major companies in the entertainment industry and published lists of pirated files from several, including Fox, Sony, and NBC Universal. Of course, they used the information to make a slightly different point than the industry usually does: `By highlighting the above our intention is not to get anyone into trouble, and for that reason we masked out the end of the IP addresses to avoid a witch hunt. An IP address is not a person, IP addresses can be shared among many people, and anyone can be behind a keyboard at any given time.`n nn Read more of this story at Slashdot.n
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| A QUARTER OF THE EU HAS NEVER USED THE WEB | 2011-12-15 23:20:14 |
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n nsmitty777 writes `Reuters reports that a quarter of the EU has yet to use the internet. Further, half of those in some of the southern and western states do not even have internet access at home. From the article: `As well as highlighting geographic disparities across one of the world`s most-developed regions, the figures underline the lack of opportunity people in poorer communities have to take part in advances such as the Internet that have delivered lower cost goods and service to millions of people.` The full report created by Eurostat can be found here.`n nn Read more of this story at Slashdot.n
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| MICROSOFT UPGRADING WINDOWS USERS TO LATEST VERSION OF MSIE | 2011-12-15 23:18:46 |
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n nhelix2301 writes `Microsoft will be upgrading all Windows XP, Vista and 7 users to the latest IE silently. They are doing this because they have found a large number of non-patched systems. Microsoft pointed out that Chrome and Firefox do this regularly. They will start with Australia and Brazil in January, then go world-wide after they have assured there are no issues.`n nn Read more of this story at Slashdot.n
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| STUDY SHOWS MANY SITES STILL FAILING BASIC SECURITY MEASURES | 2011-12-13 00:46:57 |
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n nOrome1 writes with a summary of a large survey of web applications by Veracode. From the article: `Considered `low hanging fruit` because of their prevalence in software applications, XSS and SQL Injection are two of the most frequently exploited vulnerabilities, often providing a gateway to customer data and intellectual property. When applying the new analysis criteria, Veracode reports eight out of 10 applications fail to meet acceptable levels of security, marking a significant decline from past reports. Specifically for web applications, the report showed a high concentration of XSS and SQL Injection vulnerabilities, with XSS present in 68 percent of all web applications and SQL Injection present in 32 percent of all web applications.`n nn Read more of this story at Slashdot.n
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| MICROSOFT CAN REMOTELY KILL PURCHASED APPS | 2011-12-13 00:30:09 |
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n nMeshach writes `The terms of service for Microsoft`s newly launched Windows Store allows the seller to remotely kill or remove access to a user`s apps for security or legal reasons. The story also notes that MS states purchasers are responsible for backing up the data that you store in apps that you acquire via the Windows Store, including content you upload using those apps. If the Windows Store, an app, or any content is changed or discontinued, your data could be deleted or you may not be able to retrieve data you have stored.`n nn Read more of this story at Slashdot.n
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| PC MAKERS RUN SHORT OF POPULAR DRIVES | 2011-12-13 00:28:42 |
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n nLucas123 writes `The impact from the monsoonal flooding in Thailand over the past three months is now being felt by users as computer system manufacturers are unable to meet supply needs. Lenovo told its corporate customers this week that is has run out of a number of drives including several types of 7200rpm and 5400rpm HDDs. `Akin to the hysteria when banks defaulted in the 1930[s], PC orders across the industry are being placed for which HD supply does not exist,` a Lenovo rep wrote to his clients. IDC this week said the HDD shortages that have resulted from the flooding of four major Thailand industrial parks will likely be felt into 2013. Western Digital and Toshiba have been hit the hardest. PC shipments are also expected to fall short by 3.8 million units in the first quarter of 2012 due to component supply shortages. Meanwhile, there has been some indication of retail HDD price stabilization, but for some of the most popular hard drives prices continue to soar.`n nn Read more of this story at Slashdot.n
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| GOOGLE-FUNDED STUDY KNOCKS FIREFOX SECURITY | 2011-12-13 00:28:08 |
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n nSparrowvsrevolution writes `Researchers at the security firm Accuvant released a study Friday that gauges the security features of the top three web browsers. Accuvant admits the study was funded by Google, and naturally, Chrome came out on top. More surprising is that Internet Explorer was rated nearly as secure as Chrome, while Firefox is described as lacking many modern security safeguards. Though the study seems to have been performed objectively, it won`t help Google`s fraying partnership with Mozilla.` The full research document is available here (PDF), and it goes into much greater detail than the Forbes article. Accuvant also published the tools and data they used in the study, which should help to evaluate their objectivity.n nn Read more of this story at Slashdot.n
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| LIGHTSQUARED DISRUPTS 75% OF GPS CONNECTIONS IN GOVERNMENT TEST | 2011-12-13 00:25:01 |
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n nFreddybear writes with this quote from BusinessWeek: `Philip Falcone`s proposed LightSquared Inc. wireless service caused interference to 75 percent of global-positioning system receivers examined in a U.S. government test, according to a draft summary of results. ... The tests worked off an `extraordinarily conservative` threshold and didn`t show the devices` performance was affected, [LightSquared exec Martin Harriman said]. `If we`re affecting the performance of the device - my goodness, we`d like to be sure that doesn`t happen,` Harriman said. The laboratory testing was performed for the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Systems Engineering Forum, an executive branch body that helps advise policy makers on issues around GPS. It found that 69 of 92, or 75 percent, of receivers tested `experienced harmful interference` at the equivalent of 100 meters (109 yards) from a LightSquared base station.`n nn Read more of this story at Slashdot.n
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| ADOBE WARNS OF CRITICAL ZERO DAY VULNERABILITY | 2011-12-06 23:56:21 |
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n nwiredmikey writes `Adobe issued an advisory today on a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2011-2462) that has come under attack in the wild. According to Adobe, the issue is a U3D memory corruption vulnerability that can be exploited to cause a crash and permit an attacker to hijack a system. So far, there are reports the vulnerability is being exploited in limited, targeted attacks against Adobe Reader 9.x on Windows. However, the bug also affects Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.4.6 and earlier 9.x versions for UNIX and Macintosh computers, as well as Adobe Reader X (10.1.1) and Acrobat X (10.1.1) and earlier 10.x versions on Windows and Mac. Patches for Windows and Mac users of Adobe Reader X and Acrobat X will come on the next quarterly update, scheduled for Jan. 10, 2012.`n nn Read more of this story at Slashdot.n
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| CARRIER IQ DRAMA CONTINUES | 2011-12-04 10:42:53 |
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n nalphadogg writes `A Cornell University professor is calling the controversial Carrier IQ smartphone software revelations a privacy disaster. `This is my worst nightmare,` says Stephen Wicker, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cornell. `As a professor who studies electronic security, this is everything that I have been working against for the last 10 years. It is an utterly appalling invasion of privacy with immense potential for manipulation and privacy theft that requires immediate federal intervention.`` Read on for a grab-bag of other news about the ongoing story of Carrier IQ`s spyware.n nn Read more of this story at Slashdot.n
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| INSIDE FACEBOOK`S CYBER-SECURITY SYSTEM | 2011-10-27 20:14:00 |
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n nAn anonymous reader writes `The Facebook Immunity System (FIS) processes and checks 25 billion actions every day, or 650,000 actions every second. The social networking giant`s cybersecurity system was developed over a three-year period to keep the service`s users safe from spam and cyberattacks. FIS scans every click on Facebook for patterns that could suggest something malicious is spreading across the social network.`n nn Read more of this story at Slashdot.n
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| HP KEEPING THEIR PC BUSINESS | 2011-10-27 18:35:00 |
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n nFirst time accepted submitter yourlord writes `Hewlett-Packard Co. has decided to keep its PC division. So says its newly appointed CEO Meg Whitman. Whitman, the former eBay chieftain, categorically rejected a plan offered up by her predecessor, former CEO Leo Apotheker, to either sell or spin-off this division. HP announced the decision after the close of financial markets today.`n nn Read more of this story at Slashdot.n
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| RURAL BROADBAND TO REPLACE POTS AS BENEFICIARY OF US GOV`T SUBSIDIES | 2011-10-27 16:12:00 |
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n nIDG reports that `The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to overhaul a decades-old system of telephone subsidies in rural areas, with the funding refocused on broadband deployment. The FCC`s vote Thursday would transition the Universal Service Fund`s (USF`s) high-cost program, now subsidizing voice service, to a new Connect America Fund focused on broadband deployment to areas that don`t yet have service. The FCC will cap the broadband fund at $4.5 billion a year, the current budget of the USF high-cost program, funded by a tax on telephone bills.` That cap, says Reuters, is `the first budget constraint ever imposed on the program.`n nn Read more of this story at Slashdot.n
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| HACKERS BRIEFLY CONTROLLED US GOVERNMENT SATELLITES | 2011-10-27 13:42:00 |
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n nOrome1 writes `Two U.S. satellites have been tampered with by hackers - possibly Chinese ones - in 2007 and 2008, claims a soon-to-be released report by the the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. The two satellites, Landsat-7 and Terra AM-1, had been interfered with on four separate occasions, allowing the attackers to be in command of the satellites for two to over twelve minutes each time. Luckily, both of the satellites are used only for observing the Earth`s climate and terrain, and the hackers never actually misused their control over them in any way.`n nn Read more of this story at Slashdot.n
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| EXPERT: DUQU IS A CUSTOM ATTACK FRAMEWORK | 2011-10-26 13:03:00 |
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n nTrailrunner7 writes `All of the hype about Duqu being the next Stuxnet obscured many of the real facts about the new malware. It turns out that Duqu not only is essentially a customizable attack framework with separate modules for each target, but that it has been found on high-value networks in Iran and the Sudan. A detailed analysis of the Duqu malware files by Alex Gostev of Kaspersky Lab shows that the malware uses different drivers and modules for every target. `It is obvious that every single Duqu incident is unique with its own unique files using different names and checksums. Duqu is used for targeted attacks with carefully selected victims,` Gostev said.`n nn Read more of this story at Slashdot.n
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| NEW VERSION OF PROTECT IP BILL MAY TARGET LEGAL SITES | 2011-10-26 08:15:00 |
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n nangry tapir writes `An upcoming version [PDF] of U.S. legislation designed to combat copyright infringement on the Web may include provisions that hold online services such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube legally responsible for infringing material posted by users, according to one group opposed to the bill. `If Demand Progress is correct about the House version of PROTECT IP, the bill would overturn parts of the 13-year-old Digital Millennium Copyright Act that protect websites and ISPs from copyright lawsuits for the infringing activity of their users.``n nn Read more of this story at Slashdot.n
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| NEW ATTACK TOOL EXPLOITS SSL RENEGOTIATION BUG | 2011-10-26 00:01:00 |
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n nTrailrunner7 writes `A group of researchers has released a tool that they say implements a denial-of-service attack against SSL servers by triggering a huge number of SSL renegotiations, eventually consuming all of the server`s resources and making it unavailable. The tool exploits a widely known issue with the way that SSL connections work. The attack tool, released by a group called The Hacker`s Choice, is meant to exploit the fact that it takes a lot of server resources to handle SSL handshakes at the beginning of a session, and that if a client or series of clients sends enough session requests to a given server, the server will at some point fail. The condition can be worsened when SSL renegotiation is enabled on a server. SSL renegotiation is used in a number of scenarios, but most commonly when there is a need for a client-side certificate. The authors of the tool say that the attack will work on servers without SSL renegotiation enabled, but with some modifications.`n nn Read more of this story at Slashdot.n
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| DNA MAY CARRY A MEMORY OF YOUR LIVING CONDITIONS FROM CHILDHOOD | 2011-10-25 17:29:00 |
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n nAn anonymous reader writes `Canadian and British scientists have found that how rich your family was when you were a kid - as judged by wealth, housing conditions and occupation of parents - has a huge impact on your current DNA. `This is the first time we`ve been able to make the link between the economics of early life and the biochemistry of DNA,` says Moshe Szyf, professor of pharmacology at McGill University. The study did not show whether the DNA changes identified are passed on to offspring, but if so, repeat cycles of poverty could be putting poor children at a serious disadvantage for heart disease, diabetes and lung disorders.`n nn Read more of this story at Slashdot.n
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| VERIZON ANNOUNCES PORT 25 BLOCKING | 2009-09-08 14:34:25 |
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Users of Verizon Internet may have received recently an email informing them that they will begin blocking access to port 25 on October 13th. Port 25 is the standard SMTP port that is used for sending email from clients like Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Pegasus and numerous others. If you are not using Verizon`s email servers, for instance if you have your own domain hosted with IPTIA or MABB, and are on Verizon`s network (ie DSL, FiOS), you will need to make a change to the configuration of your mail client(s) as indicated below. However, instead of the `suggested` port 587, please instead use port 26, as this is the `alternate smtp port` IPTIA servers have used for many years. This change was not unexpected, as other providers like Comcast and Cox have been blocking port 25 for some time. These large-scale providers do this type of thing because they do not have the resources (ie desire and ability) to properly police their networks for spammers. Instead they subvert 40-year-old standards and inconvenience their client base, including those never involved in sending SPAM. The following classes of users (excluding WebMail-only users) WILL need to make the change: The second group includes Federal, State and local government users as well as many corporate users working from remote. User`s hosting their own mail servers on Verizon`s network will be completely out of luck, and should contact an external mail/web hosting provider like IPTIA for service. |
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| WELCOME MABB CUSTOMERS! | 2009-05-26 14:54:32 |
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Transfer of operational duties for MABB hosting customers to IPTIA is complete! New customers have been added to and configured on the IPTIA support site. If you need assistance and/or have forgotten or misplaced your password, please use this link to contact IPTIA support! |
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| IPTIA OPENS NEW HOSTING FACILITY | 2009-04-29 13:43:15 |
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IPTIA has opened a new hosting facility in the Fredericksburg Area. This facility boasts 24/7 environmental and network monitoring, 48-hour generator/battery power backup, and new state-of-theart servers. In the coming weeks, existing IPTIA hosting customers will be offered the opportunity to migrate their sites to this facility at, in most cases, no additional cost. |
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| IPTIA UPGRADES MAIL SERVERS | 2009-04-29 13:42:53 |
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IPTIA`s mail servers have been upgraded to include a much more robust WebMail system. Enhancements include a more intuitive SPAM filtering system, unlimited mailing lists, and a whole lot more. Enjoy! |
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| IPTIA ADOPTS OCR TECHNIQUES | 2009-04-29 13:42:18 |
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In our continuing efforts to identify and block SPAM messages, IPTIA is pleased to announce the successful implementation of image-based scanning of all attached graphics. All graphics file attached to incoming email messages are now checked for SPAM content along with the standard message text.
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| IPTIA ADOPTS NEW CUSTOMER BASE | 2009-04-15 13:47:33 |
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IPTIA will be taking over all support, management, and accounting duties for the hosting division of MidAtlantic BroadBand. We are tentatively set to make the transition on or around May 1st, 2009.
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| NEW DNS SERVER ADDED | 2008-11-12 13:47:09 |
IPTIA has established a tertiary DNS server for hosting of DNS domains. The server is geographically seperate from all other IPTIA DNS servers and is available to any IPTIA-hosted domain.
Current IPTIA DNS hosting servers are:
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| IMPROVEMENTS TO ANTISPAM SYSTEM | 2008-08-22 22:45:41 |
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We have enhanced the response time of our AntiSPAM system, MXShield. This will result in faster mail processing and the ability for us to do more indepth analysis in less time.
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| IPTIA ADDS NEW HOSTING CUSTOMERS | 2008-06-01 19:11:38 |
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IPTIA has adopted the hosting clients of Insite Websites of Warrenton, Virginia. These clients currently reside on their original servers, which were moved to IPTIA`s hosting facility. In the near future, these sites will be integrated into the IPTIA hosting system, providing improved services and capabilities. Welcome to all new members! |
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| IPTIA INSTITUTES CUSTOM RBL BLACKLIST | 2008-05-19 19:15:45 |
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IPTIA has developed and deployed a sophisticated DNS-based Realtime Blacklist (DNSRBL) to help combat the constantly growing problem of SPAM mail. This blacklist system combines information from hundreds of exisiting blacklists, security sites, and other lists of known rogue IP addresses into a comprehensive system capable of deterring nearly 90% of the malicious messages that previously required extension processing to detect. IPTIA mail users should see a marked improvement in both the performance and accuracy of their mail servers. |
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| WELCOME! | 2007-03-23 11:42:54 |
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Welcome to IPTIA News!
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