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Minnesota Stirs up the ISP Community

May 6th, 2009

Using a 1961 federal law designed to stop illegal gambling, the state has directed 11 telephone and Internet service providers to block nearly 200 gambling Web sites.

I have managed to come across the actual letter that was sent to the ISP’s from Minnesota.
Letter Sent To the ISP’s4

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Sprint and Cogent Peering Dispute

October 31st, 2008

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — On October 30 at 4:30 pm
Sprint-Nextel severed its Internet connection to Cogent thereby partitioning
the Internet. It is no longer possible for many Sprint customers and Cogent
customers to directly communicate across the Internet. Sprint did so in
violation of a contractual obligation to exchange Internet traffic with Cogent
on a settlement free peering basis. Sprint and Cogent are engaged in
litigation over this matter. Cogent regrets that Sprint chose to take this
unilateral action rather than await a determination by the court as to the
rights of the parties. Cogent remains ready to reestablish, on the same
settlement free basis as previously existed, the connections that Sprint has
severed.

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Russia Breaks Wi-Fi Encryption with a Video Card GPU

October 29th, 2008

MOSCOW, October 9 /PRNewswire/ — ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. accelerates the recovery of WPA and WPA2 encryption
used in the Wi-Fi protocol by employing the new-generation NVIDIA video cards. ElcomSoft patent-pending GPU acceleration technology implemented in Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery allows using laptop, desktop or server computers equipped with supported NVIDIA video cards to break Wi-Fiencryption up to 100 times faster than by using CPU only.
Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery supports both WPA and the newer WPA2 encryption used in the majority of Wi-Fi networks, allowing breaking Wi-Fi protection quickly and efficiently with most laptop and desktop computers. The support of NVIDIA graphic accelerators increases the recovery speed by an average of 10 to 15 times when Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery is used on a moderate laptop with NVIDIA GeForce 8800M or 9800M series GPU, or up to 100 times when running on a desktop with two or more NVIDIA GTX 280 boards installed. Governments, forensic and corporate users will benefit from vastly increased speed of breaking Wi-Fi protection provided by Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery.
Though this software has to be purchased it has been reported as being seen on some P2P networks already.

Russia Company Breaks WIFI Security

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Internet Route Hijacking

March 16th, 2008

Just on the heels of the YouTube Route Hijack a little over two weeks ago, Africa Online Kenya (AFOL-KE - AS 36915) seems to have become the latest casualty of Internet routing insecurity. Earlier this morning Abovenet (AS 6461) began announcing reachability for one of AFOL-KE’s prefixes, 194.9.82.0/24.

According to RIPE’s BGP Play tool kit, the seemingly erroneous route announcement first appeared around 3:05A UTC this morning:

# 1/361 2008-03-15 03:05:27 Path Change from 29636 6461 2914 8513 25228 36915
rrc01 195.66.224.132 to 29636 2914 6461
# 2/361 2008-03-15 03:05:27 Route Announcement 20485 2914 6461
rrc01 195.66.224.212

BGP Security

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Cisco Being Criticized about “The Self Healing Network”

November 27th, 2007

An outage struck the networking giant Monday morning and continued to affect parts of the Web site for hours. The company, which uses its site for e-commerce, support, and work with business partners, said in a statement it’s investigating.”Earlier this morning, Cisco.com experienced some issues that impacted access to certain applications on the site,” Cisco said in a statement midmorning Monday, but the San Jose, Calif.-based company didn’t immediately say what parts of the site were down. “Currently, Cisco.com is accessible and we are in the process of conducting a thorough investigation to determine the cause and full impact. We thank our customers, partners and other site users for their patience.”

Cisco Outage

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Is the US Stuck In The Internet Slow Lane

November 6th, 2007

The United States is starting to look like a slowpoke on the Internet. Examples abound of countries that have faster and cheaper broadband connections, and more of their population connected to them.

What’s less clear is how badly the country that gave birth to the Internet is doing, and whether the government needs to step in and do something about it. The Bush administration has tried to foster broadband adoption with a hands-off approach. If that’s seen as a failure by the next administration, the policy may change.

Should the government step in?

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Sourcefire Aquires ClamAV™ Project

August 17th, 2007

Open source innovator and SNORT® creator, Sourcefire, Inc. today announced the acquisition of leading open source gateway anti-virus technology provider, ClamAV. Sourcefire will continue to develop and offer ClamAV as an open source (GPL) solution, while also leveraging it throughout the commercial Sourcefire Enterprise Threat Management (ETM) offerings.

Opensource Antivirus

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Department of Homeland Security Wants DNS Control

April 2nd, 2007

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which was created after the attacks on September 11, 2001 as a kind of overriding department, wants to have the key to sign the DNS root zone solidly in the hands of the US government. This ultimate master key would then allow authorities to track DNS Security Extensions (DNSSec) all the way back to the servers that represent the name system’s root zone on the Internet. The “key-signing key” signs the zone key, which is held by VeriSign. At the meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in Lisbon, Bernard Turcotte, president of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) drew everyone’s attention to this proposal as a representative of the national top-level domain registries (ccTLDs).

Homeland Security DNSSec

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One Keystroke deletes a 38Billion Dollar Account

March 20th, 2007

JUNEAU, Alaska - Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing an account worth $38 billion.

And the only backup was the paperwork itself — stored in more than 300 cardboard boxes.
Where did my 38billion go?

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Man Arrested in Cisco Fraud Plot

March 8th, 2007

Now we all partly understand why Cisco gear is a bit more expensive, others taking advantage of top notch service. I have heard of such cases previously but have never seen it publicized so widely with so much network equipment and money being stolen. Cisco often speaks about counterfeit equipment being sold on ebay and cutting into their profits as well.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A Massachusetts businessman who resold Cisco Systems Inc. networking gear was arrested on charges he defrauded the technology company out of millions of dollars by cheating its program to replace broken or defective hardware.

Michael Daly, 53, of Danvers, Mass., was arrested Tuesday and was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in Boston federal court, according to federal prosecutors. After preliminary hearings in Boston, his case will be moved to San Jose, prosecutors said.

San Jose-based Cisco makes the routers and switches that direct data traffic over computer networks, and the parts Daly obtained were worth between $995 to $25,000 each, prosecutors said. Some of the proceeds were used to buy classic cars.
Cisco Fraud Case

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Minnesota Stirs up the ISP Community

Sprint and Cogent Peering Dispute

Russia Breaks Wi-Fi Encryption with a Video Card GPU

Internet Route Hijacking

Cisco Being Criticized about “The Self Healing Network”

Is the US Stuck In The Internet Slow Lane

Sourcefire Aquires ClamAV™ Project

Department of Homeland Security Wants DNS Control

One Keystroke deletes a 38Billion Dollar Account

Man Arrested in Cisco Fraud Plot

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