Cyber Security sleuths Dan Kaminsky and Jason Larsen have found significant security vulnerabilities in some affiliations that large ISPs have with ad serving companies. The Washington Post reports on their recent findings:

ISPs like Earthlink, Qwest and Verizon have outsourced at least portions oftheir ad-serving technology to BareFruit, a London-based company thatspecializes in helping ISPs monetize wayward Web searches. The trouble is thatuntil late this week, BareFruit’s ad servers were vulnerable to what Kaminskycalled a “trivial to find and exploit” vulnerability that would make it simplefor fraudsters to trick users of those ISPs More»

Labels: ISP, Online Advertising, online security

Japan News is reporting that four major ISPs in Japan are working together to stop pirating activity, especially the use of the “Winny” and similar programs that allow peer to peer file sharing.
According to the The Yomiuri Shimbun:
the measure would become the first countermeasure against Winny-using rights-violators used by the whole provider industry.
The number of users of file-sharing software such as Winny in the country is estimated to be about 1.75 million, with most of the files exchanged using the software believed to be illegal copies.A brief six-hour survey by a copyright organization monitoring the Internet found about More»

Labels: ISP, japan, peer to peer, piracy

The BBC is reporting that a censorship action by Pakistan led to a two hour YouTube global outage tonight. The BBC suggests this was possibly an attempt to keep Pakistanis from viewing YouTube videos that showed Danish cartoons deemed offensive to Islam, or a movie clip deemed offensive to Islam.
Google owns YouTube, and engineers there appear to have determined that the ISPs action corrupted the global DNS routing tables, making the site go dark for the entire world rather than just Pakistan ISPs.
Although the action is considered to be a mistake by the ISP, what remains More»

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