Microsoft Offers $250000 Bounty For Worm Authors

Administrator — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:42:46 +0000

REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 12, 2009 — Today, Microsoft Corp. announced a partnership with technology industry leaders and academia to implement a coordinated, global response to the Conficker (aka Downadup) worm. Together with security researchers, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and operators within the Domain Name System, Microsoft coordinated a response designed to disable domains targeted by Conficker. Microsoft also announced a $250,000 reward for information that results in the arrest and conviction of those responsible for illegally launching the Conficker malicious code on the Internet.

“As part of Microsoft’s ongoing security efforts, we constantly look for ways to use a diverse set of tools and develop methodologies to protect our customers,” said George Stathakopoulos, general manager of the Trustworthy Computing Group at Microsoft. “By combining our expertise with that of the broader community we can expand the boundaries of defense to better protect people worldwide.”

As cyberthreats have rapidly evolved, a greater level of industry coordination and new tactics for communication and threat mitigation are required. To optimize the multiple initiatives being employed across the security industry and within academia, Microsoft helped unify these broad efforts to implement a community-based defense to disrupt the spread of Conficker.

Along with Microsoft, organizations involved in this collaborative effort include ICANN, NeuStar, VeriSign, CNNIC, Afilias, Public Internet Registry, Global Domains International Inc., M1D Global, AOL, Symantec, F-Secure, ISC, researchers from Georgia Tech, the Shadowserver Foundation, Arbor Networks and Support Intelligence.

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2012: The Year The Internet Ends

Administrator — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:38:13 +0000

How the industry will kill the Internet in about 4 years from now. 06/01/2008 - Every significant Internet provider around the globe is currently in talks with access and content providers to transform the internet into a television-like medium: no more freedom, you pay for a small commercial package of sites you can visit and you’ll have to pay for separate subscriptions for every site that’s not in the package.

Almost all smaller websites/services will disappear over time and multinationals who are used to using big budgets to brute force their content into every media outlet will finally be able to approach the internet in the same way.

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In the Wireless War, Google Can’t Lose for Losing

Administrator — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:02:38 +0000

Losing the battle for a prized piece of the airwaves isn’t necessarily a setback for Google Inc.

If anything, Thursday’s news that Verizon Wireless had won the government-run auction for a pivotal swath of spectrum may even have been the ideal outcome for Google.

That’s because investors no longer have to fret about Google straying from its main business of Internet search to spend more than $10 billion buying and building a wireless network.

Yet Google still positioned itself to profit from the newly available airwaves by ensuring the bids for the so-called “C block” escalated to $4.6 billion. Reaching that price triggered a provision that requires the new wireless network to accommodate all mobile devices, including equipment using a software package called “Android” that is supposed to give Google a better opportunity to sell more advertising.

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Lyricsfly releases the API to it’s database

Administrator — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:24:33 +0000

From the site: API is available to anyone who wishes to use our database for their own music project, website or program. If you currently use the web to search out lyrics or use code tricks to access other lyrics websites to display relevant lyrics text for your content you can now have a reliable source without the hassle.

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Comcast Sued Over BitTorrent Blocking

Administrator — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:46:43 +0000

A California man filed suit in state court Tuesday against internet service provider Comcast, arguing that the company’s secret use of technology to limit peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent violates federal computer fraud laws, their user contracts and anti-fraudulent advertising statutes.

Plaintiff Jon Hart, represented by the Lexington Law Group, argues that Comcast’s promises of providing internet connections that let users “Download at Crazy Fast Speeds” are false and misleading since Comcast limits downloads by transmitting “unauthorized hidden messages to the computers of customers” who use peer-to-peer file sharing software. Hart wants the court to force Comcast to stop interfering with the traffic.

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Google vrs Verizon & ATT vrs FCC - ALL or Nothing Ultimatums !!

Administrator — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:47:56 +0000

Google ATT Verizon and FCC can not find a compromise for the 700MHz spectrum that could be used to create a new open-access wireless broadband ‘pipe’ into people
’s homes and devices . Read the latest on this fiasco

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Google Maps new feature- Street View!!

Administrator — Wed, 30 May 2007 13:55:53 +0000

Google Maps just released a new feature that lets you actually look around the street. Seems to only be working in major cities for now.

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ICANN has terminated Registerfly

Administrator — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 04:33:39 +0000

ICANN today issued a formal notice of termination of RegisterFly.com’s Registration Accreditation Agreement (RAA).

ICANN has issued a letter to RegisterFly [PDF, 902K] indicating that it will cease operating as an ICANN-Accredited Registrar on March 31, 2007. Under the terms of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA), ICANN must provide 15 days written notice to RegisterFly of its intention to terminate.

Effective immediately ICANN has terminated RegisterFly’s right to use the ICANN Accredited Registrar logo on its website.

Between now and 31 March RegisterFly is required to unlock and provide all necessary Authinfo codes to allow domain name transfers to occur. Any and all registrants wishing to transfer away from RegisterFly during this period should be allowed to do so efficiently and expeditiously.

“Terminating accreditation is the strongest measure ICANN is able to take against RegisterFly under its powers,” Dr. Paul Twomey, President and CEO of ICANN said today.

“ICANN has been frustrated and distressed by recent management confusion inside RegisterFly,” Dr. Twomey, President said. “I completely understand the greater frustration and enormous difficulty that this has created for registrants.”

When the Agreement is terminated, ICANN can approve a bulk transfer of all current RegisterFly domain names to another ICANN accredited Registrar.

“Of course, RegisterFly does not have to wait till then. They can request ICANN to approve a bulk transfer immediately. I call on RegisterFly to act in the interests of registrants and seek such a transfer from us straight away,” Dr. Twomey said.

ICANN intends to hold a forum to discuss the reform of the Accreditation policy and process at its Lisbon meeting in a week’s time*.

A set of questions and points to inform the discussion will be made public prior to the Lisbon meeting.

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Huge Chaos at Registerfly

Administrator — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 15:17:00 +0000

The well known domain registrar RegisterFly will lose its accreditation if it can not fix their serious operational problems in the next 10 days. ICANN informed RegisterFly that they are in serious trouble and if they are not fixing the problems, they will loose its operating agreement. Customers are complaining for months now and the registrar’s operations have descended into chaos this week.

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160gb flash based hard drive

Administrator — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:56:47 +0000

PHOENIX, AZ - February 20, 2007 - Solid state flash disk manufacturer Adtron Corporation, announces today the immediate availability of its most advanced generation of the Adtron Flashpak® Family of products including the IDE and Serial ATA (SATA) flash disk models, the I25FB and A25FB, respectively. The products in this announcement include the industry’s highest capacity 2.5″ SLC NAND flash disk drives at 160 GBytes, only available from Adtron.
The I25FB Flashpak® flash solid state disk (SSD) is powered by the patent-pending Adtron ArrayPro™ performance engine to deliver industry leading performances previously unachieved in a solid state flash disk. The I25FB leverages this unique ArrayPro technology to provide true sustained write and read rates up to 60 and 70MBytes per second, respectively.

Adtron’s Flashpak I25FB combines IDE flash solid state disk performance leadership with the highest capacities in a 2.5-inch form factor, with up to 160GBytes. In an industry standard, base height enclosure of 9.5mm, the I25FB offers 32GB of mass storage to suit the needs of laptops and mobile computing subsystems.

I25FB Flashpak solid state flash disks contain no moving parts. The IDE interface conforms to ATA industry standards. These 2.5-inch flash disks can easily replace standard 2.5-inch hard disk drives (HDDs), providing full HDD functionality with superior reliability and performance. The I25FB Flashpak flash disk is far superior to HDDs in terms of ruggedness, shock resistance, environmental resilience and performance.

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