Archive for June, 2010

http://torrentfreak.com/isohunt-partners-us-attorney-general-to-ban-child-porn-100630/

ICE, Manhattan U.S. Attorney seize multiple Web sites for criminal copyright violations

Seizure warrants against nine domain names;

Seized assets from 15 bank, Paypal, investment and advertising accounts;

Executed four residential search warrants in several states.

http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/1006/100630losangeles.htm

http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/06/28

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/avistar-granted-patent-for-real-time-bandwidth-management-2010-06-30

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-20009289-2.html

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20009262-261.html

99 to 1, study finds

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/30/unsafe_surfing/

AdWords terms discriminatory, not transparent, lack objectivity…

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/30/google_navx/

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/06/eu-launches-net-neutrality-inquiry-joins-us-uk-and-canada.ars

http://www.billboard.com/news/prince-to-release-20ten-for-free-in-europe-1004101252.story

Registrars denying contractual obligations, engage in WHOIS system blocking, manipulation and obfuscation by providing alternative  ”domain lookup” services.

Author is observing large-scale manipulation of the very fabric of the Internet for the gain of a few at the expense of the rest. Registrars large and small are failing to comply with the most basic conditions of their contract and so far this has slipped by ICANN.

http://www.circleid.com/posts/who_is_blocking_whois_part_2/

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says a new initiative will make it harder for people to use social networking sites to share child pornography. Law enforcement agencies contribute digital fingerprints, or “hash values”

http://www.cnycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=471870

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/open-university-hits-record-20-million-downloads-on-itunes/5444

Google applications also adding new MAC addresses to database

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20009223-265.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/29/google_edm/

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/89600/copyright-war-escalates-with-nmpa-joining-ascaps-attack-on-free-culture/

http://iptv.tmcnet.com/topics/iptv/articles/90369-internet-television-something-else-carriers-think.htm

Google’s management of the Android Market, is too lax resulting in too much piracy and hacking,  a famous hacker and pirate has warned

http://www.techeye.net/internet/android-market-is-rubbish-says-dvd-jon

http://newteevee.com/2010/06/28/rapidshare-ready-to-launch-download-stores/

“Ok, perhaps they didn’t say it quite like that, but that’s how it sounded in my head”

http://phandroid.com/2010/06/29/att-we-block-non-market-apps-to-keep-developers-in-check/

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-214658-100-google-apps-blocked-because-of-tv-provider-claims-group.html

 Revenues from cybercrimes have reached an estimated $1 trillion per year, putting it ahead of drug trafficking (for the first time) on the list of the world’s most lucrative illegal global businesses

http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14507618/c_14507563

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/technology/29apple.html

 In 24-48 hours people in China won’t have access to the search giant at all

“We’ve long said that to develop in China, you must abide by Chinese laws,” Wang Chen, head of the Information Office of the State Council told reporters. “Our stance is very clear in those statements.”

http://stuffmideast.com/2010/06/30/13399/no-more-google-search-in-china/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20009231-245.html

The criminal proceedings against P2P index site ShareConnector is turning into an embarrassing fiasco for the Dutch Department of Justice

http://torrentfreak.com/court-doubts-legitimacy-of-shareconnector-shutdown-100629/

http://delimiter.com.au/2010/06/28/conroy-re-commits-to-filter-slams-lundy-amendments/

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/06/hulu-plus-debuts-999mo-with-ads-but-on-more-devices.ars

The applicant for a .CN domain name shall submit true, accurate and complete domain name registration information. CNNIC is requiring all domain name holders to confirm the registration information via the new launched online system of CNNIC. The notification email will be sent directly to the registrants.

http://domainnamewire.com/2010/06/29/verify-your-cn-email-address-in-15-days-or-you-might-lose-your-domain/

See also:

 .CN Registrants must confirm their data per email

https://www.rrpproxy.net/website/news/1555/

and

China Internet Domain Name Regulations

http://www.cnnic.net.cn/html/Dir/2005/03/24/2861.htm

http://www.fastcompany.com/1664567/exclusive-behind-the-touching-stories-ipad-experience-that-debuts-today

Video (in Dutch language): http://www.om.nl/cybermap/expertmeeting/map/cybercrime_facts_0/   

Translation: Facts and figures in relation to digitization and Cybercrime

2000: 360 million internet users globally, 2009: 1.7 billion Internet users globally,
In 2009 Google processed more than 31 billion search queries per day
Each day we send out 1.165 billion e-mails. Almost 90 percent being SPAM

Recently 1 botnet compromised 12.7 million PCs, some of them located at 40 banks and 50 Fortune 100 companies
Number of botnet tutorials on YouTube, on March 2010: 102 videos

 95 percent of all music online is being downloaded illegally

 8.8 million Dutch inhabitants are shopping online, total revenue in 2009: 6 billion euro
 8 out of 10 Dutch inhabitants are banking online

 In 2008 4.8 million Terabyte of information was added to the internet, which equals a stack of paper (A4 sheets) of 96 million kilometers or 250 times the distance between the earth and the moon

 91 percent of all Dutch households own a PC

 Hyves.nl:
average age of visitors: 27
age 13-34: 80 percent visiting Hyves
age 35-49: 66 percent visiting Hyves
age 50+: 30 percent visiting Hyves
7 billion Hyves pages were visited in May 2009

 How many passwords do you have? 31 percent of all Dutch inhabitants uses the same password everywhere
 Do you have a cybercriminal as a colleague? It happens at 1 out of every 8 companies

 Estimated financial damage due to cybercrime: 100 billion US dollars per year, which equals 3,000,- dollars per second
 Most prolific type of cybercrime is e-fraud and 1 out of 7 fraudsters is operating from abroad

 In 2010 there will be 2 billion internet users globally

Contact information: e.rossieau (at) om.nl (Public Prosecutor’s Office) and cybercrime (at) vtspn.nl (Police)

 

One suggestion within the code is to put infected users into a “walled garden”

http://www.zdnet.com/news/us-interested-in-aussie-zombie-code/439370

See also earlier post:

Blacklist and Walled Garden of Dutch ISP KPN

http://contentprotection.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/blacklist-and-walled-garden-of-dutch-isp-kpn/

http://www.tmcnet.com/voip/0610/a-new-twist-on-location-based-services-lbs-can-be-used-to-bill-locate-manage-monitor-and-more.htm

http://www.itpro.co.uk/624661/most-users-unhappy-with-mobile-broadband-quality

Through a new service that aims to make music licensing “friendly”

http://news.softpedia.com/news/License-a-Song-for-YouTube-Videos-for-1-99-145705.shtml