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Archive for June, 2010
IsoHunt Partners US Attorney General to Ban Child Porn
Posted: 2010/06/30 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Filtering, Public Policy“Operation In Our Sites” targets Internet movie pirates
Posted: 2010/06/30 in Copyright, Cybercrime, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing, Organized Crime, Public PolicyICE, 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.
EFF Argues Against Mass Copyright Infringement Lawsuits in Wednesday Hearing
Posted: 2010/06/30 in Copyright, Public PolicyAvistar Granted Patent for Real-Time Bandwidth Management
Posted: 2010/06/30 in Bandwidth ManagementRegular domains beat smut sites at hosting malware
Posted: 2010/06/30 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Stats / reports99 to 1, study finds
French regulator orders Google to reinstate Gatso-buster’s account
Posted: 2010/06/30 in Google, Online advertising, Public PolicyAdWords terms discriminatory, not transparent, lack objectivity…
EU launches net neutrality inquiry; joins US, UK, and Canada
Posted: 2010/06/30 in Net Neutrality, Public PolicyWho Is Blocking WHOIS? Part 2
Posted: 2010/06/30 in Blocking, Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network SecurityRegistrars 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.
Blocking child porn from social networking sites
Posted: 2010/06/30 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Filtering, Public PolicyNew 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”
Google mobile apps collect Wi-Fi location data
Posted: 2010/06/30 in Education / Awareness, Google, Mobile tech, Privacy / Data ProtectionGoogle applications also adding new MAC addresses to database
UK: Google’s Wi-Fi snoop prompts Early Day Motion
Posted: 2010/06/30 in Google, Privacy / Data Protection, Public PolicyAndroid Market is rubbish says DVD Jon
Posted: 2010/06/30 in Education / Awareness, Google, Mobile techGoogle’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
AT&T: We Block Non-Market Apps to Keep Developers in Check
Posted: 2010/06/30 in Blocking, Mobile tech“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/
Google apps blocked because of TV provider, claims group
Posted: 2010/06/30 in Blocking, Google, LitigationCome Together Over Cybercrime
Posted: 2010/06/30 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Public PolicyRevenues 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
Germany Asks Apple About iPhone’s Data-Gathering
Posted: 2010/06/30 in Privacy / Data Protection, Public PolicyNo more Google search in China
Posted: 2010/06/30 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Google, Public PolicyIn 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/
NL: Court Doubts Legitimacy of ShareConnector Shutdown
Posted: 2010/06/30 in Enforcement, Jurisprudence, LitigationThe 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/
Australia: Conroy re-commits to filter, slams Lundy amendments
Posted: 2010/06/30 in Filtering, Public PolicyHulu Plus: $9.99 gets you more shows, more devices, same ads
Posted: 2010/06/30 in New Business ModelsVerify your .Cn Email Address in 15 Days or You Might Lose your Domain
Posted: 2010/06/29 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Future Developments?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.
See also:
.CN Registrants must confirm their data per email
https://www.rrpproxy.net/website/news/1555/
and
China Internet Domain Name Regulations
Dutch Public Prosecutor’s Office – Cybercrime Facts & Figures
Posted: 2010/06/29 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, Public Policy, Stats / reportsVideo (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)
US interested in Aussie ‘zombie’ code
Posted: 2010/06/29 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network Security, Three StrikesOne 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/
Most users unhappy with mobile broadband quality
Posted: 2010/06/29 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, Mobile techThrough 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