Archive for 2011/09/05

Leaseweb’s Alex de Joode: “A normal hosting provider has regular customers. A bullet proof hosting provider is really dedicated to hosting illegal activities. We cannot smell whether one of our customers is a bullet proof hosting provider” and “The Dutch Police is not interested in solving cybercrime cases if these cases cannot be brought before a Dutch judge”

Posted: 2011/09/05 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Public Policy, Stats / reports

“Such a bullet proof hosting provider can open ten different accounts, using ten different names with ten different e-mail addresses tied to it as well as ten different credit cards. If he keeps good records, we’ll regard that as ten different persons using our services. If he then uses the first account to host malware and another one to host a malicious URL, then it’s unclear to us that we’re dealing with the same person.”

Much more. Dutch language news article:
http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/107785/het-probleem-met–bulletproof-hosters-.html 

Netflix launches streaming service in Latin America

Posted: 2011/09/05 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20101731-93/netflix-launches-streaming-service-in-latin-america/

Lawyer Refuses to Tell Court How Profitable BitTorrent Settlements Are

Posted: 2011/09/05 in Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation

http://torrentfreak.com/lawyer-refuses-to-tell-court-how-profitable-bittorrent-settlements-are-110905/

Researchers equipped with fMRI machines have shown that they can link specific brainwave functions to specific objects, ideas or emotions. What they see as innovation, I see as the goddamn thought police running amuck in 30 years

Posted: 2011/09/05 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://gizmodo.com/5837051/i-dont-want-to-live-in-a-world-where-machines-can-read-my-mind-or-do-i

DNS hack hits 200 major websites: Vodafone, UPS, Acer, Microsoft sites affected

Posted: 2011/09/05 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/dns-hack-hits-200-major-websites-vodafone-ups-acer-microsoft-sites-affected/57294

In recent years the European Commission has promoted tougher anti-piracy legislation. The question is though, whether this is really in the best interests of European citizens

Posted: 2011/09/05 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing, Legislation, Public Policy

http://torrentfreak.com/europes-odd-anti-piracy-stance-send-money-to-the-us-110904/

Acquire for Photoshop is a clever utility app from developer Flying Car that lets users take images with an iPhone camera and immediately upload the shots to Adobe Photoshop CS5 or later

Posted: 2011/09/05 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/new-acquire-app-uploads-images-directly-to-adobe-photoshop-on-your-computer/11017

Britain’s Zara Phillips, Queen Elizabeth’s eldest granddaughter, believes Facebook is dangerous. She prefers using the phone or Skype instead

Posted: 2011/09/05 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/zara-phillips-declares-facebook-dangerous-prefers-skype/3297

IMHO, the Kobo eReader Touch is the best dedicated ebook reader and now it supports foreign languages, direct Internet downloads, and Sudoku

Posted: 2011/09/05 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-gadgeteer/kobo-ereader-touch-provides-foreign-language-support-in-update/5088

On early Sunday evening, UK time, The DNS records of many websites, including those of The Register and The Telegraph, were hijacked and redirected to a third party webpage controlled by Turkish hackers

Posted: 2011/09/05 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/05/dns_hijack_service_updated/

Sony schedules UK e-book store opening

Posted: 2011/09/05 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/09/05/sony_to_bring_e_book_store_to_uk/

Facebook deletes hacked Pages, destroying years of work – Typically, the administrator tries to access the Page, only to discover that someone else has managed to get admin privileges and then deleted their admin status

Posted: 2011/09/05 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection

Because they are no longer an admin of the Page, they have no standing with Facebook and no way of getting rid of the usurper and are usually told by the social network that the only option they have is to report it as “infringing or violating their rights” so that it will be deleted. But for many users, this is a difficult option to swallow after months, or even years, spent building up their fanbase.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/05/facebook_fanpages_are_being_hijacked/

Communist Party officials in Beijing have flagged up concerns about the growth of micro-blogging websites in China

Posted: 2011/09/05 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/05/china_late_on_internet_regulation/

Cyberattacks are the top threat to future national security, according to the former head of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Michael Chertoff

Posted: 2011/09/05 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Public Policy

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/05/cyber_crime_the_cutting_edge_of_future_threats/

Google chose the Labor Day Lull to give the world an update on its copyright infringement measures

Posted: 2011/09/05 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Google

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/05/google_copyright_update/

Hackers attempt blackmail of Bank Leumi. Muslim elements demand immediate ransom, threatening to crash Leumi websites. Bank stresses no harm caused to clients’ accounts

Posted: 2011/09/05 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4117730,00.html

Chinese battle against piracy and counterfeited goods continues

Posted: 2011/09/05 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/home/blog-post/2011/09/05/chinese-battle-against-piracy-and-counterfeited-goods-continues.html

Music stores disappear from the streets of Amsterdam

Posted: 2011/09/05 in Education / Awareness

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/home/blog-post/2011/09/05/music-stores-disappear-from-the-streets-of-amsterdam.html

Twitter, Facebook, Skype, WordPress, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, TOR, Mozilla add-ons, Windows Update and Windows Live domains among compromised DigiNotar certificates. All your base are belong to Iran?

Posted: 2011/09/05 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection

https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/misc/diginotar/rogue-certs-2011-09-04.xlsx

Tor/WikiLeaks hacker Jacob Appelbaum publishes full list of 531 compromised DigiNotar SSL-certificates. The Dutch government has shared it with him

Posted: 2011/09/05 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reports

About an hour ago I was contacted by the Dutch Government with more details about the DigiNotar Debacle. It seems that they’re doing a great job keeping on top of things and doing the job that DigiNotar should’ve done in July. They sent a spreadsheet with a list of 531 entries on the currently known bad DigiNotar related certificates.

The list isn’t pretty and I’ve decided that in the interest of defenders everywhere without special connections, I’m going to disclose it. The people that I have spoken with in the Dutch Government agree with this course of action.

More details and comments by Appelbaum:
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/diginotar-damage-disclosure

Full list:
https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/misc/diginotar/rogue-certs-2011-09-04.xlsx 

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About Jacob Appelbaum:

Wikileaks, Appelbaum, Lamo, Project Vigilant Connections
http://vrritti.com/2011/03/12/wikileaks-appelbaum-lamo-project-vigilant-connections/

WikiLeaks: Assange; Appelbaum, Berg, The Internet’s Greatest Con Men
http://vrritti.com/2011/02/22/wikileaks-assange-appelbaum-berg-the-internets-greatest-con-men/

WikiLeaks Intercepted Private Communications via TOR proxy network, Maintains Access
http://vrritti.com/2010/12/10/wikileaks-intercepted-private-communications-via-tor-proxy-network-maintains-access/

WikiLeaks hacker Jacob Appelbaum promotes TOR on Dutch TV
Dutch language video with English language comments by Appelbaum:http://nos.nl/artikel/219423-tor-digitale-solidariteit-met-middenoosten.html

Appelbaum has been an active member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective since 2008, and is the co-founder of the San Francisco hackerspace Noisebridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum

The American Wikileaks Hacker
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/meet-the-american-hacker-behind-wikileaks-20101201

Wikileaks volunteer detained and searched (again) by US agents
http://vrritti.com/2011/01/14/wikileaks-volunteer-detained-and-searched-again-

Appelbaum currently works for the Tor Project, a United States Naval Research Laboratory initiative. The sponsors of that project listed on its website are: NLnet Foundation (2008-2009), Naval Research Laboratory (2006-2010), an anonymous North American ISP (2009-2010), provided up to $100k. Google (2008-2009), Google Summer of Code (2007-2009), Human Rights Watch, Torfox (2009) and Shinjiru Technology (2009-2010) gave in turn up to $50k. Past sponsors include: Electronic Frontier Foundation (2004-2005), DARPA and ONR via Naval Research Laboratory (2001-2006), Cyber-TA project (2006-2008), Bell Security Solutions Inc (2006), Omidyar Network Enzyme Grant (2006), NSF via Rice University (2006-2007). Jacob Appelbaum also played a role at Wikileaks.