A recent FOIA request to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for “manuals, documents or other written guidance used to access or analyze data gathered by programs developed or deployed by Carrier IQ” was met with a telling denial. In it, the FBI stated…
Hacker to Demonstrate ‘Weak’ Mobile Internet Security
A German computer engineer said Tuesday that he had deciphered the code used to encrypt most of the world’s mobile Internet traffic and that he planned to publish a guide to prompt global operators to improve their safeguards.
Key internet address server sees spike in traffic
K-root down, but not (yet) out
Traffic hitting a key internet address look-up server in Europe has spiked over the past 24 hours, reaching loads that are four times higher than normal.…
Dutch parliament passes Europe’s first net neutrality law
Last week, the Dutch parliament passed a wide-ranging network neutrality bill that attempts to bring the country’s largest wireless operator to heel. If it clears the Senate as expected, the Dutch proposal will become the first such law adopted in Euro…
Will hardware hackers build hidden devices to distort news at Wi-Fi hotspots?
Unlike hactivists LulzSec’s recent posting of a false news story on the PBS Newshour website, any hardware hacker could build a “hidden” Newstweek device to distort news on wireless networks. Plus there is a web interface to configure the man-in-the-m…
Inside the Global War to Stop Web Hackers
The first thing they tell you at Akamai is that the Internet is constantly under attack. At every minute, somebody somewhere in the world is trying to hack into a website, shut it down, or steal valuable information from it.
And because the Cambridge…
So your phone is tracking you? You asked for it
If you’re worried about privacy, you can turn off the function on your smartphone that tracks where you go. But that means giving up the services that probably made you want a smartphone in the first place. After all, how smart is an iPhone or an Andro…
IPv4 Depletion Not Boosting IPv6 Adoption
Despite the fact that 95% of all Internet Protocol version 4 addresses are already being used, the new frontier of IPv6 currently represents less than 1% of IP addresses, or 0.3% of all Internet traffic, according to a recent study by Arbor Networks.
