Hackers have tried to crash a vast network of web cameras that Vladimir Putin ordered to allay fears of vote-rigging in the March presidential election, a deputy minister said on Friday.
Putin, facing the biggest protests of his 12-year rule after a disputed December parliamentary election the opposition said was rigged, ordered 182,000 web cameras to be installed at the 91,000 polling stations.
Intel disclosed several features for the company’s next-generation communications platform, codenamed “Crystal Forest.” Building upon Intel's strong presence in communications infrastructure, the platform will handle data processing across the network more efficiently and securely, while addressing the specialized needs for handling cloud connectivity and content processing.
Does Google want to provide some kind of IP video service for the people of Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri? We've heard the rumors. Here's another hint that they may be true after all: the Federal Communications Commission has received and reviewed an application from Google Fiber for a fixed satellite, receive-only earth station to be located in Council Bluffs, Iowa—about 200 miles northwest of the two Kansas cities. And Google Fiber is a subsidiary of Google; it's the company that is building out a 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home testbed for the location in question.
More than three quarters (76 percent) of Brits are unhappy with their broadband, says MyVoucherCodes.co.uk. Research of 1,647 people by the comparison site revealed 59 percent believe their broadband speed is simply 'too slow' while 37 percent admitted they're unhappy with their provider.
Of those who's issue lies with their provider, 46 percent blamed not being able to speak to anyone at their ISP but more than half (51 percent) admitted 'poor customer service' was the source of their unhappiness.
Megaupload has been down for three weeks now, and while Internet traffic took a dive in the immediate aftermath of the shutdown, file-sharing activity has not decreased, with users simply moving to other services, according to a new report.
As noted by ITWorld, Much of the file-sharing activity has now shifted to Europe, and in particular, a site known as Putlocker, DeepField Networks said in a blog post this week.
Whilst mobile operators in Europe and North America seem to be doing all they can to restrict the amount of data downloaded by their customers, Russian carrier MegaFon wants its customers to enjoy the true definition of unlimited data by handing out prizes worth up to 1 million rubles ($33,000) to people who downloaded the most data in a week.
A software developer and amateur hacker has claimed the existence of exploits for wireless routers currently used by Eircom that theoretically would allow hackers who know what they are doing to break into their neighbours’ wireless networks.
In a blog published this morning, software developer Ross Canpolet referred to an exploit called RouterPWN v:1.3.138 that allows several methods of hacking routers and modems, such as Eircom’s popular ZyXEL P-660.
Politics, rather than good old-fashioned theft, is increasingly the motivation of malicious hackers who attack websites using DDoS techniques.
Arbor Networks has found that ideological hacktivism was the motivation behind most distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in 2011.
People often think that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks-you know like the ones that knocked the Department of Justice, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and Universal Music recently–require hundreds of attackers generating gigabytes of traffic per second to pound a Website down into the ground. Ah, no they don’t.
Two months after a traffic hijacking scheme was brought to its knees, the software that powered a botnet is still running on computers at half of the Fortune 500 companies, and on nearly 50 percent of all federal government agency PCs.
The "DNSChanger Trojan" changes the host computer's web settings to hijack search results and to block victims from visiting security sites that might help scrub the infections.
