Accessing Internet at 640 Gb/s?

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

University of Sydney physicists have developed an optical chip that could potentially improve ‘Internet speeds to up to 100 times faster than current Australia’s networks.’ According to the Sydney Morning Herald, these chalcogenide glass photonic chips will be very cheap to produce as they’re based on plain glass. As said ...

How your cold explains network intrusion

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

With the cold an flu season most definitely upon us, there is much that the common cold can show us about network intrusion and what can happen once a single compromise has taken place.As you sniffle and blink your way through this article, think of how your computer responds to ...

PINs stolen from Citibank ATMs

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

We all worry about keeping our online passwords safe from prying eyes. But now our faith in ATM PIN codes is being shaken. Three people face charges in federal court in New York for allegedly breaking into Citibank's ATM network inside 7-Eleven stores and stealing PIN codes, according to court filings ...

PAWS – Python Advanced Wardialing System

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Now this is an oldskool topic, wardialling! Some people still ask me about wardialling tools though, so here’s one I found recently written in Python. PAW / PAWS is a wardialing software in python. It is designed to scan for ISDN (PAWS only) and “modern” analog modems (running at 9.6kbit/s or ...

$1B Market for Meddling With DNS Poses Security Problem

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

The interception of Internet traffic to snoop on phone calls or track surfers' behavior is a hot topic -- but what's keeping members of ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee up at night is the interception of traffic to and from sites that don't even exist. They explained why in ...