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Written by dnr
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Saturday, 29 January 2011 17:02 |
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by Ryan Singel, source: wired.com
Traffic to Egypt fell to a trickle, after the country's decision to shut off the net on Thursday, according to this graphic from Arbor Network. Reprinted with permission from Arbor Network
Egypt’s largest ISPs shut off their networks Thursday, making it impossible for traffic to get to websites hosted in Egypt or for Egyptians to use e-mail, Twitter or Facebook. The regime of President Hosni Mubarak also ordered the shut down of mobile phone networks, including one run by the U.K.-based Vodafone, all in an attempt to undermine the growing protests over Mubarak’s autocratic rule of the country.
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Last Updated on Monday, 31 January 2011 21:14 |
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Written by crashacid
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Saturday, 29 January 2011 10:04 |
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Sony has been granted a temporary injunction against George Hotz, preventing him from publishing information about jailbreaking PlayStation 3 consoles.
A California judge has granted Sony a temporary restraining order against George Hotz, who—in addition to famously jailbreaking the Apple iPhone, also developed a method to jailbreak the Sony PlayStation 3 gaming console, enabling others to install alternative operating systems and homebrew software. Under the restraining order, Hotz is no longer allowed to publish information about the PlayStation 3 jailbreak, and must turn over his computer equipment to Sony within ten days.
The injunction was first reported by PSX-Scene, which also posted court documents in PDF format.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 29 January 2011 13:49 |
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Written by ph0bYx
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Friday, 28 January 2011 17:41 |
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By Ed Oswald, betanews.com
Google took steps Thursday to honor a previous commitment to root out piracy in its searches, beginning to censor torrent searches from its Autocomplete and Instant functionality. The Mountain View, Calif. company's efforts don't seem perfect: several torrent searches still seemed to be available.
Among the terms apparently filtered out include popular clients BitTorrent and Rapidshare according to reports. On some built-in search functions in browsers such as Internet Explorer and Safari, the terms appear to have disappeared. Betanews was still able to search for specific torrents such as "windows xp torrent," however, and Google was still returning torrent links through Instant at least for our testers.
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Written by ph0bYx
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Thursday, 27 January 2011 10:02 |
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H-Online.com
The Fedora Project has confirmed that there was an intrusion into its infrastructure on the 22nd, but investigations have shown "no impact on product integrity". The announcement of the intrusion by Fedora Project Leader, Jared Smith, states that the project became aware of a problem when a contributor received an email from FAS, the Fedora Accounts System, saying his account details had been changed.
The Fedora Infrastructure Team investigated and confirmed the account had been compromised. After locking down systems, snap-shotting file systems and auditing logs it was found that the account, which was only authorised for SSH to fedorapeople.org, push packages into Fedora's SCM and perform builds of Fedora packages, had only changed the account's SSH key and logged into fedorapeople.org.
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Written by ph0bYx
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Wednesday, 26 January 2011 10:06 |
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By Declan McCullagh, CNet.com
The House Republicans' first major technology initiative is about to be unveiled: a push to force Internet companies to keep track of what their users are doing.
A House panel chaired by Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin is scheduled to hold a hearing tomorrow morning to discuss forcing Internet providers, and perhaps Web companies as well, to store records of their users' activities for later review by police.
One focus will be on reviving a dormant proposal for data retention that would require companies to store Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for two years, CNET has learned.
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