Broadband boom makes UK worst for hacked PCs

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AETHER: Wired’s Worst Stories:
Zippies, The Long Boom, and Push!

AETHER: Wired’s Worst Stories:
Zippies, The Long Boom, and Push! 11/03/2003 03:16 AM
Gary Wolf pondering the worst Wired story ever .. his judgment .. book-blog

aether.com/archives//000009.html
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Boom in broadband users

Boom in broadband users 12/23/2003 09:32 AM
BBC Dec 23 2003 9:20AM ET

DSL Leads the Broadband Boom (PC World)

DSL Leads the Broadband Boom (PC World) 09/23/2004 04:45 AM
PC World - High-speed Internet access is becoming more and more popular, study shows.

Broadband fuels online gambling boom

Broadband fuels online gambling boom 04/14/2005 12:42 PM
Increasing availability of high-speed connections encourages more people to try their luck online.

Inventing a new MSN: Broadband boom
transforms Microsoft's key Internet
product

Inventing a new MSN: Broadband boom
transforms Microsoft's key Internet
product 12/08/2003 04:36 AM
Seattle Times Dec 8 2003 4:19AM ET

The Bush Boomlet: "the Bush boom rests
more on hope than hard data—and on a
pretty weak definition of a boom." 10/31

The Bush Boomlet: "the Bush boom rests
more on hope than hard data—and on a
pretty weak definition of a boom." 10/31 10/31/2003 08:16 AM
Is the economy really booming? .. this one by Daniel Gross .. This Salon article .. another

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CoD United Offensive boom boom

CoD United Offensive boom boom 09/20/2004 07:05 PM
Luigi Auriemma (Sep 18 2004)

ForeThought.net Launches Mach Broadband
- Cable-Crushing Broadband Internet
Service

ForeThought.net Launches Mach Broadband
- Cable-Crushing Broadband Internet
Service 03/14/2005 05:59 PM
foreThought.net, a Denver-based telephone and Internet company, today announced the launch of "Mach", its new ADSL 2+ broadband Internet access service. [PRWEB Mar 11, 2005]

IPWireless Mobile Broadband Technology
to Power Sentechs MyWireless, the First
Nationwide Broadband Wireles

IPWireless Mobile Broadband Technology
to Power Sentechs MyWireless, the First
Nationwide Broadband Wireles 12/10/2003 04:16 PM
ECTA Portal Dec 10 2003 1:56PM ET

Cisco Powers Hong Kong Broadband
Network's 100Mbps and 1Gbps Residential
Broadband Services

Cisco Powers Hong Kong Broadband
Network's 100Mbps and 1Gbps Residential
Broadband Services 02/01/2005 09:50 PM
Investors Business Daily Feb 2 2005 1:50AM GMT

Broadband National, Inc. Teams with NCC
to Offer VoIP and Broadband Solutions

Broadband National, Inc. Teams with NCC
to Offer VoIP and Broadband Solutions 06/17/2005 03:16 PM
Broadband National Inc. a has teamed with National Communications Contracting, Inc. to offer high speed solutions to NCC customers inquiring about the telecommunication products and services the company offers. NCC will leverage Broadband National’s IBIS (Integrated Broadband Information System) to deploy broadband and VoIP solutions to small, medium and enterprise level customers. Broadband National’s proprietary platform enables end users to instantly compare broadband solutions offered by more than 40 different suppliers, including SBC Internet Services, Comcast, Covad, XO Communications, ITC DeltaCom, SpeakEasy, and Nuvox. [PRWEB Jun 16, 2005]

Time Broadband cuts prices for Internet
broadband service

Time Broadband cuts prices for Internet
broadband service 02/12/2004 02:02 PM
Utusan Online Feb 12 2004 6:43PM GMT

Nethercomm Corporation Comments on
Forbes Article where Broadband-in-Gas
Stands out among Traditional Broadband
Technologies by Delivering Connectivity
of 100+Mbps

Nethercomm Corporation Comments on
Forbes Article where Broadband-in-Gas
Stands out among Traditional Broadband
Technologies by Delivering Connectivity
of 100+Mbps 06/05/2005 11:18 PM
Nethercomm Corporation Addresses Forbes Article "Seven Ways to get Traditional Broadband Services", which highlights Broadband-in-Gas, a Compelling Broadband Technology Enabling “Previously Unobtainable Levels of Connectivity of 100+Mbps” [PRWEB May 27, 2005]

Innovative Broadband Broker Saves
Businesses, Non Profits, Schools and
Government Offices Thousands of Dollars
on T1,DSL,and Broadband. Complimentary
Consultations Available - Act Now!

Innovative Broadband Broker Saves
Businesses, Non Profits, Schools and
Government Offices Thousands of Dollars
on T1,DSL,and Broadband. Complimentary
Consultations Available - Act Now! 08/10/2004 03:50 AM
1st-T1-DSL-Broadband.com offers customers *The world's only real-time T1 price tool *Low Price Guarantee - We will not be undersold *Free unbiased price research will save you money [PRWEB Aug 10, 2004]

Wireless broadband has developed into a
truly versatile broadband communications
medium while the national local loops
experience ongoing access problems

Wireless broadband has developed into a
truly versatile broadband communications
medium while the national local loops
experience ongoing access problems 07/08/2004 03:39 AM
Research and Markets are delighted to announce the addition of 2004 Global Wireless Broadband Report to their offering [PRWEB Jul 8, 2004]

Broadband Envy: Fixing American
Broadband

Broadband Envy: Fixing American
Broadband 09/02/2004 10:01 AM

You've Been Hacked!

You've Been Hacked! 06/24/2005 09:40 PM
Seven signs that a bad guy has commandeered your financial life.

PSP hacked into something more useful

PSP hacked into something more useful 04/06/2005 06:17 PM
Apparently hackers have turned Sony's latest portable game player, the PSP handheld, into a device for online chat, Web browsing, and a venue for movies and music. Leave it to hackers who managed to add an online chat function by hijacking a Web browser built into a racing game called "Wipeout Pure." Once the hackers are able to change the PSP's network settings, they can point the browser to a Web portal. There's also a way for hackers to transfer TV programs recorded on the TiVo service to the PSP player, a program for reading e-books, and a viewer for...

Hacked for Spam

Hacked for Spam 12/08/2003 11:18 PM

From the New York Times:

Computer security researchers have been watching the evolution of remote-access rogue programs as they have become more common and have put more machines under the control of hackers. Programs like Sinit infect target machines and surreptitiously open back doors that allow outsiders to control the PC's. The rings of infected computers have been used to send spam, to present online advertisements for pornographic Web sites or to trick people into giving up information like credit card numbers.

In fact, at least a third of all spam circulating on the Internet is now sent from or relayed by personal home computers that have been taken over, said Jesse Dougherty, director of development at Sophos, an antivirus and antispam company.

Emphasis mine. Of course, whether or not you want to believe a director from a company that directly profits from people's fear of security attacks is up to you. That said, I've seen plenty of supporting evidence in the past few months that indicates that spamming is now the number one reason that a cracker would want to take over a PC, not least this Wired article.

Continuing on the same theme, The Rise of the Spammers is a fascinating article by David Barroso Berrueta describing how one of his servers was turned in to a spam relay after being compromised through a vulnerability in a PHP script. The technical details are intriguing; the attacker downloaded and uncompressed a daemon which then communicated with another host using an extended version of the SMTP protocol, receiving spam email bodies along with lists of addresses to send the spam on to.

Let's talk about the PHP vulnerability in question: yet again, it was the classic problem where an attacker can instruct PHP to download and execute code from their own server by feeding in a query string parameter that is passed un-checked to an include() function call. While there are a number of steps that can be taken to deny this kind of attack, it unveils a fundamental problem with PHP itself - that it will execute code retrieved from a URL in the first place! This feature should be removed from PHP - it has almost no purpose in the real world aside from allowing servers to be cracked in to. The feature exists because PHP has the extremely useful ability to open remote files over HTTP. Unfortunately, this feature extends to the include() and require() functions which will execute any PHP code in the file passed to the functions. The most obvious solution to my mind would be for these functions to refuse to execute PHP in files that were opened via HTTP. I have no doubt that this would involve an ugly hack on behalf of PHP's maintainers, but I believe the number of security problems it would solve would be well worth the trade-off.

Incidentally, I know you can disable opening files over HTTP and I know you shouldnt allow the direct creation of variables from the query string in the first place. The problems here are two-fold: firstly, opening files over HTTP is actually a very useful feature, one that would be all the more useful if it didn't carry the risk of executing arbitrary code. Secondly, the problem is mainly down to third party software which often requires insecure PHP settings (such as register_globals) in order to work.

How your phone could be hacked

How your phone could be hacked 04/25/2004 08:41 PM
ZDNet Apr 26 2004 0:36AM GMT

Will the election be hacked?

Will the election be hacked? 02/10/2004 02:44 AM
A Salon special report reveals how new voting machines could result in a rigged presidential race -- and we'd never know.

""We have a policy that we are not being
hacked.""

""We have a policy that we are not being
hacked."" 07/03/2004 02:10 AM

I Hacked at O'Reilly

I Hacked at O'Reilly 03/19/2003 10:24 PM
The O'Reilly Hacks site now has a hacks page for each contributor; mine's here.

Cisco Hacked?

Cisco Hacked? 05/17/2004 10:38 AM
Spooky news for the biggest makers of the Internet's infrastructure.

"Blogrolling.com has been hacked"

"Blogrolling.com has been hacked" 11/18/2003 10:22 AM

Help: I Got Hacked. Now What Do I Do?
Part II

Help: I Got Hacked. Now What Do I Do?
Part II 08/01/2004 12:27 AM

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If you missed part 1 of this series, I strongly suggest that you read it here. “On This Page: There Is More to Information Security Than Viruses Salvaging Data in the Absence of Backups Recovering After an Attack – What Tools Will Help? Conclusion”…

Is It Illegal To Get Hacked?

Is It Illegal To Get Hacked? 04/21/2004 03:53 PM
Tower Records and the FTC have apparently reached a settlement after the FTC accused them of allowing hackers to access customer records. This brings up a very interesting question that isn't often discussed. Since hack attacks to get at customer data happen all the time how does anyone determine whether or not the company itself is negligent in not protecting the data? At what point is it negligence rather than just being vulnerable? If the standard is set too low, then companies have less incentive to protect their data (though, pissed off customers may provide that incentive). However, blaming the victim for being hacked seems to present a lot of slippery slope style questions.

Microsoft admit they were hacked

Microsoft admit they were hacked 05/25/2004 07:26 PM

Old National Bank Hacked

Old National Bank Hacked 03/25/2005 11:42 PM

SCO hacked in apparent IP protest

SCO hacked in apparent IP protest 12/19/2004 03:37 PM

Acxiom Database Hacked Again... And
Again... And Again...

Acxiom Database Hacked Again... And
Again... And Again... 07/21/2004 08:22 PM
Acxiom is one of the nation's largest providers of direct marketing (spam) lists, and the company can't seem to keep its databases safe from hackers. Late last year a man was caught copying one of their databases. Now, in what appears to be a much bigger case, authorities have hacking into the database repeatedly over a year and a half to retrieve names and personal info which he then sold for thousands of dollars to spammers. "Information accessed included names, addresses, e-mail addresses, customer demographics, and probably some birth dates and Social Security numbers." They discovered the breach soon after the first case, when they decided (what an idea) that it might make sense to actually check to make sure their databases were secure. And, of course, for those who are already in an Acxiom database and worried about the implications and would like out of their database, remember that they make it as difficult as possible to "opt out."

Windows Forensics: Have I been Hacked?

Windows Forensics: Have I been Hacked? 07/20/2004 11:02 AM

Microsoft.com Hacked and Defaced

Microsoft.com Hacked and Defaced 05/24/2004 03:40 PM

More Than 100,000 DSW Customers' Data
Hacked

More Than 100,000 DSW Customers' Data
Hacked 03/14/2005 05:56 PM

SCO Group Web Site Hacked Again

SCO Group Web Site Hacked Again 12/10/2003 07:46 PM
San Jose Mercury News Dec 10 2003 6:53PM ET

CERT: Sendmail Hacked

CERT: Sendmail Hacked 10/11/2002 07:56 AM
Internet News Oct 10 2002 0:40AM ET

CERT: Sendmail Hacked

CERT: Sendmail Hacked 10/09/2002 09:46 AM
Some copies of the source code for Sendmail has been hacked by an intruder and now contain a Trojan horse.

SCO Group Web site hacked again

SCO Group Web site hacked again 12/10/2003 09:10 PM
Boston Globe Dec 10 2003 7:25PM ET

Techie alert: Even you can be hacked

Techie alert: Even you can be hacked 06/11/2004 09:51 AM

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