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Off-to-jail hacker tells how he stole VOIP on massive scale

Robert Moore at left, a 23 year-old hacker from Spokane, Wash., is to go to prison later this week for his role in a plot to steal VoIP services from some 15 legitimate VoIP providers and then sell them as a separate company.Information Week's Sharon Gaudin  has some quotes from...

Tags: Password, Hacker, Robert Moore, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-09-27

Accused VoIP wholesaler thief flees: now the question is, WHY?

That's a 40-foot SeaRay. (Hmm, sure would be nice to win Powerball).But according to the Feds, Edwin Pena, 23, was able to pay for the SeaRay as well as three luxury autos by acting as a fraudulent wholesaler of VoIP services. The Feds believe that the Miami resident and...

Tags: VoIP, Robert Moore, Edwin Pena

Blog posts 2006-09-16

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News to know: DNS flaw; Amazon; Microsoft shakeup; Facebook

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service Attack code published for DNS flaw Nate McFeters: |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison iPhone vulnerable to phishing,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, DNS, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Flaw, Game Players, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24

|)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit

|)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploitSo, Linux's BIND the first to be exploited...So, Linux's BIND the first to be exploited...Nice work!CoolNate, nice post and analysis!Wasn't the replacing the ns.victim.com cache entry part of the Halvar Flake speculation? I thought first part of the exploit was to...

Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, Operating systems, Alecco, DNS, ruid, exploit, HD Moore, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

|)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit

[Updated 07/24/2008: Gallery images of diffs of code revisions has been included and will be updated as things change, see here.] Earlier today, noted researchers |)ruid and HD Moore released exploit code for the Metasploit tool for attacking the DNS flaw that was originally reported by Dan...

Tags: DNS, Domain, Server, Entry, Exploit, NS, NS Record, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Attack code published for DNS flaw

Attack code published for DNS flawIrresponsible and evil"In an IM exchange, Moore told me his exploit takes about a minute or two to poison a DNS cache but said he is working to improve it in version 2.0."As far as i am concerened he is just an evil person to...

Tags: Domain names, Halvar, exploit, DNS

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Attack code published for DNS flaw

The urgency to patch Dan Kaminsky's DNS cache poisoning vulnerability just went up a few notches. Exploit code for the flaw, which allows the insertion of malicious DNS records into the cache of the target nameserver, has been added to Metasploit, a freely distributed attack/pen-testing tool....

Tags: Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Citizen journalism and traditional news

Citizen journalism and traditional newsHere's a way to learn and improveRecord your video and then DON'T look at it right away. go do something else and look at it at least an hour later. Then see what you did wrong. Think about that but don't do it...

Tags: Corporate communications, Blogging, Planning, consciousness, Citizen Journalism, video

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced

Well, after getting 134 nominations, and spending countless hours pulling out nominees, the judges for the 2008 Pwnie Awards have announced the final nominees to be voted on.  From the site: The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is ...

Tags: Nominee, Vulnerability, XSS, Attack, Flaw, Dan, XSS Flaw, Lifelock, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-21

600 Starbucks to close. Good Riddens!

600 Starbucks to close. Good Riddens!Good RiddanceGood riddanceZD Can't SpellIt's "riddance" not "riddens". If "riddens" was supposed to be a play on words or a joke or a reference to something having to do with coffee, I don't get it.Otherwise, since you guys write about tech, maybe use that there...

Tags: Starbucks Corp., bean, Riddens

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Yahoo, Icahn settle proxy fight: Assessing winners and losers

Updated below: Yahoo and billionaire investor Carl Icahn have settled their looming proxy war. According to a statement Monday, Yahoo's board of directors will be expanded to 11 members and one of those seats will go to Icahn. The two remaining seats will be filled based on...

Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Qik out of private beta

Over the weekend, Qik came out of private beta. Jennifer Leggio has all the technical details, along with some insights in Robert Scoble's outburst about how kyte.tv would kill off Qik and Flixwagon. One claim the company makes over at VentureBeat is that they have gotten latency...

Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Business Model, Beta, Qik, Jennifer Leggio, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Proving Scoble wrong, Qik lives on and opens public beta to boot

Qik, a popular streaming mobile video service, has finally opened its public beta program and has released a slew of new features to go along with it. This is great news considering last month tech pundit Robert Scoble declared Qik all but dead in the wake newcomer Kyte. ...

Tags: Public Beta, Robert Scoble, Handset, Video, Integration, Qik, Kyte, Kyte.tv, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-07-20

NebuAd: Galileo or pariah?

So, it would seem we have found the outer limits of user tracking and ad-serving. At a House hearing yesterday, NebuAd ran into universal condemnation for its plans to monitor broadband customers' web visits and deliver targeting advertising, reports News.com's Declan McCullagh. Contemptible. Goes against everything...

Tags: Web, Advertisement, Cable Company, Internet Service Provider, Notice, NebuAd, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cable, Channel Management, Network Technology, Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Yahoo may revisit News Corp if AOL dims: source

Yahoo is unlikely to get into a bidding war over AOL with Microsoft because Yahoo could instead renew talks over News Corp's Web properties. NEW YORK--Yahoo is unlikely to get into a bidding war over AOL with Microsoft because if Microsoft gets in the way, Yahoo could instead renew...

Tags: America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft-Icahn Proposal, Financial Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Finance, Investment, Reuters, Yahoo, Microsoft, Microhoo, merger, News Corps, AOL

News items 2008-07-18

Are solar-energy materials in short supply?

At the Intersolar and Greentech Media conferences, J. Michael Horowitz of the Stanford Group moderates a discussion on solar-thermal technologies and the challenges solar-energy companies face when acquiring materials. Panelists include Bob Cart of GreenVolts, Andrew McMahan of SkyFuel, Robert Morgan of Ausra, Suvi Sharma of Solaria, and...

Tags: Material, Solar

Videos 2008-07-17

Evaluating the cost of solar

J. Michael Horowitz of the Stanford Group moderates a discussion on ‘green‘ finance and operational and maintenance costs associated with new solar projects at the Intersolar Conference 2008 and Greentech Media conference. Panel guests include Bob Cart of GreenVolts, Robert Morgan of Ausra, Suvi Sharma of Solaria, and John...

Tags: Cost, Conference, Financial Accounting, Finance, Solar

Videos 2008-07-16

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (exe)

In a world filled with cruel gods, mythical creatures, lost civilizations and a struggling human race, the mighty barbarian has finally seized the throne as king of Aquilonia. But Conan's rule is on the brink of chaos, spiraling towards the doom of ancient evils. In this twisted fantasy world, dark...

Tags: Funcom, Strategy, Desktops, Management, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-07-16

Cruel to be kind: FastWork.tv revista

I was aware that talking about FastTalk.tv would get a degree of attention. That's because I have close links to SAP. What I could never know is the extent to which it might influence change. Robert Scoble invited me to review the latest show to assess whether it is better...

Tags: Robert Scoble, SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Branding, Podcasts, Groupware, Sales Force Management, Sales, Marketing, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-14

Spammers announce World War III with spam emails packing malicious payloads

Spammers announce World War III with spam emails packing malicious payloadsSorry Nate - have to disagreePlease everyone - do not "spread the word" as Nate says it - I spend more time looking up these e-mails, and then convincing people that the e-mail they got was a hoax than I...

Tags: Spam, ReceiverNet technology, spammer, World War III, spam email, malicious payload, payload

Discussion threads 2008-07-14