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  IT: MediaDefender Explains Itself 2008-06-01 16:35

Posted by kdawson on Sunday June 01, @04:35PM
from the smurfs-for-hire dept.
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Wired has an interview with MediaDefender in which they try to explain why they attacked Revision3, which uses BitTorrent to host its own content. Somehow it eluded MediaDefender that they had injected fake content into Revision3's tracker, so when Revision3 changed configuration to forbid this injection, MediaDefender's systems saw it as a pirate tracker with lots of illegal content (which MediaDefender had put there) and attacked. In other words, everything they did was intentional except for the choice of target. Given that they have 9 Gbps of bandwidth dedicated to denial-of-service attacks against torrent trackers, all anyone needs to do is to trick them into attacking a hospital or government facility. MediaDefender has never been very competent, after all."
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 [+] story, it, security, mediadefender, mafiadefender, mafiaadefender, p2p

  Martian Volcanoes May Not Be Extinct[->] 2007-10-18 00:20 ceoyoyo

Submitted by ceoyoyo on Thursday October 18 2007, @12:20AM
ceoyoyo writes "The Tharsis volcanoes on Mars show evidence they may have erupted within the last two million years and may still be dormant, not extinct. The three volcanoes also show evidence of erupting in a chain, much like the Hawaiian islands, with the southernmost showing the oldest lava flows and the northernmost the youngest. On Earth chains of volcanoes are produced when the crust moves over a magma plume in the mantle. On Mars, since there is no tectonic activity, the researchers theorized that the magma plumes themselves move under the fixed crust."
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/071017-mars-magma.html
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 [+] submission, science, space, interesting, slownewsday

  IT: Skype Worm Infects Windows PCs 2007-09-11 15:42

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 11 2007, @03:42PM
from the footsteps-of-msn-and-yahoo dept.
walterbays writes with news of a worm spreading to Windows PCs through Skype's IM. The worm is variously called Ramex.a and Pykspa.d. A poster on a Skype forum explains how to remove it. "After hijacking contacts from an infected machine's Skype software, it sends messages to those people that include a live link. Recipients who blithely click on the URL — which poses as a JPG image but is actually a download to a file with the .scr extension — wind up infected."

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