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Comment Re:FDC Servers (Score 1) 375

by hippie-joel (#38480224) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Inexpensive VPS Provider?
While it's nice that FDC offers unlimited bandwidth and does have very responsive support, back when I had a dedicated server with them I never had any luck pushing the connection above 2-3Mbps when I was paying for 100Mbps. Since moved to SoftLayer, haven't looked back since.
Security

Submission + - 1000s of Vulnerabilities Detected In FAAs Apps

Submitted by ausekilis
ausekilis writes:

A government audit has pinpointed more than 3,800 vulnerabilities — 763 of which are high-risk — in the Federal Aviation Administration's Web-based air traffic control system applications, including some that could potentially put air travel at risk.

The report continues...

And the FAA's Air Traffic Organization, which heads up ATC operations, received more than 800 security incident alerts in fiscal 2008, but still had not fixed 17 percent of the flaws that caused them, "including critical incidents in which hackers may have taken over control of ATO computers," the report says.

Source: DarkReading

Security

Submission + - Viewing Porn At Work Leads To Hacker Conviction (darkreading.com)

Submitted by safesorry
safesorry writes: Talk about a tale of woe: Richard Wolf, a lonely guy looking for love in all the wrong places, used his work computer to visit the Adult Friend Finder website and upload personal nudes to prospective "friends." Now he's being charged with a law targeted at employees who steal data or access information they shouldn't.
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Submission + - Adblock Plus Maker Proposes Change To Help Sites (informationweek.com) 1

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Dotnaught writes: "Wladimir Palant, maker of the Firefox extension Adblock Plus, on Monday proposed a change in his software that would allow publishers, with the consent of Adblock Plus users, to prevent their ads from being blocked. Palant suggested altering his software to recognize a specific meta tag as a signal to bring up an in-line dialog box noting the site publisher's desire to prevent ad blocking. The user would then have to choose to respect that wish or not."
Social Networks

Facebook Cuts Off Pirate Bay Links 137

Posted by CmdrTaco from the hyperlinks-are-bad-mmm-kay dept.
narramissic writes "Citing legal reasons, Facebook has ended its brief relationship with The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay added a 'Share on Facebook' button around two weeks ago to its site that allowed its users to post links to small information files on Facebook that are used to download audio, video, etc. via BitTorrent. Facebook is now blocking those 'bookmarklets' as well as any links from The Pirate Bay, said Peter Sunde, of The Pirate Bay. Sunde said he received an e-mail from Facebook justifying the action because of the legal proceedings against Sunde and three others. The men are awaiting return of a verdict on April 17 from a trial that concluded early last month in Stockholm. They are charged with helping to make available material under copyright."
Privacy

Privacy In BitTorrent By Hiding In the Crowd 240

Posted by CmdrTaco from the even-kids-can-still-find-waldo dept.
pinguin-geek writes "Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University have identified a new 'guilt-by-association' threat to privacy in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems that would enable an eavesdropper to accurately classify groups of users with similar download behavior. While many have pointed out that the data exchanged over these connections can reveal personal information about users, the researchers shows that only the patterns of connections — not the data itself — is sufficient to create a powerful threat to user privacy. To thwart this threat, they have released SwarmScreen, a publicly available, open source software that restores privacy by masking a user's real download activity in such a manner as to disrupt classification."

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