networks
Semi-Electronic Bank Robbery
The AP has a story about an electronic bank robbery foiled when a bank employee pulled the plug on the robbers’ network connection. Apparently the robbers had gained physical access to the employee’s workstation at some point, and installed “advanced technical equipment” underneath the desk to remotely control the computer. I would guess that the [...]
IP Addresses: Personally Identifiable Information?
Peter Scharr, Germany’s Commissioner of Data Protection and head of the European Union’s privacy working group, has stated that information identified only by IP address must be considered personally identifiable information. As the AP article points out, this could have rather serious implications for search engines and many other electronic businesses, and RSnake is concerned [...]
Broadband Steps Backwards
The recent news from broadband providers seems to be all about how to make their product less appealing to customers. First of all, the AP reports that AT&T is still considering filtering backbone traffic. They say they’ve noticed the massive amount of copyrighted data being shared over P2P networks, and feel a need to do [...]
WPAD: Internet Explorer’s Worst Feature
If you run Internet Explorer, you may have noticed that often when you first load up IE and try to navigate to a web page, there’s a delay of a few seconds longer than there is on subsequent page loads. This is because IE is trying to automatically detect your proxy settings. Inside Internet Options [...]
A Bit About DNS
The Domain Name System is generally taken for granted. You put in a name, like perimetergrid.com, and you get back an IP address (at the time of this post, 66.33.198.185.) The addresses change sometimes, but it just works. However, it’s taken for granted so often that sometimes big security consequences lurk within. I’m not going [...]
