p2pnet World Headlines â Oct 1, 2009
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German police break up Internet child porn ring Reuters
German police said Wednesday they had broken up an international child pornography network that exchanged pedophile images on the Internet and sexually abused children. Police raided the homes and workplaces of 121 suspected members of the German-language porn network across Germany on Tuesday evening, arresting nine of its suspected leaders. Authorities in Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Bulgaria, Canada and the United States simultaneously carried out raids on 15 further suspected members. Austrian police said at a news conference in Vienna that 22 people worldwide had been arrested. Members of the network had abused their own children or those of their partners and friends, police said.
Italian Appeals Court Rules against Pirate Bay Billboard
Italy’s Court of Cassation has ruled against BitTorrent tracker the Pirate Bay in a decision that has been greeted by the country’s recording industry. Italian access to the Swedish file-sharing site had originally been blocked in August 2008 by a court in the northern town of Bergamo. Swedish supporters of Pirate Bay proceeded to denounce Italy as a “Fascist state” and the company managed to get the block lifted on appeal, but the Court of Cassation has now overturned that decision. Nor is this the only legal headache for Pirate Bay in Italy. Earlier this year the country’s major label representative body, FIMI, along with the anti-piracy organisation, FPM, filed a â¬1 ($1.6 million) million damages lawsuit against the site on behalf of the Italian music industry.
Cisco Buys Norwegian Firm for $3 Billion New York Times
Cisco Systems continued to show just how serious it is about video conferencing, announcing late Wednesday night the $3 billion acquisition of Tandberg, a Norwegian video communications company. Cisco sells expensive, room-sized video conferencing systems to companies known as TelePresence systems. Tandberg has similar technology but also sells smaller-sized, cheaper conferencing units. In addition, Tandberg has specialized software for managing video conferencing systems and for creating connections between systems that rely on different underlying technology.
SSL spoof bug still haunts IE, Safari, Chrome The Register
Nine weeks after a hacker demonstrated how to spoof authentication certificates for virtually any website on the internet, users of Internet Explorer and many other applications remain susceptible because Microsoft hasn’t patched the underlying vulnerability. The bug, which resides in an application programming interface known as CryptoAPI, causes IE and other applications that rely on the code to be tricked by fraudulent secure sockets layer certificates. It can be exploited to impersonate websites, virtual private networks, and email servers by adding a null character to the prefix of an address in a legitimate SSL credential.
Secret Service: Facebook poll no threat to Obama Associated Press
The Secret Service has determined that a juvenile was behind the online survey that asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated, an agency spokesman said Thursday. No criminal charges will be filed against the juvenile or the juvenile’s parents, spokesman Edwin Donovan said. Donovan would not identify the names of the child or parents or say where they are from. The poll, posted Saturday on Facebook, was taken off the popular social networking site quickly after company officials were alerted to its existence. But, like any threat against the president, Secret Service agents took no chances. The poll asked respondents “Should Obama be killed?” The choices: No, Maybe, Yes, and Yes if he cuts my health care.
Exploit published for SMB2 vulnerability in Windows Heise Online
A fully functional exploit for the security vulnerability in the SMB2 protocol implementation has been published. It can be used to discover and attack vulnerable Windows machines remotely. By integrating the exploit into the Metasploit exploit toolkit, attackers have access to a wide range of attack options, ranging from issuing a warning to setting up a convenient backdoor on a user’s system. aWindows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and the Windows 7 Release Candidate are all vulnerable, although the bug has been fixed in the final version of Windows 7. Microsoft has not yet released a patch for the security vulnerability, which was first disclosed nearly three weeks ago. The software giant has released one-click instructions for disabling the vulnerable SMB2 protocol, but there are sure to be many users who fail to follow them.
Virtual composer makes beautiful musicâand stirs controversy Ars Technica
Can a computer program really generate musical compositions that are good enough to have been written by humans? Professor David Cope thinks so, and has dedicated decades of research to the topic of artificial intelligence in music, which has resulted in not one, but two controversial composing engines.
Web Survey Finds Speed Is Quickest Overseas New York Times
The performance of broadband Internet connections has surged ahead in many countries in the last year, even before government stimulus packages aimed at upgrading networks take full effect, according to a study to be published Thursday. The most advanced broadband connections are in South Korea, Japan and Sweden, according to the study, conducted by the Saïd Business School at Oxford and the University of Oviedo in Spain, and sponsored by Cisco Systems, the telecommunications equipment maker. The work differs from some other efforts to assess how countries stack up on the basis of broadband, a form of high-speed Internet connection, because it measures the performance of these connections, rather than simply comparing market penetration rates. As broadband has become more widespread â some governments want to turn it into a universal service like electricity or water â the quality of connections has grown more important.
House members seek ways to stop Internet bullying Associated Press
House members struggled Wednesday for a way to stop Internet bullying of children without violating free speech. Bullying has always been mean-spirited, but a House Judiciary subcommittee was told that federal law does not make it a crime to engage in “cyberbullying” that becomes destructive to its young victims. The worst examples resulted in child suicides. Rep. Linda Sanchez’ bill would make severe electronic bullying a crime, defined it as repeated, hostile and severe communication made with an intent to harm.
October, 2009
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October 1st, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Another cop used police computers to abuse the privacy of private citizens:
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Montreal+charged+with+unlawful+access/2054718/story.html
According to a published report, Lauzon was investigated after she accessed the Centre de renseignements policiers du Québec, a provincial database connecting various sources of information. She is alleged to have accessed the database on the request of her father, 68-year-old Fernand Lauzon, a man who was arrested earlier this year in Operation Axe, a police roundup of people who dealt drugs for the Hells Angels.
Lawful access, ripe for abuse by those who claim they won’t abuse anything.