For many years much of Internet community has continued to point a finger at ISPs, claiming they’ve turned a blind eye towards the botnet problem. While sometimes their arguments seem well founded, often, those claiming ISPs are “feeding us dirty water” don’t fully understand the ISP’s predicament. I hope to shine a bit of light [...]
A couple of third-party reports on the Storm Worm (aka Peacomm, aka Nuwar, aka Tibs, aka Zheltin, aka CME-711). The first is a detailed binary analysis of the malcode involved in the Storm Worm from Frank Boldewin. This is one of the only such analysis made public that I have seen; everyone else has their [...]
I’ve been reading lately about how Comcast has “clarified” their “excessive use” policy for broadband users. In Comcast Clarifies High Speed Extreme Use Policy (GameDaily.biz), the company says it’s bout 90 GB in a month, or “the equivalent of 30,000 songs, 250,000 pictures or 13 million emails in a month. That adds up to about [...]
