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[ 06-Aug-01 4:11pm ] As of this morning, there are estimated to be ~1Million MS IIS servers out there that have been hacked by Code Red II over the weekend. Each one has a wide open backdoor that could be exploited by a script kiddie. Is this serious? Should we be worried? Well when I got up and turned on my gateway, the cable modem was already blipping away, even though I had nothing attached to it. It looks suspiciously like the NTLWorld system has quite a few hacked servers on it. Between that and the SirCam virus huge amounts of bandwidth are being consumed for no good reason.
What has been interesting has been the spread (or lack of it) of information about the worm in the media. For most of the weekend, the only discussion was on Slashdot. The Register finally picked it up last night and Kuro5hin this morning. So clearly, midnight friday looks like a great time to unleash something like this. If you're foolish enough to run IIS, the patch and information is here. [ 06-Aug-01 8:50am ] PhysicsWeb Features - The physics of the Web : Statistical mechanics is offering new insights into the structure and dynamics of the Internet, the World Wide Web and other complex interacting systems. Heavy article that examines the fine structure of the internet from a network math point of view. One side effect is to explain why Supernodes in P2P systems may well be a good idea. Sample Statistic, "Any two documents chosen at random are a maximum of 19 clicks apart"
[ 06-Aug-01 8:46am ] 05 Aug 2001 Risks of the Passport Single Signon Protocol : Risks of the Passport Single Signon Protocol An excellent analysis of the security risks inherent in MS Passport. All the more pertinent as Code Red II sweeps across the internet.
[ 05-Aug-01 2:19pm ] EE Times: Cipher attack delive - EE Times: Cipher attack delivers heavy blow to WLAN security. [Tomalak] I'm fascinated by the effect maths experts can have on the world when so much of our lives are becoming dependent on strong encryption. The end result of this is that wireless LANs are inherently insecure, which just means that you have to use strong encryption methods on top of them. But then this is hardly surprising. It doesn't have any great impact on home use, but could be a concern for corporations. If, of course, they have anything worth stealing.
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[ 05-Aug-01 9:45am ] 04 Aug 2001 Microsoft Research Netscan - Cross post Networks : Cross post Networks Another cool mapping project. This one maps cross-posts between usenet groups.
And Antarcti.ca as well. [ 04-Aug-01 8:23pm ] [ 04-Aug-01 8:19pm ] BEA updates WebLogic Server for services - ZDNet Aug 4 2001 12:24AM ET [ Internet Europe news]
BANG! BEA build SOAP, WSDL, UDDI support into the latest release. This is significant when so many B2B packages and sites are built on top of BEA. n/a
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[ 03-Aug-01 8:54am ] Netscape alumni to launch P2P company - ZDNet Aug 2 2001 9:41PM ET [ moreover... P2P] Hmmm. The Kontiki announcement. Peer to peer, swarmed, video distribution and cacheing? Sounds like the Freedom Controller. from Jamby.
[ 03-Aug-01 8:09am ] The jet powered beer cooler : What follows is my story about a shed, a warm beer and a home made jet engine Well it made me laugh! A Kiwi explains how to cool your beer in the shed, by building an LPG jet engine and using the cooling gas cylinder in a bucket of water to cool beer cans. Even more cool is the jet engine built out of an old car Turbo.
[ 03-Aug-01 7:50am ] 02 Aug 2001 In July my RSS file has been downloaded 15741 times . That's 134Mbyte, 55% percent of my total traffic. This is way to much, if you compare that to the 2617 times my html weblog has been downloaded last month. [w3future.com weblog] There's some concern that publishing RSS files will increase your traffic and this does tend to bear it out. The issue is what you do with it. Aggregators are generally pretty careful to only collect the data at most once per hour (and usually store it locally before serving it up again). What's awkward is that people would like to display a box on their websites of other people's feeds. If this is created on the fly every hit on their website is a hit on the feeds source as well. So the feed gets N hits. We do need some tools to easily do this, but it needs local cacheing to do it properly.
[ 02-Aug-01 2:13pm ] Line56.com | Lead Story : "Siebel was out of our range and it's turning out that Pivotal is kind of out of our range too. We want to do some customization for a Web-based eCRM package. Pivotal can do that but it will still cost about $200,000, not what we had in mind." I'm constantly amazed by the cost figures for B2B software and especially CRM and SCM software. And that's before you factor in the consultancy and implementation costs. And when you get the software you find you can't customize it without spending the same again? Contrast this with open source and GPL, were customization is always possible and the software costs are essentially zero. The problem with this picture is that software companies need to live too.
[ 02-Aug-01 2:00pm ] newsisfree.com : FREE EXPORT DISABLED!!
Really sad to see newsisfree.com (temporarily) stop the free export of RSS. It's been a great source of RSS for 6 months. Let's hope it's back soon. 01 Aug 2001 OXO International : Terms of Use This is one of the best damned "Terms of Use" contracts I've seen. So much so that I'll just say "Me Too" and tell you that it applies to voidstar.com as well. With the notable exception that "All Rights are Reversed" so go ahead and "Steal this website" and all the text on it. But don't blame me if the little people who live behind your skirting boards steal all your socks if you do.
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