Due to an official request from the federal authorities, Belgian Internet Service Providers are preventing their customers to access four very-controversial URLs (all of them pointing to the same website). When I say “controversial”, it means, regarding the Belgian law, “illegal”. This website publishes personal information about people who performed
Category: Net
DShield Web Honeypot – Alpha Preview Release
isc.sans.org announced today the Alpha availability of the DShield Web Honeypot: “The goal of the Web honeypot project is inline with the original DShield project, the data collected through the sensors feed the Dshield web database where human volunteers as well as machines pour through the data looking for abnormal
Do We Need a New Internet?
An article has been published this weekend in the NY Times about a hot topic: “Do we need a new Internet?“. To resume, the journalist, John Markoff, explained that the current Internet is not able to survive to attacks from malicious codes (viruses, malwares and other nice things). Unfortunately, deploying
France: IP Addresses are no Longer Considered as Private?
My last post was a little bit funny but the quote came from a French newspaper article about a judgment which can have an effect similar to an earthquake in France! It’s about the “privacy” aspect of IP addresses. A previous justice decision made by Court of Appel in Rennes
Google != Internet
As said in a previous post, during a few minutes this afternoon, Google decided to tag all the websites as “potentially dangerous”. This was quickly fixed but immediately reported by several sites: SANS ISC Slashdot The Register (I’m sure it will be a buzz in the coming hours!) Google is
Google Suddenly Decided that the Whole Internet is Dangerous?
What happened to Google this afternoon (16:00 GMT+1)? Suddenly, all websites are reported as “suspicious”:
DNS queries for “.”
As described by the Internet Storm Center in the last Sunday diary, my name server was also hit by this attack today. 380000 queries for “.” where sent to bind. For those who’re not experienced with the DNS protocol, querying for a dot (“.”), ask the name server to answer
IETF Draft: Security Assessment of the Internet Protocol version 4
First post of 2009, not too late to wish you all the best for this year! Even if IPv6 is at our doors, the version 4 of the Internet Protocol will still be present for a (very) long time. IP is an old protocol and lot of vulnerabilities were already
dns.be: More Anycasting
dns.be is responsible of the .be (Belgium) TLD. In a few words, this organization manages the administrative tasks to register domains in the .be zone and also maintains a set of .be-root servers which forward requests to the right name servers to resolve .be domains. At the moment, nine servers
Twitter Squatting at Our Doors?
Twitter is a system to perform “micro-blogging”. Like SMS, your posts are limited to 140 characters. A lot of interfaces exists to tweet from laptops, mobile phones, PDAs, … It’s really easy to tweet from everywhere. According to a post on /., squatting of Twitter IDs will become soon a