The Register - Comms: NetworksBiting the hand that feeds ITCenturyTel joins Charter in data pimping freeze- June 30, 2008 Do as Congress says Another American ISP has put the skids on its data pimping plans.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/30/centurytel_suspends_nebuad... Ankle-biting hackers storm net's overlords, hijack their domains- June 27, 2008 IANA and ICANN succumb to NetDevilz The websites of two of the net's most critical oversight organizations were hijacked by Turkish hackers who sent visitors to rogue pages that challenged the overseers' authority.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/27/iana_and_icann_hijacked/ AVG disguises fake traffic as IE6- June 26, 2008 Where's the ham and cheese Exclusive AVG has rejiggered the fake traffic it's spewing across the internet, causing new headaches for the world's webmasters.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/26/avg_disguises_fake_traffic... ICANN approves customized top-level domains- June 26, 2008 Don't like .com How about .thispagerocks ICANN, the organization that oversees internet addresses, will soon allow anyone to apply for his very own generic top-level domain (gTLD). In other words, you'll soon have the power to put almost anything at the end of your url, eschewing existing top-level domains such as ".com" or ".edu."http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/26/icann_approves_customized_... Charter suspends NebuAd data-pimping experiment- June 25, 2008 Squeaky wheels kill pilot - for now Charter Communications has suspended plans to deploy NebuAd's web usage tracking technology following howls of protest from critics who say that practice seriously compromised the privacy of subscribers.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/25/charter_suspends_nebuad_pi... Spam DDoS assault cuts off south Pacific state- June 25, 2008 (Un)happy Talking Citizens of the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific have been left without a functioning email systems following a denial of service attack on the country's sole ISP.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/25/email_ddos/ Heart Internet spreads the love passwords- June 24, 2008 Hosting firm suffers security aneurysm Web hosting outfit Heart Internet has caused security-conscious customers to skip a beat by sending them a handy text file email attachment containing other people's new passwords.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/24/heart_internet_password_ga... BT and Siemens slammed over prisoner call rates- June 24, 2008 Criminal cell phone charges BT and Siemens are facing a "super-complaint" over how much they charge prisoners to make phone calls.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/24/prison_charges_unfair/ FCC preps puritanical broadband- June 23, 2008 (Semi-)Advanced Wireless Services It's official. FCC boss Kevin Martin wants a free US-wide wireless broadband network. And he wants it equipped with "family-friendly" content filters.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/23/fcc_unveils_free_wireless_... Researcher: NebuAd forges Google data packets- June 23, 2008 Pimps data to third-party ad networks The man who caught Comcast blocking BitTorrents has now turned his attention to NebuAd, the Phorm-like behavioral ad targeting service that's tracking net surfers from inside multiple American ISPs.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/23/topolski_takes_on_nebuad/ |