Israeli Researchers Map the Internet
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Researchers created a topographical map of the Net by enlisting more than 5,600 volunteers across 97 countries.
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A group of international researchers transmits data over a 10-Gigabit Ethernet link farther than anyone else to date.
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Researchers in the U.S. say they've successfully shown how attackers could compromise a network designed to make it harder to trace Web sites they are viewing.
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(InfoWorld) - Researchers in the U.S. say they've successfully shown how attackers could compromise a network designed to make itÂ harder to trace Internet surfersÂ and the Web sites they are viewing. The researchers, from the University of Colorado in Boulder, focused their efforts on The Onion Router (Tor) network. Tor software enables the creation of networks of servers that can send traffic over many different routes, masking its original source. The network offers users a greater degree of anonymity, since Web sites record the IP (Internet protocol) address of visiting machine, which could be linked to an individual user. Tor's creators say they were aware of the research, but using the network is still effective. The researchers, who consulted Tor project officials during their work, wrote on their Web site that they still feel it's the "most secure and usable privacy-enhancing system available." But the paper outlines the privacy concerns that could arise from using the techniques. "For example, law enforcement officers might use our techniques to cheaply and realistically track online predators," according to the paper. "The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and other organizations might use our techniques to link Web or torrent requests to their corresponding requesters." For the experiment, the researchers constructed their own isolated Tor network using 66 servers. They placed malicious servers within the network that were designed to draw a substantial portion of routing requests by misrepresenting their bandwidth capability. Then the researchers used an algorithm to link the "path" of a Web site request. More than 46 percent of the time, the paths could be calculated, revealing the source of the traffic, the paper said. But several attacks against Tor have been developed, wrote Shava Nerad, Tor's executive director, on the project's blog. "We have never seen such an attack 'in the wild,' and we think it no more likely that this paper would make such an attack easier or more likely than it was a few years ago when another version of it was documented," Nerad wrote. The Tor platform has been incorporated into applications such as Torpark, a browser based on Firefox that causes a computer's IP address to appear to regularly change. Â
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Killing off the application-independent internet Allot Communications, an Israeli outfit which does high-end bandwidth shaping and network traffic management gear, has brought out an even bigger Service Gateway device. Aimed at the service provider (SP) or large enterprise, this is capable of handling over 20 Gbit/s of traffic.â¦
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Editors: Shlomo Reifman and Samantha N. Wong Researchers: Joshua Brandt, Fei Mei Chan,  Andrew T. Gillies, Soo Jeong, Edward Knudsen,  Artie Kwok, John Ray and Jody Yen Programmer: Carl Subick
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JERUSALEM -- Israel's Holocaust museum launched a website yesterday giving Internet users access to biographical information on 3 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, the most comprehensive database of its kind. The Yad Vashem museum's site, which will be formally unveiled today, digitizes the center's 50 years of work compiling information on Holocaust victims. The list, the ...
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An underground movement of gay  Orthodox Jews in Israel has created a Web site to help  homosexuals cope with living in a strict, religious community  that is often hostile to their lifestyle.
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Internet users are traveling across the world from their living rooms: A new study finds that 45 percent of adult American online users have taken advantage of features that permit virtual tours of another location.
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Determining geographic locations based on Internet IP offers localization services and brings together user communities without the need for GPS receivers or complicated configuration switching.
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A Holocaust survivor discovers how a new internet database is helping to record the names of death camp victims.
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Alternative form of high-speed Internet access makes its way to U.S. homes.
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Text of report by web version of Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv on 22 May  The kosher Internet has been launched.
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Amsterdam has the world's busiest   Internet exchange, thanks to nuclear physicists and   mathematicians who in the 1980s connected their network needs   with the academic belief that knowledge needs to be free.
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Researchers in the U.S. say they've shown how a network designed to make it harder to trace Internet surfers could be compromised.
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Cernet2, a high-speed internet backbone, connects 25 universities in 20 cities. Cernet, or the China Education and Research Network, has been able to achieve a monstrous speed of up to 40 gigabits per second during a trial run conducted on 7 December.
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Study exposes emerging tribes of social network sites