Ireland blocks calls to 13 countries to thwart internet scam
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Ireland&#39;s telecom regulator said this week that is taking &quot;extraordinary&quot; measures to protect internet users from rogue autodialer programs that hijack their modems and run up long-distance phone charges by suspending direct dialing to 13 countries, most
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Eleven firms are barred as part of action against scams which left dial-up net users in the UK with big bills.
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In an effort to stop scams that cause unwitting Internet users to be charged premium rates for calls placed by software surreptitiously installed on their PCs, Ireland is going to block outgoing calls to 13 countries.
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An international investigation has netted 135 arrests in connection with illegal telemarketing operations, many of which targeted &quot;the elderly, the needy and the vulnerable,&quot; Attorney General John Ashcroft said yesterday.
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p2pnet.net News:- A business in Ireland found it had unknowingly racked up nearly $15,000 in calls. Other modem users found they had charges for calls to the South Pacific.
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A grainy video made in Northern Ireland has been posted on the Web showing the iPhone being unlocked and being used to make calls with a carrier other than AT&T.
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The Bush-Cheney reelection campaign has barred people outside the United States from viewing its Web site following an electronic attack that took down the campaign's Internet address for six hours last week, according  to computer security experts.
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Â· Leniency urged for failure to declare donations  Â· New attack over illegal immigrants' NI numbers
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A century-old tariff should not be extended to Internet phone calls, the companies say.
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(InfoWorld) - Security researchers at SPI Labs are warning iPhone users not to use a special feature that lets them dial telephone numbers over the Web using the iPhone's Safari browser. The feature was created to give iPhone users a simple way to dial phone numbers listed on Web pages, but according to SPI, the feature could be misused. [ Blog:Â Researchers point to iPhone security riskÂ ] Attackers could exploit a bug in this feature to trick a victim into making phone calls to expensive "900" numbers or even keep track of phone calls made by the victim over the Web, said Billy Hoffman, lead researcher with SPI Labs. The iPhone could even be stopped from dialing out, or set to dial out endlessly, he said. "Because this vulnerability can be launched from Web sites, everybody who has an iPhone has the potential to get exploited," Hoffman said In order for the attack to work, the bad guys would have to either trick iPhone users into visiting a malicious Web site or make a legitimate Web site send untrustworthy information to the iPhone using what's known as a cross-site scripting attack. "Any time someone could control the content that's getting sent to the iPhone [the possibility of an attack] exists," Hoffman said. SPI is not releasing detailed information on how the Web dialing feature could be exploited, but the company contacted Apple on July 6 and is working with the iPhone maker to prevent these types of attacks, Hoffman said. Apple could not be reached immediately for comment. Because Apple is encouraging software developers to write Web applications for the iPhone that use Safari, the browser has come under particular scrutiny from iPhone hackers. Researchers had previously noted that Safari could be used to misdial numbers, but Hoffman's post suggests that this could be done more easily than previously thought. Not everybody thought the SPI findings were groundbreaking, including Dave Aitel, CTO with Immunity Inc. "If you can make calls from the Web browser, you can make fake calls from the Web browser," he said. So should iPhone users stop using the Web to place calls? "Yes," said Aitel. "If they know a lot of hackers and are a special target."
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The Bush-Cheney reelection campaign has barred people outside the United States from viewing its Web site following an electronic attack that took down the campaign&#39;s Internet address for six
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Calls to 13 other countries will be blocked to thwart auto-dialer software.
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Trying to outlaw using fake information to open e-mail accounts or set up websites, some European nations could run afoul of privacy advocates. By the Associated Press.
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Irish banks unite Irish banks have responded to internet scams such as phishing by setting up a forum to share information on high-tech crime.â¦
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Travelers in all the European Union's  27 member countries can call the same emergency telephone  number -- but many of them don't know what it is.
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Businesses say 'no way' Irish businesses are holding back from taking advantage of modern technologies because they are concerned about potential risks.â¦
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - You can stop staring hopefully at that phone, Bono. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will not be calling.