On the Open Internet, a Web of Dark Alleys
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The ability of terrorists and other dark elements to engage in covert communications online remains a daunting security problem, and one that may prove impossible to solve.
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NEW DELHI -- At least for a while, the World Wide Web wasn't so worldwide.
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Security research, Web 2.0 style The mystery over a cluster of poisoned websites distributing a toxic malware cocktail may be better understood but it's still not solved.â¦
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Thereâs nothing like a little regulatory scrutiny to get Internet companies talking about privacy. Even if some of their words ring somewhat hollow.
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It seems hard to imagine, but the Internet was still a wild frontier just a decade ago.  But at a leading industry conference of the time a group of seers offered some remarkably prescient predictions of what was to come.
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Asian countries are reeling from cuts in underwater internet fiber optic cables that have left millions in the e-dark. While the internet feels crucial, one internet analyst says such outages are the cost of cheap internet access fees.
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For years, the Internet's technical constraints went hand-in-hand with the realities of Internet usage. At first, most people viewed Web pages but did little to create or change them. Web journals, photo sites and video sharing didn't come until later. Even when users had a need to send information &#151; an e-mail here, a shopping transaction there &#151; the amount of data was small.
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For all Wi-Fi has done to bring people online, it's also opened them up to potential risk.
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The service is intended to help users and system administrators block sites that might be dangerous or undesirable, as well as helping users find their way around the Internet.
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Andrew Keen points out in his provocative new book that Web 2.0, which incorporates user-generated content, social networking and interactive sharing, has a dark side.
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Wired News, with help from readers, compiles and ranks the internet's worst offenders.
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Troublesome Trojan horses, virulent worms, nasty viruses--sometimes it may seem like the Internet exists just to let the bad guys attack your PC.
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Forget Internet2. The National LambdaRail is the most ambitious network research project going. But can it save the optical networking industry?
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For those who have been technology enthusiasts for years, there is a familiar war brewing in the technology industry. Mozilla, an open-source community of developers and testers that was started by Netscape
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Coincidence or foresight? A mysteriously prescient note about a wrestlerâs wifeâs death highlights the predictive possibilities of the internet.
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The web as your auld grannie might have wished it
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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