Can you really be traced from your IP address ?
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 03:17:57 -0700

Identifying individuals using nothing more than their IP address has become a key part of anti-piracy and criminal investigations. But just how reliable is such IP address evidence? British courts have recently begun to cast doubt over its validity. ...

10 must-have utilities for small networks
Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:43:46 -0700

You'll find a network map for displaying all of the devices on your network, and vital information about each one, including its IP address , hardware configuration, and software configuration. You also get some very good troubleshooters for fixing ...

Should everybody be allocated at least one IPv6 address ?
Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:17:00 -0700

396140812571321 68796771975168 (this rounds up to 40 octillion addresses each). I propose giving not 40 octillion, not 1 trillion, not 1 million but just one single globally unique randomly generated IP address to each inhabitant of earth (now and into ...

Ripe ncc members Secure their Resources Using Certification
Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:42:47 -0700

By Mirjam Kuehne Resource certification verifies that an Internet number resource ( IP address space or autnonomous system number) has legitimately been allocated by a Regional Internet Registry. It will also benefit every network operator and Internet ...

One Way or Another, Federal Privacy Legislation Looms
Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:50:02 -0700

But one example of a potential difference ... the Speier bill, I believe, says IP addresses are personal information. I don't believe the draft Kerry bill expressly says that. Now, the definition of personal information it uses could be interpreted to ...

Comcast launches gadget tech support service
Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:32:57 -0700

Its Xfinity Signature Support will tackle "anything that gets an IP address ," said Mitch Bowling, Comcast's senior vice president of new business. The service, announced in early March and now being rolled out here, is offered as a subscription and ...

IPv4 address traders delay the Internet's collapse
Thu, 31 Mar 2011 06:54:33 -0700

By Larry Seltzer | Published March 31, 2011, 9:50 AM When Microsoft recently agreed to buy 66624 IPv4 addresses from bankrupt Nortel you might have asked, at least I did, how this was possible. No mechanism existed in the IP address allocation system ...

Do SIDs matter anymore? Do we really need Sysprep for VDI?
Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:56:34 -0700

I was working in a new sandboxed lab environment, where I had cloned an existing server, changed the server ID and IP address , and started building servers. The first server cloned became a domain controller, the next a management server, ...

Cyber-observers for democracy in action
Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:49:15 -0700

This may not directly translate to that many users as multiple users from one organisation could have accessed the web-cast using the same IP address . According to sources with access to this cyber-data, the maximum 'unique client IPs' were registered ...

Blue Cat Networks' Proteus IP Address Management (IPAM) Solution Extends ...
Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:03:27 -0700

Thousands of organizations rely on Microsoft Windows servers to provide critical DNS and DHCP services for their internal systems and users; however Windows provides no native IP Address Management and only limited administrative capabilities. ...

Army Reserves Medic Set for Plea Hearing in Child Pornography Case
Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:02:24 -0700

Last December, investigators said they issued an emergency subpoena to Yahoo! for additional account information and IP addresses related to Medovich's e-mail address. The new data led the authorities to issue a subpoena to Comcast Corp. to obtain ...

Sacramento spa worker arraigned in suspected rape of unconscious client
Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:03:20 -0700

The agent traced the IP address akin to a computer's telephone number to Dwyer's address, the affidavit states. After receiving the warrant, agents searched Dwyer's home and the health spa, located at the same address, in August. ...

UID may double up as IP address , mobile number
Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:18:19 -0700

Your unique identity number (UID) may soon double up as your computer's Internet Protocol ( IP ) address a numerical label assigned to a device participating in a computer network. The Internet is expected to run out of IP addresses the current ...

Ensuring Online Privacy
Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:05:06 -0700

No warrant, no legal jurisdiction, no due process, just give up the information, namely the IP address of the offender. I ask you, how is it even possible for the government to know about these apparent discretions in such a short amount of time? ...

IP registry goes to Defcon 1 as IPv4 doomsday nears
Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:32:24 -0700

The provider of IP addresses to the Asia Pacific region has activated a major change in the way it allocates them after becoming the first registry to deplete its number of older addresses to fewer than 17 million. APNIC said the depletion of all but ...

Beth Merkleson
Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:29:47 -0700

The carrier would put the IP in the pool to be reissued. Senator Staton would then turn on his Blackberry (using the same carrier) and be issued Beth Merkleson's previously owned IP address . He then read his email and visited the site. ...

Postcode of IP addresses available to advertisers
Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:10:18 -0700

Advertisers could be able to track internet users by their postcode through their IP address , according to one expert. Speaking to PC Pro, the computer scientist Yong Wang claimed that IP addresses could be tracked to within 100 metres through the ...

Barracuda admits mistake after hack
Tue, 12 Apr 2011 04:49:34 -0700

The hackers raided the database for names and email addresses of leads, channel partners and some Barracuda employees. The attack utilised one IP address initially to do reconnaissance and was joined by another IP address about three hours later, ...

Kayak partners with Student Universe .com for private student fares
Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:58:12 -0700

The travel metasearch site will begin displaying Student Universe .com fares for users registered with an .edu email address or if they are detected to be searching from a university IP address . Student Universe .com strikes private fares deals with ...

More machines than man, now
Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:29:44 -0700

IPv6 with its substantial address space of 128 bits as compared to 32 bits in IPv4 will provide virtually unlimited IP addresses for the future, expanding the number of possible addresses from approximately four billion with IPv4 to roughly 340 ...