11 posts and columns on IP address

Cisco Security Survey Finds Windows Vulnerabilities And Spam Decreasing

in Enterprise on January 20, 2011 at 6:40 am PT

Still no rest for the weary computer security professional. Smartphones and tablets are coming to the office and creating new opportunities for trouble.

The Long, Weird Cops and Robbers Tale of Gizmodo, Apple and the 4G iPhone

in Media on May 14, 2010 at 1:43 pm PT

Here’s the definitive tale, so far, of iPhonegate.

Map Strips a Bit of Anonymity From Chatroulette

in News on March 11, 2010 at 11:00 am PT

A new site that maps users of Chatroulette is taking a little of the anonymity out of the random video-chat service. The Laughing Squid blog points us to the site, Chatroulettemap.com, which puts users–and their images–on a Google map, based on their IP address.

World War WAN: Google Hack Traced to Schools in China

in News on February 19, 2010 at 5:33 am PT

The online attacks that inspired Google’s “new approach to China” have been traced to computers at two educational institutions in the country, including one with ties to the Chinese military. Anonymous sources close to the investigation into the attacks, which targeted dozens of American corporations, tell the New York Times they originated at Shanghai Jiaotong University and the Lanxiang Vocational School.

No More Bing Brother, Says Microsoft

in News on January 19, 2010 at 11:05 am PT

Google has long claimed that the server log data it collects are a critical driver of innovation. Over the years, to appease privacy advocates, the company has tweaked its treatment of those data and the length of time it stores them. Google continues to collect IP addresses, though it makes them anonymous after nine months. This may soon change. And not because of any initiative on Google’s part but because of one by Microsoft.

On the Internet, Everybody Knows You’re a Name-Caller: Google Unmasks the “Skank” Blogger

in Media on August 19, 2009 at 8:21 am PT

Want to call someone a “skank” on the Web while remaining anonymous? Might want to rethink that: Following an order from a New York court, Google has outed a woman who insulted a former model using the company’s Blogger service.
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Chinese Hackers Target NYPD Too, Says Police Commissioner

in News on April 23, 2009 at 10:16 am PT

New York City’s police department joins the Dalai Lama, the Joint Strike Fighter and the U.S. electrical grid as the latest alleged target of Chinese hackers. New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday that hackers make at least 70,000 attempts every day to access computer systems of the New York Police Department, the largest police force in the U.S.

Swedish File-Sharers Mull VPN (Virtual Pirate Network)

in News on April 2, 2009 at 9:54 am PT

If Sweden’s Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive was crafted to scare the hell out of the country’s Internet population, it seems to have had the desired affect. Swedish Internet traffic dropped by a third on Wednesday after the law, which allows copyright holders to force ISPs to divulge the IP addresses of computers sharing copyrighted material, was implemented.
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I Guess IP Addresses Are Personal, After All …

in News on July 15, 2008 at 2:15 pm PT

As Google, Viacom, and Viacom PR flack Jeremy Zweig will tell you, user IDs and Internet protocol addresses aren’t personally identifiable. So any public outrage over the logging database YouTube is handing over to Viacom under court order is really just the product of so much misinformation and paranoia.

Seriously, You Have No Privacy. Get Over It.

in News on July 3, 2008 at 8:32 am PT

So much for privacy on YouTube. The federal judge presiding over Viacom’s $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against Google and YouTube denied a motion for the pair to produce their source code Wednesday. “YouTube and Google should not be made to place this vital asset in hazard merely to allay speculation,” U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton wrote. Apparently he didn’t feel quite as strongly about the privacy of YouTube users, because he felt entirely comfortable turning that over to the media company.