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Amazon’s EC2 Having Problems With Spam and Malware

Slash — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:14:00 +0000

jamie pointed out a story about the recent problems Amazon’s EC2 service has been having with malware and spam. “EC2 space is now actively blocked by Outblaze, and has been listed by Spamhaus in their PBL list [...] However as Seth Breidbart noted in the comments, ‘note that Amazon will terminate the instance. That means that the spammer just creates another instance, which gets a new IP address, and continues spamming.’ True enough – as described, instance termination simply isn’t good enough.”

Install Django and Build Your First App

Slash — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:00:00 +0000

Django, meet Webmonkey. Webmonkey, meet Django. Django brings a web framework that allows you to easily and quickly build a professional-looking website. Webmonkey brings the tutorials to show you how to build your first one. Now that everyone is acquainted, let’s build a blog and blog this party.

Originally Syndicated via RSS from Wired: Top Stories

Bell Canada Official Speaks Out On Throttling

Slash — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:07:00 +0000

westcoaster004 brings to our attention an interview with Mirko Bibic, head of regulatory affairs for Bell Canada, discussing the ISP’s traffic-shaping practices. This follows news we discussed recently that a class action lawsuit was filed against Bell for their involvement in traffic shaping. Bibic reiterates that internet congestion is a real problem and claims that the throttling had nothing to do with Bell’s new video service. CBC News quotes him saying: “If no measures were taken, then 700,000 customers would have been affected by congestions during peak periods. We want to obviously take steps to make sure that doesn’t happen. So this network management is, as we’ve stated, one of the ways to address the issue of congestion during peak periods. At the end of the day, the wholesale ISPs are our customers and we generate revenue [from them], so we want to make sure we’re serving them to the best of our ability as well.”

World of Warcraft’s Brand New Rootkit

Slash — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:59:00 +0000

Captain Kirk writes “We all know that World of Warcraft has checked for hacks to ensure a safe game environment for all players. The latest version of these checks goes beyond anything seen so far in that what is being checked is now completely encrypted. Obviously this hits bot writers as can be seen from these complaints, But it also strikes at the privacy of all users. Now Blizzard has a tool that is encrypted and can run any type of scan, transfer any file or edit any document on your computer. That can’t be right.”