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Peer Loses Cybercrime Fight
News A Conservative peer's attempt to amend a law that could criminalise IT professionals has failed. The peer said it was unlikely that his amendment would now be carried into law. The Earl of Northesk's attempt to introduce amendments to the Computer...
[July 14, 2006, 16:25]
Labour Peer Bangs Cyberterrorism Drum
News New legislation is needed to protect the UK's essential systems from the threat of attack from cybercriminals and terrorists, a Labour peer claimed on Tuesday. Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe conference in London, Lord Harris of Haringey...
[April 27, 2005, 15:45]
NetProfiler: Profiling Wide-Area Networks Using Peer Cooperation
White Papers This paper proposes a system called NetProfiler, in which end hosts share network performance information with other hosts over a peer-to-peer network. Operators have little visibility into the end users' network experience while end users have...
[April 5, 2006, 0:00]
Interneer Case Study: The World Bank/PEER Consultants
White Papers PEER Consultants understood that this project required software capable of making all documents, written communications and assessments of project-related information accessible anywhere in the world through one central system.
[November 1, 2006, 23:00]
Peer-to-peer Conference Rescheduled
News A major conference into peer-to-peer technology will take place later this year, having been postponed because of last week's terrorist attacks in America. The O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer and Web Services Conference will now take place in Washington D.C...
[September 21, 2001, 7:30]
First Responders Get Robust, Peer-to-Peer Emergency Communications Capability
White Papers The new CAP has 70 percent fewer lines of code, uses industry-standard protocols, and enables encrypted peer-to-peer networking among emergency responders. ST Electronics (Info-Software Systems) provides command and control systems for law...
[May 22, 2007, 0:00]
Peer Loses Cybercrime Fight
Talkback Just realised that this is built upon their proven track record, after all by making owning sporting guns illegal, the government stopped all gun crime at a stroke. This well thought out IT legislation will obviously stop all illegal computer...
[July 17, 2006, 12:56]
Homeland Security Gets In The Groove: Peer-to-Peer Software Helps Public Safety Officials Communicate Securely
White Papers While revelers celebrated in Times Square or enjoyed the Tournament of Roses Parade, law enforcement, intelligence and homeland security agents across the country were using peer-to-peer software from Groove Networks Inc.to collaborate and assess...
[July 25, 2007, 0:00]
2001: Peer-to-peer Technology Grows Up
News It's now over two years since a few underground song-swapping services put peer-to-peer technology firmly at the forefront of the IT agenda. The appearance of a proof-of-concept worm travelling around the Gnutella network showed that peer-to-peer...
[December 28, 2001, 6:31]
Peer-to-Peer Behaviour Detection By TCP Flows Analysis
White Papers The use of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications is growing dramatically. It concerns applications like Gnutella, Kazaa or eDonkey. These applications sometimes represent as most as 50% of Internet traffic.
[December 26, 2007, 23:00]
Peer-to-peer Networks Carry Surprising Cargo
News Advocates of file sharing are distributing the latest Windows update in an effort to show that peer-to-peer networks could play a legitimate role in the distribution of commercial software. Peer-to-peer advocacy group Downhill Battle has made a...
[August 11, 2004, 9:00]
Peer To Peer And SPAM In The Internet
White Papers In this document, the Peer-to-Peer applications and unsolicited e-mail or spam is covered from different angles including the main algorithms, protocols and application programs, the content, the operator view, legal issues, the economic aspects...
[June 5, 2004, 0:00]
Peer Loses Cybercrime Fight
Talkback Excellent. Hopefully the UK will go at it in full force with this new law and thus one more potential global competitor will be removed from the face of the earth because surely once such an idiotic law is enforced the UK will become crackers...
[July 15, 2006, 1:59]
Peer-to-Peer Content Sharing In Wireless Networks
White Papers A very efficient peer-to-peer application layer architecture is analyzed as a potential candidate for wireless peer-to-peer applications. Its performance in terms of generated traffic and load balance are simulated for different network sizes.
[March 1, 2007, 23:00]
Peer Loses Cybercrime Fight
Talkback Since the target for most phishing attacks and trojan distribution is either outlook or internet explorer would not Microsoft be instantly criminalised on enactment of this part of the proposed new law.for outlook read all other producers of e...
[July 16, 2006, 12:20]
Peer Loses Cybercrime Fight
Talkback Not retrospective so MS would have to withdraw old OS and IEs and everyone would have to buy new. We do seem to have a bad legal system where bad laws are made by clueless people. These laws are then not verbatim, but are interpreted, first by the...
[July 17, 2006, 12:32]
Peer-to-peer Networks Carry Surprising Cargo
Talkback You don't know what you're getting with peer to peer. Hmm. I disagree. It is very common in free and open source software circles to distribute software using BitTorrent, mirror sites, and other methods out of the direct control of the initial...
[August 11, 2004, 10:25]
Peer-to-peer Networks Carry Surprising Cargo
Talkback Just downloaded it at an average speed of 1500k which is probably 4 times faster than if i got it from microsoft alone. Works perfectly and I can jump ahead of the game.
[August 11, 2004, 10:56]
Peer-to-peer Networks Carry Surprising Cargo
Talkback Just downloaded it at an average speed of 1500k which is probably 4 times faster than if i got it from microsoft alone. Works perfectly and I can jump ahead of the game.
[August 11, 2004, 10:58]
Peer-to-peer Networks Carry Surprising Cargo
Talkback In fact I've fetched the xpsp2 cd image from MSDN subscriber downloads. The file in question xpsp2.exe, is 278920704 bytes long and has an md5sum of 94276421fa963122a4e434d3b14fdc01 Now all you have to decide is if you trust me with this piece of...
[August 11, 2004, 11:02]
