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SIP Attacks From Amazon EC2 Going Unaddressed 104

Posted by kdawson on Saturday April 17, 2010 @09:39PM from the how-hard-can-it-be dept.

mjgraves writes "Over the past week a number of IP-PBX systems have been suffering SIP attacks from hosts in the Amazon EC2 cloud. At least a dozen known attacks have been reported to Amazon, which has been surprisingly quiet about the matter. The issue has been well documented by one of the attack victims on his blog. The matter was also discussed on the April 16th issue of the VoIP Users Conference (podcast available at the link; EC2 segment begins around 3:30). Amazon appears to have gone silent on the matter even as the attacks are ongoing. This is completely irresponsible behavior from a such a hosting company, which should be acting to take down the attacker in their midst."

Comment When you DAMPEN something you make it wet (Score 2, Informative) 142

by martensitic on Thursday January 10, 2008 @06:30AM (#21981704) Attached to: Material Turns All Surfaces into Stereo

This is a pet peeve of acousticians everywhere.

Sound and vibration are DAMPED.

DAMPENING is for dishtowels.

Submission + - Facial recognition vending machine debut in Japan (japanesecustomer.com)

Submitted by

Peter Hanami

on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @06:47AM

Peter Hanami writes: "Yesterday in Japan, a facial recognition vending machine went on sale that can tell the age of the buyer based on a range of features including number of wrinkles, bone structure and how the skin sits on the face. Developed as a way to stop minors from buying cigarettes from vending machines.In Japan, cigarette vending machines are a common feature on the street and presently few safeguards exist to stop younger users from purchasing. This new machine is seen as a positive step to reduce under age smoking. If the machine doesnt deem the buyer to be of suitable age, 20 years old in Japan. The buyer must provide further identification such as a drivers licence."

Submission + - Point and click Gmail hacking at Black Hat (tgdaily.com)

Submitted by

not5150

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @04:51PM

not5150 writes: "Using Gmail or most other webmail programs over an unsecured access points just got a bit more dangerous. At Black Hat, Robert Graham, CEO of errata security, showed how to capture and clone session cookies. He even hijacked a shocked attendee's Gmail account in the middle of his Black Hat speech."

Yahoo! Opens up Their Instant Messenger 127

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday June 20, 2006 @07:21AM from the all-this-cooperation-is-making-me-nervous dept.

prostoalex writes "Reuters is reporting on the new release of Yahoo! Messenger, which will allow third-party applications and plugins to run within the Messenger environment. From the article: 'Initial partners include 30 Boxes, a calendar-sharing site that competes with Google Calendar, commodities trading site Hedgestreet.com and Pando.com, which offers a service for sharing videos or other files via BitTorrent technology. More than 100 mini-programs will be available initially.' The application is currently available in beta. Relatedly, Microsoft is removing the beta warning label from Windows Live Messenger and promises better voice communications, landline calls and future integration with Yahoo! Messenger."

Bill Gates to Step Down from Microsoft 742

Posted by Zonk on Thursday June 15, 2006 @05:00PM from the i'm-sure-you-have-more-to-say-than-i dept.

Geoffreyerffoeg writes "According to Microsoft PressPass, Bill Gates will be leaving his role at Microsoft in July 2008. He'll be staying with the company, but is also moving to a more fulltime position with the Gates Foundation. 'Microsoft Corp. today announced that effective July 2008 Bill Gates, chairman, will transition out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The company announced a two-year transition process to ensure that there is a smooth and orderly transfer of Gates' daily responsibilities, and said that after July 2008 Gates would continue to serve as the company's chairman and an adviser on key development projects.' CTO Ray Ozzie will assume Gates' role of Chief Software Architect, and CTO Craig Mundie will also take on more leadership responsibility."

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