The State of Kentucky Court of Appeals yesterday overturned(pdf) Franklin County Circuit Judge Wingate’s ruling that resulted in 141 gambling domain names being confiscated in September of 2008(pdf). Judge Wingate had said the names constituted “gambling devices” subject to the court’s in rem jurisdiction, however, the Court of Appeals ruled: Suffice it to say that [...]
A very interesting paper came out a few days ago by MSFT researchers Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio exploring the economics of phishing. In a nutshell they systematically analyze phishing, both in terms of losses and in terms of gains, and find that the dollars in the phenomenon are widely overstated. In a nutshell: too [...]
Streaming video traffic coverage of Obama’s inauguration flooded North American backbones today. Traffic increases varied wildly across US providers with some seeing an overall 5% increase in backbone traffic and others jumping more than 40%. This multi terabit per second flood represents one of the single largest one day spikes in Internet traffic since ATLAS [...]