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Welcome back!

Since a few months ago, Deimos, the site administrator, lacks the necessary time to take care of the website, because of personal matters he’s been needing to attend to. For this reason, he has decided to leave the site staff.

Before leaving, he assigned a new site administrator from among his friends to take care of the site. The old moderator team will continue helping with the site, unchanged. We will try to keep running everything just as it always has been.

The trackers and website seem to be working properly, and should any issues arise, they will be taken care of as soon as possible. The site might be going on and offline over the next days as we work out any problems.

Welcome back, and enjoy your stay!

- Umlauf
Demonoid Site admin

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Source : http://www.demonoid.com/

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Apr 07 2008

New Massive Botnet Twice the Size of Storm…

400,000-strong ‘Kraken’ botnet has infiltrated 50 Fortune 500 companies — and now usurps Storm as world’s biggest botnet
APRIL 7, 2008 | 8:00AMBy Kelly Jackson Higgins
Senior Editor, Dark Reading

SAN FRANCISCO -– RSA 2007 Conference –- A new botnet twice the size of Storm has ballooned to an army of over 400,000 bots, including machines in the Fortune 500, according to botnet researchers at Damballa. (See The World’s Biggest Botnets and MayDay! Sneakier, More Powerful Botnet on the Loose.)

The so-called Kraken botnet has been spotted in at least 50 Fortune 500 companies and is undetectable in over 80 percent of machines running antivirus software. Kraken appears to be evading detection by a combination of clever obfuscation techniques, including regularly updating its binary code and structuring the code in such a way that hinders any static analysis, says Paul Royal, principal researcher at Damballa.

“It’s easy to trace but slow to get antivirus coverage. It seems to imply [the creators] have a good understanding of how AV tools operate and how to evade them,” Royal says.

Kraken’s successful infiltration of major enterprises is a wakeup call that bots aren’t just a consumer problem. Damballa and other botnet experts over the past few months have seen an unsettling rise in bot infections in enterprises. (See Bots Rise in the Enterprise.)

Royal says like Storm, Kraken so far is mostly being used for spamming the usual scams — high interest loans, gambling, male enhancement products, pharmacy advertisements, and counterfeit watches, for instance. “But given that it updates its binary, there’s no reason it couldn’t update itself to a binary that does other things,” Royal says. “I’m wondering where this thing is going to go.”
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Apr 07 2008

CRTC To Face Net Neutrality Issue….

…..as CAIP Demands Bell Cease and Desist Its Throttling Practices

The CRTC has to date largely avoided the net neutrality issue, however, that is about to change. The Canadian Association of Internet Providers, Canada’s largest ISP association, has filed a Part VII application with the CRTC asking it to direct Bell Canada to cease and desist from throttling its wholesale Internet service. The application, which was filed late yesterday and is not yet posted on the CRTC site, is the most significant legal development in the Canadian net neutrality debate yet since it places the issue squarely before the Commission. The filing provides additional insights into Bell’s action - the throttling has reduced speeds by as much as 90 percent - and marks an important milestone since the outcome will provide a clear answer on whether Canadian law currently protects net neutrality or if legislative reform is needed.

The application notes that “Bell’s traffic shaping measures have impaired the speed and performance of the wholesale ADSL access services that it provides to independent ISPs and other competitors, to the point where the quality of the service has been degraded beyond recognition.” CAIP adds that the throttling is making it impossible for the independent ISPs to manage their networks and forcing them to pay for bandwidth they cannot use. In light of these effects, CAIP says “it seeks to restrain anti-competitive behaviour on the part of Bell. Thus, the relief requested. . . is intended to ‘ensure the technological and competitive neutrality’ of the interconnection and and wholesale services provided by Bell to independent ISPs and to promote competition from new technologies that are enabled by the Internet and ADSL access technology.” CAIP is therefore asking for an order, issued on an urgent and expedited basis, “directing Bell Canada to immediately cease and desist from using any technologies to “shape”, “throttle” and/or “choke” its wholesale ADSL services.”

Source : http://www.neutrality.ca

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Apr 06 2008