Röntgenlaser: Der Xfel wird eröffnet
Der European Xfel wird am heutigen Freitag eingeweiht. Der Forschungsbetrieb am derzeit größten und leistungsfähigsten Röntgenlaser startet in Kürze. (Wissenschaft, Technologie)
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Der European Xfel wird am heutigen Freitag eingeweiht. Der Forschungsbetrieb am derzeit größten und leistungsfähigsten Röntgenlaser startet in Kürze. (Wissenschaft, Technologie)
Neben dem Idol 5S hat Alcatel drei weitere Smartphones vorgestellt: Das Idol 5 ist eine etwas weniger leistungsfähige Version des Top-Gerätes, das A7 und das A7 XL richten sich an Freunde großer Smartphones. Das A7 XL kommt mit einer Dualkamera. (Ifa 2017, Smartphone)
Ein schmales Gerät und trotzdem viel Platz für Informationen: Dieses Konzept greift Wiko mit seinen neuen View-Smartphones auf. Alle Smartphones sind vor allem auf gute Selbstporträts ausgerichtet. Das Topmodell hat sogar eine Dual-Kamera auf der Displayseite. (Ifa 2017, Smartphone)
Das Idol 5S ist Alcatels aktuelles Top-Smartphone – der chinesische Hersteller bringt das Gerät jetzt nach Deutschland. Für 400 Euro bekommen Käufer ein gut verarbeitetes Smartphone der oberen Mittelklasse mit interessanten Kameraoptionen. Ein Hands on von Tobias Költzsch (Ifa 2017, Smartphone)
Leak suggests this week’s Instragram breach was bigger than first thought.
At first glance, the Instagram security bug that was exploited to obtain celebrities' phone numbers and e-mail addresses appeared to be limited, possibly to a small number of celebrity accounts. Now a database of 10,000 credentials published online Thursday night suggests the breach is much bigger.
The database was provided by someone who e-mailed in response to Thursday's story, mentioned above, about the Instagram breach. The sender said he was able to scrape personal data belonging to 6 million users and was selling the data in a searchable website for $10 per query. The person provided a sample of 10,000 of those records.
While Instagram has yet to confirm the authenticity of the sample, an analysis by Ars and security researcher Troy Hunt, maintainer of the Have I been Pwnd breach notification service, all but concludes it's legitimate. To protect potentially affected end users, Ars isn't publishing the sites hosting the sale of the purported 6 million records or the sample, which was freely available when this post was going live.
Die Telekom hat zwar wenige FTTH-Kunden, die bekommen jetzt aber eine sehr hohe Datenrate, Sprachflatrates und EntertainTV Plus. Van Damme sagt auf der IFA ein letztes Mal: “Vectoring ist Glasfaser.” (IFA2007, Telekom)
The past few days have been pretty hectic for many torrent sites, several of which have suffered downtime due to DDoS attacks. But the trouble doesn’t stop there. WorldWideTorrents had its domain name suspended, while IsoHunt.to has disappeared without a trace.
Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
It’s not uncommon for torrent sites to suffer downtime due to technical issues. That happens pretty much every day.
But when close to a dozen large sites go offline, people start to ask questions.
This is exactly what happened this week. As reported previously, The Pirate Bay was hard to reach earlier, after a surge of traffic and a subsequent DDoS attack overloaded its servers. And they were not alone.
TorrentFreak spoke to several torrent site admins who noticed an increase of suspicious traffic which slowed down or toppled their sites, at least temporarily. While most have recovered, some sites remain offline today.
TorrentProject.se, one of the most used torrent search engines, has been down for nearly three days now. The site currently shows a “403 Forbidden” error message. Whether this is a harmless technical issue, the result of a DDoS attack, or worse, is unknown.
TorrentFreak reached out to the owner of the site but we have yet to hear back.
Another site that appears to be in trouble is WorldWideTorrents. This site, which was started after the KAT shutdown last year, is a home to many comic book fans. However, over the past few days the site has become unresponsive.
Based on WHOIS data, the site’s domain name has been suspended. The name servers were changed to “suspended-domain.com,” which means that it’s unlikely to be reinstated. WorldWideTorrents will reportedly return with a new domain but which one is currently unknown.
Popular uploaders on the site such as Nemesis43, meanwhile, are still active on other sites.
Then there’s also Isohunt.to, which has been unresponsive for over a week. The search engine, which launched in 2013 less than two weeks after isoHunt.com shut down, has now vanished itself.
With no word from the operators, we can only speculate what happened. The site has seen a sharp decline in traffic over the past year, so it could be that they simply lost interest.
Those who now search for IsoHunt on Google are instead pointed to isohunts.to, which is a scam site advising users to download a “binary client,” which is little more than an ad.
The above shows that the torrent ecosystem remains vulnerable. DDoS attacks and domain issues are nothing new, but after the shutdown of KAT, Torrentz, Extratorrent, and other giants, the remaining sites have to carry a larger burden.
Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
Die Union könnte in der kommenden Regierung ein öminöses “Datengesetz” auf den Weg bringen. Leider finden sich in den Wahlprogrammen noch viele andere merkwürdige Vorschläge der Parteien zum Datenschutz. Eine Analyse von Friedhelm Greis (BTW 2017, Vorratsdatenspeicherung)
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