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Youtube finanziert sich durch Werbeeinblendungen, aber diese lassen sich einfach umgehen. (Youtube, Firefox)
US-Botschafter Todd Chapman will den Boykott von Huawei in Brasilien großzügig finanzieren. Doch die Bolsonaro-Regierung schafft nicht mal die Frequenzvergabe. (Huawei, Handy)
Control-Flow Enforcement Technology will debut in Tiger Lake microarchitecture.
Enlarge / A mobile PC processor code-named Tiger Lake. It will be the first CPU to offer a security capability known as Control-Flow Enforcement Technology. (credit: Intel)
The history of hacking has largely been a back-and-forth game, with attackers devising a technique to breach a system, defenders constructing a countermeasure that prevents the technique, and hackers devising a new way to bypass system security. On Monday, Intel is announcing its plans to bake a new parry directly into its CPUs that’s designed to thwart software exploits that execute malicious code on vulnerable computers.
Control-Flow Enforcement Technology, or CET, represents a fundamental change in the way processors execute instructions from applications such as Web browsers, email clients, or PDF readers. Jointly developed by Intel and Microsoft, CET is designed to thwart a technique known as return-oriented programming, which hackers use to bypass anti-exploit measures software developers introduced about a decade ago. While Intel first published its implementation of CET in 2016, the company on Monday is saying that its Tiger Lake CPU microarchitecture will be the first to include it.
ROP, as return-oriented programming is usually called, was software exploiters’ response to protections such as Executable Space Protection and address space layout randomization, which made their way into Windows, macOS, and Linux a little less than two decades ago. These defenses were designed to significantly lessen the damage software exploits could inflict by introducing changes to system memory that prevented the execution of malicious code. Even when successfully targeting a buffer overflow or other vulnerability, the exploit resulted only in a system or application crash, rather than a fatal system compromise.
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“Activity in cislunar space is expected to increase considerably in the coming years.”
Enlarge / This 1960s concept illustrates a nuclear-thermal rocket with an aerobrake disk as it orbits Mars. (credit: NASA)
There are many ways to get around space, but most of them are pretty slow. This is why, even when launching at an optimal time, a spacecraft leaving Earth requires about six months to reach orbit around Mars.
For decades, many rocket scientists have looked to a propulsion system powered by a nuclear reactor as the fastest practical means of getting to Mars and other places in the Solar System more quickly.
The German engineer who defected to the United States after World War II, Wernher von Braun, recognized the potential of nuclear thermal propulsion even before his Saturn V rocket landed humans on the Moon with chemical propulsion. Eventually this led to a project called NERVA, which stood for Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application. It was eventually canceled to help pay for the space shuttle.
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16.000 Fälle sexualisierter Gewalt an Kindern wurden 2019 von der Polizei registriert – doch eine öffentliche Debatte bleibt bislang aus
Die Linux-Spezialisten von System 76 stecken eine Ryzen-Desktop-CPU mit zwölf Kernen und eine Nvidia-GPU in ein Laptop-Gehäuse. (Notebook, Computer)
Google und Facebook sollen in Australien für die Nutzung von Medieninhalten zahlen. Doch Facebook braucht deren Inhalte gar nicht. (Leistungsschutzrecht, Google)
Google und Facebook sollen in Australien für die Nutzung von Medieninhalten zahlen. Doch Facebook braucht deren Inhalte gar nicht. (Leistungsschutzrecht, Google) Die Ergebnisse des 2. Mobilfunkgipfels am Dienstag sind schon öffentlich. (Long Term Evolution, Telekom)
Die Ergebnisse des 2. Mobilfunkgipfels am Dienstag sind schon öffentlich. (Long Term Evolution, Telekom) Der BPFilter ist keine zwei Jahre im Linux-Kernel, könnte aber bald schon wieder verschwinden. Die Technik wird schlicht nicht benutzt. (Linux-Kernel, Linux)
Der BPFilter ist keine zwei Jahre im Linux-Kernel, könnte aber bald schon wieder verschwinden. Die Technik wird schlicht nicht benutzt. (Linux-Kernel, Linux) An IP address allegedly used by The Pirate Bay and claimed to be owned by a Swedish ISP does not belong to the provider, it’s being claimed. According to Obenetwork, the IP address is actually operated by local VPN service OVPN. As a result, the ISP has asked a court to withdraw an information injunction obtained by a pair of Scandinavian movie companies.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Earlier this month it became evident that copyright holders and their anti-piracy representatives had not forgotten about The Pirate Bay.
Aside from occasional downtime, the world’s most famous torrent site had been sailing relatively trouble-free but, behind the scenes, movie companies Svensk Filmindustri and Nordisk Film, supported anti-piracy partner Rights Alliance, were plotting their next enforcement action.
The process began when the movie companies presented Cloudflare with a copyright infringement complaint, stating that The Pirate Bay was connected to mass infringement of their rights. In response, the CDN company revealed that on June 2, 2020, an IP address apparently operated by Swedish ISP Obenetwork was in use by the torrent site.
With this information in hand, the companies went to court in Sweden, filing for an information injunction against Obenetwork and demanding that the ISP preserve all records relating to its business with The Pirate Bay. The companies claimed that the matter was so urgent that Obenetwork should not be heard in the matter and fined SEK 100,000 (US$10,667) in the event of non-compliance.
When reporting on the matter last week, however, we opined that it was likely that The Pirate Bay would’ve expected this kind of move and therefore been prepared for it. It now appears that was indeed the case.
The IP address provided by Cloudflare and said to be in use by The Pirate Bay was directly linked to Obenetwork by the studios. In comments to Tarnkappe last week, however, the ISP was crystal clear: this is not their IP address and it actually belongs to someone else.
“The IP address that The Pirate Bay uses in our network belongs to the anonymous VPN provider ‘OVPN.se’,” the company said in a statement, referring to one of its customers.
Speaking with TorrentFreak this morning, Obenetwork provided more technical details relating to the apparent confusion.
“The IP specified in the court order is from OVPN’s own PA-space [Provider Aggregatable Address Space] they have directly from RIPE. However OVPN doesn’t have its own AS-number, their space is announced by different ISPs around the world where they have servers,” Gustav from Obenetwork explained.
“I believe [the movie companies] just looked at whoever owned the AS-number and found our name. We’ve however opposed the court order with the simple explanation that the IP address does not belong to us and the injunction is invalid.”
TF asked the ISP for its opinion on why it was identified as the owner of the IP address and not OVPN? It’s a question the ISP would also like an answer to.
“Either they did a very poor job in tracing the IP or did it on purpose for some reason to give us bad press,” Gustav says.
“We’ve however told the court of our displeasure with the decision to give the order without even asking us any questions before. The movie companies have stated it was very important that the decision was made without our knowledge due to fear of logs being destroyed.”
In their application, the movie companies claimed that Obenetwork has “close ties” to The Pirate Bay, hence the urgency of the injunction and keeping the ISP out of the process. Gustav says that any alleged connections to the current operations of TPB “are complete nonsense” and no proof to support that claim was ever presented to the court.
“If they actually felt this urgency it would have been much better if they went for the correct company,” he added.
With the clear objections of Obenetwork now with the court, the future direction of this matter remains unclear. However, with OVPN now being pushed into the spotlight, the complexity of hunting down the location of TPB becomes even more apparent.
Speaking with TorrentFreak this morning, OVPN’s David Wibergh confirmed that the IP address in question is indeed owned by OVPN and not Obenetwork. Whether TPB was ever a customer is a question he won’t answer though.
“As we don’t provide information regarding any potential customers, I won’t confirm if thepiratebay.org was actually using OVPN or not. I can only confirm that the IP address specified in the injunction was one that OVPN owns and not Obenetwork. I will not confirm whether or not thepiratebay.org was actually using that IP address,” Wibergh said.
In our most recent overview of VPN providers that take anonymity seriously, OVPN gained a spot for its attention to privacy.
“Our entire infrastructure and VPN service is built to ensure that no logs can be stored – anywhere. Our servers are locked in cabinets and operate without any hard drives,” the provider told us.
Wibergh confirmed today that the IP address is one that belongs to the company’s Public IPv4 add-on, which is covered by exactly the same strict no-logging policy deployed on its standard service.
“The only difference between Public IPv4 and OVPN’s standard service is that the Public IPv4 address is reserved for a specific user. We therefore advise users to purchase the add-on anonymously. It is impossible to retroactively check who had a specific Public IPv4 address at a specific date since users are free to change their assigned Public IPv4 address,” Wibergh added.
At the time of writing, OVPN has not been approached for information relating to the possible use of the IP address by The Pirate Bay. Given the above, however, it seems that The Pirate Bay – if it is a customer – chose its supplier carefully.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Youtube finanziert sich durch Werbeeinblendungen, aber diese lassen sich einfach umgehen. (
US-Botschafter Todd Chapman will den Boykott von Huawei in Brasilien großzügig finanzieren. Doch die Bolsonaro-Regierung schafft nicht mal die Frequenzvergabe. (
Die Linux-Spezialisten von System 76 stecken eine Ryzen-Desktop-CPU mit zwölf Kernen und eine Nvidia-GPU in ein Laptop-Gehäuse. (
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