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Welche Rechte hat ein Kabelnetzbetreiber auf den Mietroutern seiner Kunden? Im Streit über die automatische Aktivierung von WLAN-Hotspots von Unitymedia soll ein Gericht diese Grundsatzfrage klären. (Unitymedia, WLAN)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise kündigt zwei neue SSDs für seine High-End-Speichersysteme an. Die Preise liegen im fünfstelligen Bereich. Dafür gibt es aber Kapazitäten, die mit Festplatten nicht mehr möglich sind. (Solid State Drive, Speichermedien)

With well over 150 million active users a month uTorrent is by far the most used BitTorrent client around.

In addition, the software also has a dedicated community forums with tens of thousands of visitors per day, and over 388,000 registered members.

According to a recent security alert these users would be to update their passwords, as the forum database has been compromised by hackers.

The uTorrent team, which is part of BitTorrent Inc, was alerted to the issue by one of their vendors earlier this week. While the vulnerability didn’t originate at the uTorrent forums, it was indirectly compromised.

“The vulnerability appears to have been through one of the vendor’s other clients, however it allowed attackers to access some information on other accounts. As a result, attackers were able to download a list of our forum users,” uTorrent writes.

The security alert is posted in the forums but as far as we know users haven’t been notified individually. There is no mention of the massive security breach on uTorrent and BitTorrent’s social media accounts either.

uTorrent forums with security warning

According to the uTorrent team it’s not entirely clear what data has been compromised by the hack. The company’s vendor has made some changes to mitigate the fallout, but the hashed passwords are likely compromised.

“We are investigating further to learn if any other information was accessed. Our vendor has made backend changes so that the hashes in the file do not appear to be a usable attack vector,” the uTorrent team writes.

“As a precaution, we are advising our users to change their passwords. While the passwords may not be used as a vector on the forums, those hashed passwords should be considered compromised,” they add.

In addition, users are strongly advised to update their passwords at other sites, if the ones they’re using are identical to the one deployed on the forum.

While uTorrent no longer reports the number of forum users, a few months ago it listed 388,358 members who together wrote over half a million posts.

The uTorrent forums use the Invision Power Board software. The same software also powers the separate BitTorrent forums, which given the lack of a security notice doesn’t appear to be compromised.

TorrentFreak asked BitTorrent Inc. which at which vendor the hack originated and whether it intends to communicate the issue to forum users in a more direct manner, but we have yet to hear back.

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Ein leistungsfähiges Tablet und mit Tastatur ein überzeugendes Notebook: Lenovos Thinkpad X1 Tablet fühlt sich sogar besser an als Microsofts Surface Pro 4 - leidet aber noch mehr am Problem der Konkurrenz echter Notebooks. (Lenovo, Business-Notebooks)

Der neue Kabelnetzstandard Docsis 3.1. kommt bald im Netz von Unitymedia zum Einsatz - allerdings vorerst in einer Light-Version. Weil die Hardware schon weitgehend implementiert ist, ist der Start durch ein Softwareupdate möglich. (Unitymedia, Telekommunikation)

Harvard-Forscher haben eine neuartige Linse entwickelt, die aus einem Metamaterial besteht. Sie soll herkömmliche Glaslinsen in den unterschiedlichsten optischen Geräten ersetzen. (Metamaterial, Digitalkamera)

Werbung in Science-Fiction-Filmen ist sehr selten. Und wenn sie in Form von Product Placement auftaucht, dann sehr dezent. Hewlett Packard Enterprise wird sein grünes Logo in Star Trek Beyond allerdings überall verteilen. Schuld daran ist The Machine. (HPE, Technologie)

Standard-Layout, Kailh-Switches, weiß beleuchtet, kein spezieller Account oder Treiber erforderlich: Sharkoons Skiller Mech, eine 60 Euro günstige mechanische Tastatur, gefällt uns ziemlich gut. (Tastatur, Eingabegerät)

Media Broadcast hat in einer Region zwei Senderstandorte für DVB-T2 livegeschaltet. Auch zwei neue Fernsehsender sollen dazukommen, einer davon ist Sport1. (DVB-T, Telekom)

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