US Senate Just Voted to Let ISPs Sell Your Web Browsing Data Without Permission

The ISPs can now sell certain sensitive data like your browsing history without permission, thanks to the US Senate. The US Senate on Wednesday voted, with 50 Republicans for it and 48 Democrats against, to roll back a set of broadband privacy regulations passed by the Federal Communication...

Trump's New FCC Chairman Lets ISPs Sell Your Private Data Without Your Consent

Bad News for privacy concerned people! It will be once again easier for Internet Service Providers ISPs to sell your personal data for marketing or advertisement purposes without taking your permission. Last October, the United States Federal Communications Commission FCC passed a set of privacy...

Zyxel/Eir D1000 DSL Modem NewNTPServer Command Injection Over TR-064

require 'msf/core' class MetasploitModule 'Zyxel/Eir D1000 DSL Modem NewNTPServer Command Injection Over TR-064', 'Description' = %q Broadband DSL modems manufactured by Zyxel and distributed by some European ISPs are vulnerable to a command injection vulnerability when setting the 'NewNTPServer'...

Zyxel / Eir D1000 DSL Modem NewNTPServer Command Injection Over TR-064 Exploit

Broadband DSL modems manufactured by Zyxel and distributed by some European ISPs are vulnerable to a command injection vulnerability when setting the 'NewNTPServer' value using the TR-64 SOAP-based configuration protocol. In the tested case, no authentication is required to set this value on...

New Privacy Rules require ISPs to must Ask you before Sharing your Sensitive Data

Good News for privacy concerned people! Now, your online data will not be marketed for business; at least by your Internet Service Providers ISPs. Yes, it's time for your ISPs to ask your permission in order to share your sensitive data for marketing or advertisement purposes, the FCC rules. On...

Lawmakers Asking What ISPs Can Do About DDoS Attacks

IoT botnets and DDoS attacks have prominent lawmakers asking government agencies some probing questions about what can be done. Sen. Mark Warner D-VA on Tuesday sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission—as well as the Federal Trade Commission and Homeland Security—querying among othe...

ISPs Sell Your Data to Advertisers, But FCC has a Plan to Protect Privacy

The Federal Communication Commission FCC has put forward a proposal that aims to protect Internet user's privacy. The proposal pdf will regulate the amount of customers’ online data the Internet Service Providers ISPs are able to collect and sell to the advertising companies. Currently, there is ...

Chinese ISPs Caught Injecting Ads and Malware into Web Pages

China has gained a considerable global attention when it comes to their Internet policies in the past years; whether it's introducing its own search engine dubbed "Baidu," Great Firewall of China, its homebrew China Operating System COP and many more. Along with the developments, China has long...

Swedish Court — 'We Can't Ban The Pirate Bay'

The controversial file-sharing website The Pirate Bay will still be running in Sweden as the District Court of Stockholm on Friday ruled that they be unable to force the internet service providers ISPs to block the website from operating. The Pirate Bay is an infamous Swedish search engine...

Some Recursive DNS Implementations Patch DoS Vulnerability

UPDATE: Some domain name system DNS server implementations are at risk for denial-of-service attacks after a vulnerability was disclosed and patched in a few popular server packages, including BIND, OpenDNS, PowerDNS and NLnetLabs. According to an advisory from DHS and the CERT Coordination Cente...

ZTE ZXHN H108L Access Bypass Vulnerability

ZTE ZXHN H108L fails to verify user authentication when editing the CWMP configuration. ZTE ZXHN H108L is provided by some large Greek ISPs to their subscribers. Vulnerability Details ===================== CWMP configuration is accessible only through the Administrator account. CWMP is a protocol...

ZTE ZXHN H108L - Authentication Bypass (2)

ZTE ZXHN H108L - Authentication Bypass 2 About the software ================== ZTE ZXHN H108L is provided by some large Greek ISPs to their subscribers. Vulnerability Details ===================== CWMP configuration is accessible only through the Administrator account. CWMP is a protocol widely...

ZTE ZXHN H108L Access Bypass

About the software ================== ZTE ZXHN H108L is provided by some large Greek ISPs to their subscribers. Vulnerability Details ===================== CWMP configuration is accessible only through the Administrator account. CWMP is a protocol widely used by ISPs worldwide for remote...

Home Routers at Core of DNS-Based DDoS Amplification Attacks

DNS providers Nominum have published new data on DNS-based DDoS amplification attacks that are using home and small office routers as a jumping off point. The provider said that in February alone, more than five million home routers were used to generate attack traffic; that number represents mor...

Google DNS Intercepted in Turkey

Internet service providers in Turkey have been intercepting traffic to Google’s DNS servers and redirecting it, shutting off a workaround that Turkish users had employed to get to sites such as Twitter and YouTube after the government had blocked them. Google software engineers said they had...

Police in Japan ask ISPs to start blocking Tor network

Tor is a web service that allows users to surf the Internet, use IM, and other services while keeping themselves completely anonymous, but Japan's National Police Agency wants ISPs to block access to Tor if users are found to have abused it. The push by Japanese authorities is because they're...

Police in Japan ask ISPs to start blocking Tor network

Tor is a web service that allows users to surf the Internet, use IM, and other services while keeping themselves completely anonymous, but Japan's National Police Agency wants ISPs to block access to Tor if users are found to have abused it. The push by Japanese authorities is because they’re...

U.K. Internet service providers ordered to block three filesharing websites

The UK High Court has ordered BSkyB, BT, Virgin Media and three other UK broadband providers to block access to three music and movie file-sharing websites Kickass Torrents, H33T and Fenopy. Judge Richard Arnold said that these websites infringed 10 music companies copyrights on an industrial...

U.K. Internet service providers ordered to block three filesharing websites

The UK High Court has ordered BSkyB, BT, Virgin Media and three other UK broadband providers to block access to three music and movie file-sharing websites Kickass Torrents, H33T and Fenopy. Judge Richard Arnold said that these websites infringed 10 music companies copyrights on an industrial...

ISPs will warn you about pirate content with Copyright Alert System

According to the Center for Copyright Information, the controversial "Copyright Alert System" will hit the U.S. within weeks. A blog post by Jill Lesser, executive director of the Center for Copyright Information, revealed the long-awaited Copyright Alert System CAS will begin "in the coming week...