Onsight Data

Thinking of calling mom to wish her a Happy Mother's Day today?  Network congestion is always a problem as it's one of the busiest calling days of the year.

SaskTel's Andy Tate explains, "Mother's Day is one of the busiest calling days of the year, every year.  It's busier then Father's Day, busier then Christmas Day and we do expect a high volume of long distance calls, in fact this is the tenth year in a row we project that we will have over one million call attempts on Mother's Day."

Tate has some advice before picking up the phone, "The best thing to do is to avoid the busiest times of the day, which are usually between 10am to 2pm and 7:30pm to 10pm.  Also make sure you dial the call yourself, instead of going through the operator if possible.  Check the phone number before you dial and also the time zone."

45 per cent of the calls are often made in Saskatchewan, 52 per cent go to other Canadian destinations and the other 3 per cent often go to the U.S. or overseas.

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 As always you should never click on links from people on your msn list.

If you think you are infected you should run an online virus scan.

 http://housecall.antivirus.com

 

 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The dreaded Conficker computer worm is stirring. Security experts say the worm's authors appear to be trying to build a big moneymaker, but not a cyber weapon of mass destruction as many people feared.

As many as 12 million computers have been infected by Conficker. Security firm Trend Micro says some of the machines have been updated over the past few days with fake antivirus software - the first attempt by Conficker's authors to profit from their massive "botnet."

Criminals use bogus security software to extort money. Victims are told their computers are infected, and can be fixed only by paying for a clean-up that never happens.

Conficker gets on computers through a hole Microsoft patched in October. PCs set up for automatic Windows updates should be clean.

A cyber Trojan worm is expected to hit millions of computers on April 1, and authorities aren't treating it like an April Fool's joke.

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has issued a warning about the latest version of the Conficker worm, which could potentially have infected any computers running a Microsoft operating system.

CIRA, which manages Canada's dot-ca (.ca) domain name registry, says that the worm will force infected computers to connect randomly to about 50,000 web URLs a day beginning April 1.

But what could happen when those computers reach those websites is anyone's guess. Files on the websites could instruct the worm to do anything from steal passwords or banking information, to delete a person's hard drive to simply sending spam messages.

Experts say that anywhere from three to 12 million computers may be infected.

TV's technology expert Kris Abel said that most users with up-to-date anti-virus software should be fine and the biggest threat is towards computers that have been inactive for the last six months or so.

"These computers that have been infected . . . can be potentially organized . . . and be remotely controlled as one big organization force," Abel said. "Now typically this is done to use these computers to harvest credit card information . . . but we are not quite sure what the intentions will be on April 1."

Christopher Davis, the CEO of Defence Intelligence, an Ottawa-based information security firm, told CTV Newsnet that he believes the worm is "far from a hoax."

"It's one of the biggest bot-nets we've ever seen," he said.

Davis recommended that Canadian computer users make sure their Microsoft Windows update is working and that their anti-virus software is up to date.

He said that on April 1, when the worm goes live, the average user wouldn't notice it operating on their computer as it will run hidden.

says it is registering and isolating unregistered dot-ca domain names that are expected to be generated by the Conficker worm.

Abel says that there are tools online that will search and destroy the worm if you think your computer is infected.

by Mariella Moon

Yes, it's that time of the year again - the time to switch the lights off for one full hour; that is if you're planning to participate in the 2009 Earth Hour event. Earth Hour started off back in 2007 in Sydney to send out people's stance about climate change. Organizers claim as much as 10.2 percent decrease in energy consumption that first year with 2.2 million households in the Australian city taking part in the event.

"Earth Hour is an opportunity for the global community to speak in one voice on the issue of climate change, while at the same time coming together in celebration of the one thing every single person on the planet has in common - the planet," says Andy Ridley, Earth Hour Executive Director.

This year, Earth Hour will be held on March 28, starting at 8:30 in the evening during your timezone until 9:30PM. According to the Earth Hour web site, there are already more than 1,000 towns and cities that signed up to participate, exceeding the organizers' expectations. If you want to join in, you can check out the Google Map posted at the web site to see if your area has an Earth Hour event, or you can organize your own.

Originally posted to GoodCleanTech.com.

Note: Onsight Data will not be turing off our servers during 'Earth Hour'  ;)

Canadian cable operator Shaw announced a few short weeks ago that it would be launching a new 100-Mbps speed tier using DOCSIS 3.0 channel bonding.  Shortly after that, Motorola claimed the success of its TX32 downstream module for channel bonding with a milestone release counting 1,000 modules sold. Here we are later in the same month, and the two news items are finally joined together with the announcement that Shaw is using Motorola's DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem termination systems (CMTS) - including the TX32 cards - and D3 cable modems for its 100-Mbps deployments.

Details of the new Shaw speed tier include the fact that it runs $269.95 (Canadian dollars) per month alone or $249.95 when bundled with another Shaw service. It's also subject to a 200 GB consumption cap, more generous than most, but behind Comcast with its 250 GB ceiling.

Shaw isn't the first cable operator to break the 100-Mbps barrier, but it is (applause please) the first one in North America. Amazingly, it doesn't appear that DOCSIS 3.0 deployments have slowed in keeping with the rest of the economy's laggardly nature. Hard to know if deployments will keep pace in the coming months, but for now the need for speed is winning out over financial concerns.

Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_for_skype_pwnage/ 

Business model for P2P firm at last?

By Lewis Page

Posted in Government, 12th February 2009 11:32 GMT

Counter Terror Expo News of a possible viable business model for P2P VoIP network Skype emerged today, at the Counter Terror Expo in London. An industry source disclosed that America's supersecret National Security Agency (NSA) is offering "billions" to any firm which can offer reliable eavesdropping on Skype IM and voice traffic.

The spybiz exec, who preferred to remain anonymous, confirmed that Skype continues to be a major problem for government listening agencies, spooks and police. This was already thought to be the case, following requests from German authorities for special intercept/bugging powers to help them deal with Skype-loving malefactors. Britain's GCHQ has also stated that it has severe problems intercepting VoIP and internet communication in general.

Skype in particular is a serious problem for spooks and cops. Being P2P, the network can't be accessed by the company providing it and the authorities can't gain access by that route. The company won't disclose details of its encryption, either, and isn't required to as it is Europe based. This lack of openness prompts many security pros to rubbish Skype on "security through obscurity" grounds: but nonetheless it remains a popular choice with those who think they might find themselves under surveillance. Rumour suggests that America's NSA may be able to break Skype encryption - assuming they have access to a given call or message - but nobody else.

The NSA may be able to do that: but it seems that if so, this uses up too much of the agency's resources at present.

"They are saying to the industry, you get us into Skype and we will make you a very rich company," said the industry source, adding that the obscure encryption used by the P2Pware is believed to change frequently as part of software updates.

The spyware kingpin suggested that Skype is deliberately seeking to frustrate national listening agencies, which seems an odd thing to do - Skype has difficulties enough getting revenues out of its vast user base at any time, and a paid secure-voice system for subversives doesn't seem like a money-spinner.

But corporate parent eBay, having had to write down $1.4bn already following its $2.6bn purchase of Skype back in the bubble-2.0 days of 2005, might see an opportunity here. A billion or two from the NSA for a backdoor into Skype might make the acquisition seem like a sensible idea.

We asked the NSA for comment, particularly on the idea of simply buying a way into Skype, but hadn't yet received a response as of publication. ®

December 19, 2008, 2:01 PM

Internet and voice traffic to much of the Middle East and south Asia has been disrupted by the overnight loss of three major cables spanning the Mediterranean.

According to a notice from France Telecom, the three provisioning cables linking Sicily to Egypt were lost within about 40 minutes of one another Friday morning (local time). A France Telecom-owned maintenance ship will be dispatched to inspect the site within a few hours. Until then, it's not known what might have caused the cuts.

The three cables involved carry about 75% of telecom traffic to the region. The release states that much traffic between Europe and Asia is being re-routed through the US. Internet service seems to be most affected in Jordan, when it's estimated that connectivity is down by 50%. Estimates given for voice-service disruptions indicate that the hardest-hit countries so far are Maldives (100% out of service), India (82% out of service), Qatar (73%), Djibouti (71%), and United Arab Emirates (68%). Anecdotal reports also suggest that Egypt's widely affected as well.

The Internet Traffic Report at press time showed, as seen in the chart pictured (live view available), that traffic's certainly down and packet loss is up.

It should go without saying that fixing a fiberoptic cable at the bottom of the sea isn't as easy as swapping one strand of CAT5 for another under your desk, but some may be surprised to hear how exposed such cables often are. Many simply lie on the seabed and are buried only by whatever silt or debris collects over them. That certainly speeds up the process of getting to them when necessary, but if a cable is snagged by something dragging along the bottom (e.g., an anchor from a ship heading for the nearby Port of Alexandria), trouble can result.

At least one of the cables cut, the $500 million, 19,000 km, 1.28 Tbps SEA-ME-WE-4 stretching between France and Singapore, was one of the two cables involved the last time this happened, back in late January. That well-studied outage affected much the same area and, though storms in the region were suspected of having caused debris or an abandoned ship's anchor to sever the cables, no cause was ever identified. Four other significant cables were cut or damaged in the general region at about the same time, leading to much concern over the fragility of the Interwebs.

The other affected cables are SEA-ME-WE-3 (an earlier cable from the same 16-nation consortium, which took up much of the load during the January outage) and FLAG, a newer and supposedly more resilient cable.

France Telecom representatives currently think that SEA-ME-WE-4 could be fixed by Christmas Day, and that things should be getting back to normal by New Year's, marine weather permitting. Meanwhile, users around the world may see some congestion as traffic is re-routed.

 

Onsight Data is pleased to announce that our data center  has turned up a 10G circuit to *both* Verio and Level 3 in Seattle. They have also turned up a 10G circuit to *both* Comcast and the Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX) for peering. This brings our total capacity in Seattle to 70G.

Seattle, WA (sea01) - 70G total capacity!
Internap - 2x 10G
Qwest - 1x 10G
Verio - 1x 10G
Level3 - 1x 10G
Comcast - 1x 10G (peering)
SIX - 1x 10G (peering)

1) Download pmdump but don't run it but just place that .exe file on your desktop.
2) Unplug your magicjack
3) Open up a shell prompt ( start - run - cmd )
4) cd to your desktop
5) plug your magic jack back in 6) type pmdump.exe -list and find your pid for magicjack.exe
7) type pmdump.exe magicjackdump.txt

( Note: I realized that my screenshot I posted I had already created a magicjack.txt so I had to name mine magicjack1.txt)

8) Go here http://www.hexworkshop.com/ and download the "Hex Editor".
9) Run the hexEditor and drag and drop above file in.
10) Go to Edit menu and select find -> text string values:
"ProxyUserName"
"ProxyUserPassword", "SIPProxyURI" (this will look -> SipProxyURI : sip: 207.155.164.198 :5070)

10) After noting down all above go here http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21209178-magicjack-sucks and determine according to IP address (sipproxyURI) , what city you are located. If U don't find that IP here please google it. If U find more reliable site please post for all.

Then modify Ur proxy like this: proxy1.yourcityname.talk4free.com:5070

Now you are ready to use your own device.

You have Username, Password and the Proxyserver.

If you use Linksys PAP2 , its like this..!

Username and password as above
sip port: 5070
proxy: proxy1.yourcityname.talk4free.com:5070
register: yes
make call without reg: yes
answer call without reg: no
register expires: 3600
display name: your phone number

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