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YouTube.com Traffic Hijack As A Result of Faulty Route Announcement

News & Announcements from the RIPE NCC

On Sunday, 24 February 2008, Pakistan Telecom (AS17557) started an unauthorised announcement of the prefix 208.65.153.0/24. One of Pakistan Telecom's upstream providers, PCCW Global (AS3491) forwarded this announcement to the rest of the Internet, which resulted in the hijacking of YouTube traffic on a global scale. In this report we show how the events were seen by RIPE NCC's Routing Information Service (RIS) and how, in general, one can use the RIS tools to obtain hard data on network events.

The Class Action Filed Against Network Solutions & ICANN Relies on Erroneous Facts

Internet Class Action Update:

Consumer class action litigation in the internet space is on the rise.  The Internet is abuzz over the class action supposedly filed against Network Solutions for front running domains.  Our internet class action lawyers are monitoring the situation.  Thus far, our attorneys have been unable to confirm that anything has been filed in the U.S. District Court, Central District of California as stated by class counsel. We were able to obtain a copy of the complaint, signed by counsel but with no case number, which you can view here.

Internet Attorneys | The Anti-Phishing Consumer Protection Act of 2008

Congress continues to discuss a bill titled: The Anti-Phishing Consumer Protection Act of 2008.  As originally posted by Mike Berkens at thedomains.com, Senate Members have proposed a  internet law bill to eliminate the practice of phishing e-mails and websites. 

Software Licenses Violate Consumer Protection Laws?

Consumer group claims software licences are unfair | OUT-LAW.COM

Software licences are obscure, unbalanced and unfair, according to the National Consumer Council (NCC), which has filed a complaint with the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). It wants the OFT to force software publishers to use clearer licences.

Internet Attorney | Wikileaks Injunction Requires Online Document Removal

[See Court Documents Below]  - Thanks to Dave Zan who reported an interesting new internet lawsuit involving wikileaks.org (no longer live but available at http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks) a “website dedicated to leaking documents that are “anonymous, untraceable, uncensorable.”  Time Magazine allegedly described the site by stating that it "could become as important a journalistic tool as the Freedom of Information Act."  Contact an internet attorney if your web host or ISP is facing take-down threat letters or similar issues.

College Web site posts sex gossip, hate, rumor raising first amendment and defamation concerns

First Amendment rights pushed to the extreme at juicycampus.com.  Internet defamation rampant on the college web. 

College Web site posts sex gossip, hate, rumor - CNN.com

Under U.S. law, sites like JuicyCampus generally bear no responsibility for what their users post, said George Washington University law professor Daniel Solove, author of the recent book "The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet."

Data Security, DNS Server Corruption and Malware

DNS Inventor Warns of Next Big Threat - Desktop Security News Analysis - Dark Reading

Mockapetris -- who is also chief scientist and chairman of the board for network naming and address vendor Nominum -- says the recent research on corrupted DNS resolution servers by researchers at Georgia Tech and Google demonstrates yet another way the bad guys are attacking DNS to infect users. (See Hacking a New DNS Attack .)

Phishing Scam on TrofficZ Site

TrafficZ customers targeted by phishing scam » Domain Name News

According to an email by TrafficZ, customers of the parking company have been target of a phishing scam. The email entitled “TrafficZ | Domain Termination Notice” states that one of [the customer’s] domains has been deleted from [their] TrafficZ account and asks them to visit Traffiz.com within 72 hours in order for their account not to be blocked. The link in the email leads the user to TrofficZ.com instead of going to TrafficZ.com. The originators of this phishing scam are attempting to capture the usernames and passwords of the mislead users.

 

Microsoft to buy Yahoo?

Our internet law attorneys continue to monitor the landscape for internet law issues which affect our clients.  It was announced today that Microsoft is proposing to buy Yahoo at a substantial premium over Yahoo’s current stock value.  This is an attempt to Microsoft to gain leverage in the search engine market against Google. [Update: obviously, the sale did not go very far]