The world’s junk mail folders are breathing a sigh of relief today: The servers are operated by McColo Corp., which these experts say has emerged as a major U.S. hosting service for international firms and syndicates that are involved in everything from the remote management of millions of compromised computers to the sale of counterfeit pharmaceuticals and designer goods, fake security products and child pornography via email. But the company’s web site was not accessible today, when two Internet providers cut off MoColo’s connectivity to the Internet, security experts said….

If you use WPA to secure your WiFi router (What? You’re using WEP? What’s the matter with you?), it’s time to switch to WPA2. That’s because Erik Tews who is best known for cracking WEP in under a minute has cracked WPA. The scary part is that he can do this in 15 minutes because of a “mathematical breakthrough” that he made: The attack, described as the first practical attack on WPA, will be discussed at the PacSec conference in Tokyo next week. There, researcher Erik Tews will show how…

The CRTC has once again delayed it’s decision regarding Bell Canada’s practice of throttling it’s 3rd party DSL wholesalers. We SHOULD be expecting an answer in November according to the CBC, but until then, Bell will continue dialing back bandwidth. CAIP said Bell had broken the Telecommunications Act by changing the terms of its wholesale service without giving its members notice. Bell countered by saying the throttling is necessary to prevent congestion, which is within its network management rights. Of course, as we reported back in the spring, Bell’s claim…