The Internet on the verge of Collapsing (Part 3)

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cable3.jpgSatellites were tried but they had a lot of problems so the best way is still with land-borne transmission methods. From relays, switches to routers to all the various parts, they are ageing at a fast pace that the technology and amount of users last year have increased so much that another capacity change is needed. Hot swapped parts in redundant systems have to be reconfigured to cover for the redundant devices that have already failed to restore their back-up capacities. Older switches and routers have to be replaced with newer and faster ones that can do more than double the capacity of current technology
Browser Injections of Microsoft SQL sites on the Rise
As we all know, every hole needs someone to find it before it can literally be called a hole. A current analysis of the type of malware attack that capitalizes on many web browser’s using Microsoft’s SQL system is on the rise in what was previously a trivial pursuit for hackers. IT Security experts are seeing an alarming rise in the types of attacks that use the SQL system to download payloads without the user even knowing it even when visiting legitimate web sites. In reality, there is no way of knowing if the site you are visiting is compromised till you notice the weird behavior of your system that signifies malware activity. The hackers have found a way of using a generic approach of using the signatures of legitimate web sites through Microsoft’s SQL system which is used by thousands of legitimate sites and using that as a means of getting their programs (malware) into the unsuspecting computer’s browser making it into a propagation tool or for some other reason that we will be sure of that is something not to your liking.

Apr 1st, 2008

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