The major incidents on the Internet in 2010. In what has become something of a yearly tradition, it’s now time for us to present 10 of the most noteworthy incidents on the Internet from this past year. As you’ll see, 2010 has been very interesting. Just like previous years, we have included problems ranging from website outages and service issues to large-scale network interruptions. If you’re an avid Web user, you are bound to recognize several of them. Let’s get started! The major incidents on the Internet in 2010 were… Wikipedia’s failover fail Wikipedia has become so ubiquitous that it can’t go down for a minute without people noticing. In March, when servers in Wikimedia’s European data center overheated and shut down, the service was supposed to fail over to a US data center. WordPress.com’s big-blog crash WordPress.com got a pretty bad start this year when a network issue caused the biggest outage the service had seen in four years.
Gmail’s multiple outages China reroutes the Internet Twitter’s World Cup woes Tumblr’s tumble. Defense Information Systems Network. The Defense Information System Network (DISN) has been the United States Department of Defense's enterprise network for providing data, video and voice services for 40 years.[1] The DISN Leading Edge Services (DISN-LES) is a "Next Generation" network providing wide area Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) connectivity to worldwide subscriber sites. The network is used by subscribers and DISA's GE-51 Program Office to test systems, equipment, network monitoring and management technologies, trouble shooting, and help desk procedures.
The DISN-LES also provides technologies such as quality of service protocols. Supported capabilities include video teleconferencing and other collaborative tools such as electronic whiteboarding and distributed war-fighting simulations. Another network focus is compatibility testing among products produced on evolving standards. DISN End-to-End Infrastructure Responsibilities[edit] The DISN end-to-end infrastructure is composed of three major segments: Pingdom web site monitoring blog - Everything about uptime, downtime, servers, internet and technology. FOIA Documents Reveal Homeland Security is Monitoring Political Dissent.
10 Immutable Laws of Security. Here at the Microsoft Security Response Center, we investigate thousands of security reports every year. In some cases, we find that a report describes a bona fide security vulnerability resulting from an issue in one of our products; when this happens, we develop a corrective update as quickly as possible. In other cases, the reported problems simply result from a mistake someone made in using the product, or our investigation finds a problem with the product that, while troublesome for users, does not expose them to a security vulnerability. But many fall in between. They are genuine security problems, but the problems don't result from product flaws. Over the years, we've developed a list of issues like these that we call the 10 Immutable Laws of Security. Don't hold your breath waiting for an update that will protect you from the issues we'll discuss below.
It isn't possible for Microsoft—or any software vendor—to "fix" them, because they result from the way computers work. Defense against the Black Arts: How Hackers Do What They Do and How to Protect against It (9781439821190): Jesse Varsalone, Matthew Mcfadden, Michael Schearer, Sean Morrissey, Ben Smith. Stanford Security Laboratory.