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• Comcast announces new bandwidth throttling scheme (update: old news)

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 162
  Comcast customers have been no stranger to bandwidth shenanigans over the years, from the whole torrent filtering mess to the 250GB monthly cap . Now the company is back with a new data throttling scheme intended to put the kibosh on excessive traffic during those times when the network is already being overwhelmed. ...
  6 days ago

• Comcast announces new bandwidth throttling scheme

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 162
  Comcast customers have been no stranger to bandwidth shenanigans over the years, from the whole torrent filtering mess to the 250GB monthly cap . The rest is here: Comcast announces new bandwidth throttling scheme
  6 days ago

• Cable Modem Hacker Indicted on Federal Charges

  
  OStatic blogs — Authority: 654
  In a case reminiscent of the DVD hacking cases from the early 2000s, Oregon cable modem hacker and author of "Hacking the Cable Modem" has been charged with conspiracy and aiding and abetting wire fraud . This is another sad commentary on a criminal justice system that prosecutes the toolmaker without noting the ...
  6 days ago

• Cable Modem Hacker Indicted on Federal Charges

  
  OStatic blogs — Authority: 654
  In a case reminiscent of the DVD hacking cases from the early 2000s, Oregon cable modem hacker and author of "Hacking the Cable Modem" has been charged with conspiracy and aiding and abetting wire fraud . This is another sad commentary on a criminal justice system that prosecutes the toolmaker without noting the ...
  6 days ago

• Comcasts New Throttling Plan Uses Trigger Conditions, Not Silent Blocking

  
  IT Professionals Database (ITPD) - The European IT Professionals Database Networking Platform — Authority: 139
  clang_jangle writes with this excerpt from The Inquirer outlining Comcasts new traffic-throttling scheme, based on information from Comcasts latest FCC filing. "Its network throttling implements a two-tier packet queueing system at the routers, driven by two trigger conditions. Comcasts first traffic throttling ...
  1 week ago

• Cable modem hacking expert indicted on fraud charges

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 455
  Ryan Harris—known by the alias DerEngel—is an expert on cable modem hacking, an art that he describes at length in a 2006 instructional guide that was published by No Starch Press. He runs a small company that sells unlocked cable modems with custom firmware and provides instructional material that explains how to ...
  1 week ago

• Guy Who Helped Mod Cable Modems Arrested By The FBI

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 460
  What a world we live in: if you tinker too much with the electronic equipment you buy, you might get charged with a crime. That seems to be what happened to a guy in Oregon who helps mod cable modems . Now, clearly, some people can and do use modded cable modems to access cable service that they havent paid for, but ...
  1 week ago

• Feds Bust Cable Modem Hacker

  
  IT Professionals Database (ITPD) - The European IT Professionals Database Networking Platform — Authority: 139
  Several readers noted the indictment of hardware hacker Ryan Harris, known as DerEngel. Harris wrote the 2006 book Hacking the Cable Modem, explaining how to get upgraded speed or even free Internet service by bypassing the firmware locks on Motorola Surfboard modems. He has run a profitable business at tcniso.net ...
  1 week ago

• Beijing Gehua Powers Personalized Media Experiences with Motorola’s DOCSIS 3.0 Integrated CMTS Solution

  
  Electronic Industry News — Authority: 484
  Beijing Gehua Powers Personalized Media Experiences with Motorola’s DOCSIS 3.0 Integrated CMTS Solution Motorola’s Integrated Cable Modem Termination System (I-CMTS) solution enables data throughput up to 160Mbps over Gehua’s cable network, delivering new ultra-broadband Internet services to subscribers M ...
  1 week ago

• Cable cleanup turns into network fiasco

  
  Computerworld Blogs — Authority: 514
  An effort to manage cable clutter and save energy goes horribly wrong. read more
  1 week ago

• Idle Appliances Drain Power, Money

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 157
  Original Author:  jer45y@gmail.com (James Rowen) I ran across some interesting data from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory the other day describing how much energy we/I waste when appliances are not in use, but remain plugged in with those little red or green "on" lights ...
  1 week ago

• Gaping security hole in Time Warner cable routers

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 548
  A gaping security hole in cable modems distributed to Time Warner/Road Runner customers could potentially be exploited remotely to access private networks and possibly capture and manipulate private data. That’s the warning issued by David Chen, a blogger and start-up founder who discovered he could trivially ...
  2 weeks ago

• Does your Time Warner Cable modem have a security flaw?

  
  The Orange County Register - Tustin — Authority: 821
  A blogger discovered flaw last week. The modem is from Irvines SMC Networks.
  2 weeks ago

• Dangerous Security Hole in Time Warner Cable Routers Revealed

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 565
  An independent developer has discovered a glaring vulnerability in certain cable modems on Time Warner/Road Runner cable networks . Wired says that 65,000 customers have the affected device . The SMC8014 is a combination cable modem and WiFi router. David Chen says that, like some other broadband providers, Time ...
  2 weeks ago

• Time Warner Cable Modems Expose Users

  
  IT Professionals Database (ITPD) - The European IT Professionals Database Networking Platform — Authority: 139
  eldavojohn writes "Wired is reporting on a simple hack putting some 65,000 customers at risk. The hack to gain administrative access to the cable modem/router combo is remarkably simple: [David] Chen, founder of a software startup called Pip.io, said he was trying to help a friend change the settings on his cable ...
  2 weeks ago

• Time Warner Cable Exposes 65,000 Customer Routers to Remote Hacks

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  Time Warner Cable Exposes 65,000 Customer Routers to Remote Hacks : Via Threat Level . A vulnerability in a Time Warner cable modem and Wi-Fi router deployed to 65,000 customers would allow a hacker to remotely access the device’s administrative menu over the internet, and potentially change the settings to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Motorola SB6120 SURFboard DOCSIS 3.0 eXtreme Broadband Cable Modem

  
  Discount and Promotion Products — Authority: 129
  Motorola SB6120 SURFboard DOCSIS 3.0 eXtreme Broadband Cable Modem.Motorola’s easy to use SURFboard DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem unlocks the potential of offering innovative high-bandwidth data and multimedia services. Binding: Electronics Manufacturer: Motorola List Price: USD 99.99 Lowest New Price: USD ...
  4 weeks ago

• Comcast’s plan for profit: raise cable modem rent

  
  Third Pipe, the future of broadband — Authority: 127
  If your are a Comcast customer, you can look forward to paying more to rent that $30 lump of plastic that connects you to it’s network. Washington State users already experienced this as part of a suite of other Comcast rate hikes , but the cable giant now says they’ll be increasing their cable modem rental fee ...
  8 weeks ago

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