TUSHAR’S BLOG

after i made a new website  www.imtushar.com  i left this off

but im back

India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) passed an order to ISPs Friday to block several websites. The list is confidential. Indian ISPs have been slowly coming into compliance. SpectraNet, MTNL, Reliance, and as of Monday afternoon, Airtel. State-backed BSNL and VSNL have not started yet but likely will soon. The known list of blocked domains is *.blogspot.com, *.typepad.com and geocities.com/*.Yes folks, the Indian government has decided to censor blogs and refused to explain why. This morning Shivam Vij managed to talk to Dr Gulshan Rai, director of CERT-IN, the only body authorised to issue directives to ISPs. His response: “Somebody must have asked for some sites to be blocked. What is your problem?”

thats all i could find till now
im still trying
but they dont give out addresses of people like that

someone asked me for the address of mr somnath

this was a story i took up from times of india
so i will look up for the address but im not sure if its easily available

good to see that indians abroad are concerned

Companies should avoid investing in Symantec’s network security appliances, and should evaluate offerings from other vendors, Gartner has warned.

The analyst firm said that it issued the warning because it believes that Symantec is moving away from selling network security appliances as it concentrates on “new business directions”.

Gartner’s advice comes after Symantec told some customers on 23 June that it is winding down development of the Symantec Gateway Security (SGS) and Symantec Network Security (SNS) products.

“Avoid investing in SGS and SNS products. Move to other solutions at the next refresh point,” a Gartner advisory written by analysts Greg Young and John Pescatore warned.

“Symantec is terminating its investments in the SGS multifunction appliance and SNS intrusion prevention system products. Symantec also recently ended support for the Symantec Enterprise Firewall product.” Continue reading Avoid Symantec appliances…

Computer experts from the University of Cambridge claim not only to have breached the Great Firewall of China, but have found a way to use the firewall to launch denial-of-service attacks against specific Internet Protocol addresses in the country.

The firewall, which uses routers supplied by Cisco, works in part by inspecting Web traffic for certain keywords that the Chinese government wishes to censor, including political ideologies and groups it finds unacceptable.

The Cambridge research group tested the firewall by firing data packets containing the word “Falun” at it, a reference to the Falun Gong religious group, which is banned in China.

The researchers found that it was possible to circumvent the Chinese intrusion detection systems by ignoring the forged transmission control protocol resets injected by the Chinese routers, which would normally force the endpoints to abandon the connection.

“The machines in China allow data packets in and out, but send a burst of resets to shut connections if they spot particular keywords,” explained Richard Clayton of the University of Cambridge computer laboratory. “If you drop all the reset packets at both ends of the connection, which is relatively trivial to do, the Web page is transferred just fine.”

Clayton added that this means the Chinese firewall can be used to launch denial-of-service attacks against specific IP addresses within China, including those of the Chinese government itself.

The IDS uses a stateless server, which examines each data packet both going in and out of the firewall individually, unrelated to any previous request. By forging the source address of a packet containing a “sensitive” keyword, people could trigger the firewall to block access between source and destination addresses for up to an hour at a time. Continue reading Academics break the Great Firewall of China…

The crowd’s reaction appeared to stem from Ronaldo’s actions after Wayne Rooney was sent off in Portugal’s quarter-final match with England.

But after the match in Munich, which France won 1-0, Ronaldo, 21, insisted: “I was pleased about being booed.

“Maybe France fans were upset to see a dangerous player. I’m not worried.”

Ronaldo criticised referee Jorge Larrionda for his display in the match, claiming that the Uruguayan was biased against his side.

“We played well and did our best but the referee didn’t help us,” the Manchester United player said. Continue reading Ronaldo defiant after crowd abuse…