Network World on P2P http://www.nwfusion.com/topics/p2p.html The latest peer-to-peer news and analysis from Network World Fusion. Network World, Inc. Copyright(C) 1994 - 2009 Network World, Inc. Conficker, the Internet's No. 1 threat, gets an update http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/040909-conficker-the-internets-no-1.html Security researchers say a worm that has infected millions of computers worldwide has been reprogrammed to strengthen its defenses while also trying to attack more machines. Jeremy Kirk 2009-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 Data About Presidential Helicopter Leaked via P2P http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/030909-data-about-presidential-helicopter-leaked.html A company that monitors peer-to-peer networks said it found classified information about the systems used onboard the U.S. president's helicopter in a shared folder on a computer in Iran, after a file containing the data was accidentally leaked on a peer-to-peer network last summer. Jaikumar Vijayan 2009-03-09T12:00:00-04:00 Researchers applying P2P to traffic control http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/010709-p2p-traffic-control.html University of California, Irvine researchers are applying lessons learned from music and video peer-to-peer file transfer networks to a system for reducing traffic jams on the roads. Network World Staff 2009-01-07T12:00:00-04:00 P2P legislation forcing university IT to get tough on piracy http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/102308-p2p-college-legislation.html A new law aimed at stopping illegal peer-to-peer file-sharing of digital entertainment content, such as music and videos, requires the nation's colleges and universities to educate students that P2P piracy is illegal and strongly encourages the use of technology to monitor and block illegal P2P. Ellen Messmer 2008-10-23T12:00:00-04:00 Comcast cap may mean less snooping on your browsing http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/093008-comcast-cap-may-mean-less.html Comcast's move to limit its broadband customers' throughput to 250GB per month starting in October might anger those who want unlimited access, but it's actually good for privacy. Because the cap applies to all traffic equally, it doesn't require that Comcast snoop for particular types of application data. Contrast that with its previous (and initially undisclosed) practice of interfering with peer-to-peer traffic (in an effort to limit customers' downloading of huge, bandwidth-hogging files). The ISP says less than 1 percent of customers will be affected. Erik Larkin 2008-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 A 'C change' in CDN? http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2008/091008nolle.html In the world of content distribution networks, A is for Akamai. What about the rest? Is B for BitGravity, or maybe BitTorrent because of the potential impact of peer-to-peer technology on CDNs? Is C for content? I don’t think so. I think it’s for carrier or maybe cloud; and in either case, the "C change" is potentially a major one for the CDN world. Thomas Nolle 2008-09-10T12:00:00-04:00 Should you block P2P traffic? http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/frame/2008/081808wan1.html In the past two newsletters we've been discussing the FCC's ruling on Comcast selectively blocking certain applications - especially peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic - in its Internet service. This raises once again the question of whether P2P traffic is inherently "bad." Steve Taylor and Jim Metzler 2008-08-19T12:00:00-04:00 New worm transcodes MP3s to try to infect PCs http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/071808-new-worm-transcodes-mp3s-to.html A new kind of malicious software could pose a danger to Windows users who download music files on peer-to-peer networks. Jeremy Kirk 2008-07-18T12:00:00-04:00 How the FCC's Comcast ruling could affect traffic management http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/071708-comcast-fcc.html A look at what adopting open Internet principles will mean for Comcast and other ISPs Brad Reed 2008-07-17T12:00:00-04:00