http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/ Tracking key issues for independent ISPs: changes in policy, technology and monopoly business practices. en-us 2009-02-27T15:02:44-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2009/02/adtrans-10k-is-mostly-good-new.html On Friday, ADTRAN reported results for the fiscal year 2008. The company makes telecommunications equipment and is thus a good barometer for the industry. The company has always claimed to deliver better engineered and cheaper products from its headquarters in... agoldman 2009-02-27T15:02:44-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2009/02/ispcon-closes.html I am writing this blog note to inform the ISP community that ISPCON will not run this year or in the foreseeable future. A conference that predates the Internet (when it was known as BBSCON, some of you may recall... agoldman 2009-02-25T14:07:19-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2009/02/adobe-should-fix-vulnerability.html If you missed it, Adobe last week admitted that Acrobat Reader is vulnerable to an attack that exploits a buffer overflow to place a downloader on the victim's PC. The downloader can then download and install a keylogger or other... agoldman 2009-02-23T12:27:34-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2009/02/smk-at-black-hat.html internetnews.com's Sean Michael Kerner is at Black Hat DC 2009, and he's got some fascinating information from it on his blog. He has four stories: 1) One presenter claims you can hack a satellite feed with less than $1000 worth... agoldman 2009-02-19T11:53:46-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2009/02/useful-information-for-anyone.html If you or your customers are facing foreclosure, make sure that the company demanding your money has proof that it owns your debt. The AP article from yesterday, Homeowners' rallying cry: Produce the note, starts with this: "Kathy Lovelace lost... agoldman 2009-02-18T10:24:46-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2009/02/charter-expected-to-file-for-b.html Hindsight is 20/20, but it looks now as if Paul Allen should have sold Charter Communications some time ago. He considered doing so as long ago as August, 2007. More recently, the rumors have been bankruptcy, and today it was... agoldman 2009-02-12T15:06:17-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2009/02/smk-no-protection-against-sql.html In his blog entry, Kaspersky attack should have us all worried, internetnews.com's Sean Michael Kerner writes, "The reality from where I sit is that anti-virus software cannot stop a SQL injection attack." Recently, the security company Kaspersky admitted that it... agoldman 2009-02-11T02:20:13-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2009/02/small-businesses-shutting-down.html An unnamed source tells me that credit card companies are cutting the limits on small business credit cards. A few have seen their limits cut to their outstanding balance. Those small ISPs that are able to will be paying off... agoldman 2009-02-10T15:25:06-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2009/02/economist-magazine-poorly-mana.html We've put it on the ISP-Planet home page. The Economist magazine, which is no liberal rant haven, writes: Perhaps the biggest risk of all these broadband plans is that incumbents will exploit the crisis to gain regulatory concessions limiting competition... agoldman 2009-02-09T14:03:56-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2009/02/google-error-highlight-data-en.html It's time to admit that data entry errors happen. A year or two ago, someone told me at ISPCON that his biggest fear about his own data center is a technician mistyping a command. That happened to Google just a... agoldman 2009-02-02T16:51:34-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2009/01/why-magicjack-fails-for-busine.html It claims to be the fastest growing phone company in the U.S. but I don't recommend it for business. After it crashed during my latest interview (you'll see the story next Wednesday), I decided to contact help and ask for... agoldman 2009-01-29T14:59:05-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2009/01/verizons-latest-dumb-idea.html Make cell phone calls over broadband -- and still use your minutes! That's the latest dumb idea from Verizon (h/t Karl Bode of BBR). ISPs that are not also cell phone providers like femtocells. The idea is that a cell... agoldman 2009-01-27T10:24:02-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2009/01/ispplanet-asks-for-your-input.html ISP-Planet's first article about Managed Security Service Providers was published in 1999, Managed Security Service: A Primer, written by security gurus Lisa Phifer and David Piscitello. The first Managed Security Service Provider Survey was in 2001, written by Lisa Phifer,... agoldman 2009-01-21T10:22:17-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2009/01/julius-genachowski-nominated-t.html The replacement for Kevin Martin wrote on the Obama website in 2007 that Obama's plan can be summarized as: Open Government. Open Networks. Open Markets. This will be a big change from Kevin Martin. However, other than this statement, we... agoldman 2009-01-13T15:14:44-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2009/01/comcast-building-500-tb-projec.html "Project Canoe" is a cable TV industry joint venture announced in 2007 to aggregate and sell viewing data. So far, this is about TV metrics, and not about the internet, now called Canoe Ventures. The joint venture between six big... agoldman 2009-01-12T10:19:56-05:00