Fresh Crop of 340 Undecillion IP Addresses Now Available

It’s official: The Internet recently ran out of IPv4 Internet addresses. But fear not, there’s a new round of addresses and it looks like they won’t exhaust anytime soon, with the introduction of 340 undecillion new, fresh addresses.

If you haven’t heard of undecillion before, it means a trillion trillion, which is notably more than the 4.3 billion IPv4 Internet…

Tuscon Man Held for 2009 Super Bowl Porn Interruption

An Arizona man accused of interrupting the 2009 broadcast of Super Bowl with a 37-second clip of pornography has been arrested on charges of fraud and computer tampering, the Arizona Attorney General’s Office announced.

Frank Tanori Gonzalez was arrested last week for his alleged role in interrupting the local Comcast feed of the game between the Arizona Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers, Feb. 1, 2009, with what Reuters…

Comcast Hackers Get 18-Month Prison Sentences

Two men accused of hacking the Comcast website were sentenced last week to 18 months in prison.

Christopher Allen Lewis, aka “EBK,” of Newark, Del., and Michael Paul Nebel, aka “Slacker,” of Kalamazoo, Mich., previously pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to disrupt service at Comcast‘s website May 28 and 29, 2008.

Lewis, Nebel and co-defendant James Robert Black, Jr., aka “Defiant,” were members of hacker group Kryogeniks. On May…

Scam Compromises Email Accounts

The other day, Microsoft confirmed that a number of Hotmail account login information was compromised and posted online. It now appears that the breach is significantly wider, extending to Gmail, AOL, Yahoo, Earthlink and Comcast email accounts.

Over 30,000 accounts have been posted online according to a list the BBC viewed. Google has moved…