These are tough times for IPTV service ITVN. The subscription-based service, which offered hundreds of average to above average quality channels (like 600K streams… think really good Internet streaming) to its subscribers, will no longer be offering Setanta Sports starting next month. Setanta Sports, an Irish corp, broadcasts “other” sports like soccer and rugby here […]

These are tough times for IPTV service ITVN. The subscription-based service, which offered hundreds of average to above average quality channels (like 600K streams… think really good Internet streaming) to its subscribers, will no longer be offering Setanta Sports starting next month. Setanta Sports, an Irish corp, broadcasts “other” sports like soccer and rugby here in the U.S. Setanta sent out e-mails to its ITVN subscribers in current days saying that ITVN has “ceased to trade.”

In other words, if you subscribed to Setanta via ITVN, you’d better find another way to watch within the next month or your weekends spent watching C. Ronaldo and Rooney are over. (Easiest way would be to subscribe to Setanta Broadband, $15 per month, Windows or Mac.)

ITVN hasn’t had the ideal of luck this past year. Last autumn, users had flooded message boards complaining of server problems during the massive Liverpool-ManU game. Customer service was stated to be, at best, so-so, too.

Things will probably hot up once the end of the month rolls around and subscribers begin getting bills in the mail.

ITVN in trouble? [MaXxed Football Forums]

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Stealing passwords on a LAN is trivial. This linked video (you can’t embed it anywhere, so you’ll have to actually visit the site to see it), which is something like a year old, shows how Windows users can get in on the fun using Cain & Abel. I bring this up because if social networks […]

Stealing passwords on a LAN is trivial. This linked video (you can’t embed it anywhere, so you’ll have to actually visit the site to see it), which is something like a year old, shows how Windows users can get in on the fun using Cain & Abel.

I bring this up because if social networks are supposed to be the next huge thing (which is what I learned at SXSW), they’re gonna need to take security more seriously. A few weeks ago I was screwing around with Biggs’ Facebook profile, exploiting a terribly written third-part app. Who’s to say Scrabulous or some other popular app doesn’t have some wicked security hole in there? Yes, a MITM attack and awful code are two different things, but practicing good security habits is an all-encompasing activity.

In fact, part of the reason why I was on that security panel at SXSW was because I told the story of how during my freshman year of college I used ettercap, aimsniff, ethereal, etc. to, let’s state, cruise my dorm building’s network. Facebook passwords, AIM conversations, you name it. Found a few interesting things, I did, such as my roommate “cybering” with someone. Scandalous!

Video: Man-in-the-Middle Attack on MySpace with Cain [The Ethical Hacker via Slashdot]

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