Our Geo-IP technology system recognises IP addresses provided by UK-based internet service providers (ISPs).
Rouland says at least 400 Linux computers -- with IP addresses indicating they may be located mainly in the U.S., Romania, and Australia -- have already been compromised by Trinity.
Most of the other requests were for non-content data such as login names, IP addresses or other low-level identifiers.
If companies do continue to police their wiki-reputation, Fertik says, they'll most likely start using third-party IP addresses to mask changes.
It also couldn't examine the technology to determine if its capturing of e-mail, IP addresses and other traffic violated the privacy of other customers.
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Wired.com reported in August that Griffith created an application called WikiScanner that tracks edits that have been made to Wikipedia articles and cross-references them against IP addresses, which can be traced back to companies' offices.
Rouland points out that ISS Tuesday discovered a chat room called "IP Victims" on Yahoo that is being used for the exchange of IP addresses of machines compromised by the Trojan horse Back Orifice and an older distributed denial-of-service attack tool called Sub Seven.
Plus, he said, Ripe and other agencies were planning to reserve a chunk of addresses for new entrants and to help with migration to the new addressing scheme - IP version 6 (IPV6).
No urls, browsing histories or IP addresses are retained and the raw data used to make the match is deleted in real time - by the time the page loads.
With every innovation that results in a new Internet-enabled device, things like picture frames, automobiles, televisions and home appliances, more IP addresses are used up. 4.3 billion addresses are simply not enough to meet growing consumer demand.
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