ISIS is using IP addresses the UK sold to Saudi Arabia

IP addresses being used by ISIS and traced by teenage computer hackers back to the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions are likely to be among those sold to Saudi Arabian telecoms companies this year, the British government has claimed. In a convenient admission given the charge levelled at the UK government by the VandaSec hacker team that someone at DwP has set up ISIS Twitter accounts, the Cabinet Office now says it’s been selling off IP addresses to make money for taxpayers. The world ran out of IPv4 addresses completely in July of this year, raising the value of addresses significantly and triggering a land-grab…

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