| Week of 12-5-11 FileServ.
Description: Fileserver is a free file-hosting, online storage, and file-sharing service.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 443 Meg (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 78
Standard Ports: tcp/80,20,21
Capable of File Transfer: Yes
Used by Malware: Yes
Excessive Bandwidth Use: Yes
Evasive: Yes
Risk Level: 5 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: General Internet
Technology: File-Sharing This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 10-31-11 Vimeo.
Description: Vimeo is a video-centric social networking site (owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp) which launched in November 2004. The site supports embedding, sharing, video storage, and user-commenting on each video page. Users must register to upload content. Registered users may also create a profile and upload small user pictures as their avatars, comment and "like" videos. Vimeo does not allow commercial videos, gaming videos, pornography, or anything not created by the user to be hosted on the site.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 11.3 Gig (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 12,396
Standard Ports: tcp/80
Capable of File Transfer: Yes
Used by Malware: Yes
Excessive Bandwidth Use: Yes
Evasive: Yes
Risk Level: 5 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: Media
Technology: Photo-Video This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 10-24-11 iCloud.
Description: iCloud is set of cloud services from Apple Inc., that work with applications on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC to automatically and wirelessly store your content in iCloud and automatically and wirelessly push it to all your devices. It also replaces Apple's MobileMe program.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 196.5 Meg (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 17,413
Standard Ports: tcp/80,443
Capable of File Transfer: Yes
Used by Malware: No
Excessive Bandwidth Use: No
Evasive: No
Risk Level: 3 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: No
Category: General Intenret
Technology: Internet Utility This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 10-17-11 Open-vpn.
Description: Open VPN is a free and open source virtual private network (VPN) program for creating point-to-point or server-to-multiclient encrypted tunnels between host computers. It is capable of establishing direct links between computers that are behind NAT firewalls without requiring reconfiguration. It was written by James Yonan and is published under the GNU General Public License (GPL) .
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 3.6 Gig (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 3,951
Standard Ports: tcp/1194, tcp/443, udp/1194
Capable of File Transfer: Yes
Used by Malware: No
Excessive Bandwidth Use: No
Evasive: No
Risk Level: 3 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: Networking
Technology: encrypted-tunnel This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 10-10-11 Steam.
Description: Steam is a massive gaming community, which can straightly deliver games to people's desktop once join in.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 35.9 Gig (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 3,951
Standard Ports: tcp/80tcp/27014-27050, udp/3748,4379-4380,27000-27030
Capable of File Transfer: No
Used by Malware: Yes
Excessive Bandwidth Use: Yes
Evasive: No
Risk Level: 3 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: Media
Technology: Gaming This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 10-3-11 iTunes Media Store.
Description: This identifies all traffic associated with users downloading video and music content using iTunes. iTunes is a proprietary media player computer program, used for playing and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone and iPad. iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store to purchase and download music, music videos, television shows, iPod games, audiobooks, podcasts, movies and movie rentals (not available in all countries), and ringtones.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 49.2 Gig (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 3,951
Standard Ports: tcp/80
Capable of File Transfer: Yes
Used by Malware: No
Excessive Bandwidth Use: Yes
Evasive: No
Risk Level: 3 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: Media
Technology: Audio-Streaming This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 9-26-11 Pandora.
Description: Pandora is an automated music recommendation and Internet radio service created by The Music Genome Project.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 46.8 Gig (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 213,064
Standard Ports: tcp/80,443
Capable of File Transfer: Yes
Used by Malware: No
Excessive Bandwidth Use: Yes
Evasive: No
Risk Level: 3 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: Media
Technology: Audio-Streaming This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 9-12-11 smpv2.
Description: Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an Internet-standard protocol for managing devices on IP networks. Devices that typically support SNMP include routers, switches, servers, workstations, printers, modem racks, and more. SNMP is used by network management systems to monitor network-attached devices for conditions that warrant administrative attention. This identifies version 2 of the protocol.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 12.6 Gig (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 10,062
Standard Ports: tcp/161, udp/161
Capable of File Transfer: No
Used by Malware: No
Excessive Bandwidth Use: No
Evasive: No
Risk Level: 2 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: Networking
Technology: Client-Server This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 9-12-11 Ares.
Description: Ares Galaxy is an open source peer-to-peer file sharing program for Microsoft Windows. It is written in Delphi. Proponents for the software claim that it is able to download quickly, has a better and more complete search function than other file-sharing programs, and connects quickly.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 5.9 Gig (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 17,289
Standard Ports: tcp/32285,6000,6346-6351, udp/6346-6351
Capable of File Transfer: Yes
Used by Malware: Yes
Excessive Bandwidth Use: Yes
Evasive: Yes
Risk Level: 5 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: General Intenret
Technology: Peer-to-Peer This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 9-5-11 Facebook-Base.
Description: Facebook (branded as "facebook") is a social networking website launched on February 4, 2004. The free-access website is privately owned and operated by Facebook, Inc. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profile to notify friends about themselves. The website's name refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of a campus community that some American colleges and prepatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus. Features include a Wall for posting messages and Photos for uploading digital photos. The website has more than 80 million active users worldwide.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 4.1 Gig (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 319,652
Standard Ports: tcp/80/443
Capable of File Transfer: Yes
Used by Malware: Yes
Excessive Bandwidth Use: No
Evasive: No
Risk Level: 4 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: Collaboration
Technology: Social-networking This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 8-29-11 Facebook-Mail.
Description: This application detects when users are sending emails using facebook.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 656 Meg (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 10,712
Standard Ports: tcp/80/443
Capable of File Transfer: No
Used by Malware: No
Excessive Bandwidth Use: No
Evasive: No
Risk Level: 2 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: Collaboration
Technology: Browser Based This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 8-22-11 CompuTrace.
Description: Computrace provides Computer Theft Recovery, Data Protection and basic Secure Asset Tracking reports. ComputracePlus enables IT professionals to track their organization's computer assets, recover lost or stolen machines and remotely wipe sensitive data if a computer is lost, stolen or nearing the end of its lifecycle. This product is often also referred to as LoJack for Laptops.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 70.1 Meg (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 10,065
Standard Ports: tcp/80
Capable of File Transfer: No
Used by Malware: No
Excessive Bandwidth Use: Yes
Evasive: Yes
Risk Level: 3 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: Business-Systems
Technology: General-Business This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 8-15-11 FaceBook-Chat.
Description: Facebook chat was released to the entire Facebook userbase. Users are only able to chat with their Facebook friends and on a one-to-one basis.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 4.1 Gig (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 63,515
Standard Ports: tcp/80,443
Capable of File Transfer: No
Used by Malware: No
Excessive Bandwidth Use: Yes
Evasive: Yes
Risk Level: 3 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: Colllaboration
Technology: Instant-Messaging This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 8-8-11 qqMusic.
Description: QQMusic is a free music player launched by Tencent QQ. It has massive online music library, where user can read the song's lyrics and even play them in karaoke mode.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 47.1 Gig (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 47,064,760
Standard Ports: tcp/80
Capable of File Transfer: Yes
Used by Malware: No
Excessive Bandwidth Use: Yes
Evasive: Yes
Risk Level: 3 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: No
Category: Media
Technology: Audio-Streaming This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 8-1-11 tumblr-base.
Description: Tumblr is a microblogging platform that allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog. Users can follow other users, or choose to make their tumblelog private.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 1.9 Gig (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 27,013
Standard Ports: tcp/80
Capable of File Transfer: No
Used by Malware: No
Excessive Bandwidth Use: No
Evasive: No
Risk Level: 2 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: Browser-Based
Technology: Social-Networking This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 7-25-11 Weather-Desktop.
Description: The Weather Channel Desktop gives you instant access to real-time local weather and alerts you whenever severe storms threaten. You're just one click away from detailed information on your local weather conditions as well as your favorite cities worldwide.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 171 Gig (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 18,717
Standard Ports: tcp/80
Capable of File Transfer: No
Used by Malware: No
Excessive Bandwidth Use: No
Evasive: No
Risk Level: 2 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: General-Internet
Technology: Browser-Based This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 7-18-11 IRC-base.
Description:Internet Relay Chat is a form of realtime internet chat. It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: .38 Meg (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 5,614
Standard Ports: tcp/6665-6669
Capable of File Transfer: Yes
Used by Malware: Yes
Excessive Bandwidth Use: No
Evasive: No
Risk Level: 5 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: Collaboration
Technology: Instant-Messaging This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 7-11-11 iHeartRadio.
Description: Listen to 750 Free Online Radio Stations From 150 Cities.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 28 Meg (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 3,306
Standard Ports: tcp/80,443,1935
Capable of File Transfer: No
Used by Malware: No
Excessive Bandwidth Use: Yes
Evasive: Yes
Risk Level: 3 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: Media
Technology: Audio-Streaming This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 7-4-11 ppstream.
Description: PPStream is a P2P software for Streaming Internet TV. It can broadcast TV programs stably and smoothly to broadband users. Currently the majority of PPStream TV channels are from China, Japan, Hong-Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. Channel varieties vary from Chinese movies to Japanese Animes and also sports channels, as well as American popular TV and films.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 4 gig (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 6,220
Standard Ports: tcp/dynamic, udp/dynamic
Capable of File Transfer: Yes
Used by Malware: No
Excessive Bandwidth Use: Yes
Evasive: Yes
Risk Level: 4 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: Media
Technology: Peer-to-Peer This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 6-20-11 Apple-App-Store.
Description: Apple's App Store for Mac and iTunes Store for iOS devices (iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad) allow users to browse, search, download, and update apps that were developed with the iOS SDK or Mac SDK and published through Apple. The Mac App Store is available as a Mac OS X software update.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 27 gig (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 9,557
Standard Ports: tcp/80,443,dynamic
Capable of File Transfer: Yes
Used by Malware: No
Excessive Bandwidth Use: No
Evasive: Yes
Risk Level: 4 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: General Internet
Technology: Internet Utility This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 6-13-11 Irc-base.
Description: Internet Relay Chat is a form of realtime internet chat. It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 1 gig (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 14,466
Standard Ports: tcp/6665-6669
Capable of File Transfer: Yes
Used by Malware: Yes
Excessive Bandwidth Use: No
Evasive: No
Risk Level: 5 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: Collaboration
Technology: Instant-Messaging This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 6-5-11 Facebook-Apps.
Description: Facebook launched the Facebook Platform on May 24, 2007, providing a framework for software developers to create applications that interact with core Facebook features. A markup language called Facebook Markup Language was introduced simultaneously; it is used to customize the "look and feel" of applications that developers create. Using the Platform, Facebook launched several new applications, including Gifts, allowing users to send virtual gifts to each other, Marketplace, allowing users to post free classified ads, Events, giving users a method of informing their friends about upcoming events, and Video, letting users share homemade videos with one another.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 314 Meg (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 10,163
Standard Ports: tcp/80
Capable of File Transfer: No
Used by Malware: Yes
Excessive Bandwidth Use: No
Evasive: No
Risk Level: 4 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: Collaboration
Technology: Browser-Based This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 5-30-11 NFS.
Description: Network File System is a protocol originally developed as a distributed file system which allows a computer to access files over a network as easily as if they were on its local disks. NFS is one of many protocols built on the Open Network Computing Remote Procedure Call system.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 1.4 Gig (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 15
Standard Ports: tcp/2049, udp/2049
Capable of File Transfer: Yes
Used by Malware: No
Excessive Bandwidth Use: No
Evasive: No
Risk Level: 3 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: Storage-Backup
Technology: Client-Server NewNet 66 comments: NFS is often used to backup UNIX files across a network or the Internet. This should be done via an encrypted tunnel. This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 5-23-11 Hamachi.
Description: Hamachi is a centrally-managed zero-configuration VPN freeware application capable of establishing direct links between computers that are behind NAT firewalls without requiring reconfiguration.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 9.8 Meg (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 2,609
Standard Ports: tcp/12975,10080, udp/1777
Capable of File Transfer: Yes
Used by Malware: Yes
Excessive Bandwidth Use: No
Evasive: Yes
Risk Level: 5 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: Networking
Technology: Encrypted-Tunnel NewNet 66 comments: Hamachi presents considerable risk to K12 networks as the traffic is encrypted and may allow users to bypass content filters and certainly school AUPs. The application does not use standard ports. By default most firewalls should have the ports Hamachi uses blocked in out bound policies. This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 5-16-11 Stagevu.
Description: Stagevu is a video sharing site for watching and sharing video in DivX format.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 2.1 Gig (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 804
Standard Ports: tcp/80
Capable of File Transfer: Yes
Used by Malware: No
Excessive Bandwidth Use: Yes
Evasive: No
Risk Level: 3 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: Media
Technology: Photo-Video NewNet 66 comments: Stagevu being a video sharing site can present security risks and consume valuable bandwidth. Video sharing is becoming more popular and causing schools to use more Internet bandwidth. This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 5-9-11 youku.
Description: Youku, literally meaning "excellent and cool", is a video sharing site based in the People's Republic of China.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 121 Meg (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 53
Standard Ports: tcp/80
Capable of File Transfer: Yes
Used by Malware: Yes
Excessive Bandwidth Use: Yes
Evasive: No
Risk Level: 5 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: Media
Technology: Photo-Video NewNet 66 comments: Youku being a video sharing site can present security risks and consume valuable bandwidth. While traffic to this site is not high at this time that will likely change as users become aware of the site. This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 5-2-11 Google App Engine.
Description: Google App Engine is a platform for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers. It was first released as a beta version in April 2008. Google App Engine is cloud computing technology. It virtualizes applications across multiple servers and data centers. Other cloud-based platforms include offerings such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft's Azure Services Platform. Google App Engine is free up to a certain level of used resources. Fees are charged for additional storage, bandwidth, or CPU cycles required by the application.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 925 Meg (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 29,863
Standard Ports: tcp/80
Capable of File Transfer: Yes
Used by Malware: No
Excessive Bandwidth Use: No
Evasive: No
Risk Level: 3 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: General-Internet
Technology: Internet-Utility NewNet 66 comments: Google App Engine is one of many useful applications offered by Google. It is not a threat vector at this time but can consume valuable bandwidth if used in quantity. This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 4-18-11 TeamViewer.
Description: Remote Control of PCs over the Internet. Instantly take control over a computer anywhere on the Internet, even through firewalls. Screen sharing, file transfer and chat.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 65.3 Gig (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 7,757
Standard Ports: tcp/dynamic, udp/dynamic
Capable of File Transfer: Yes
Used by Malware: No
Excessive Bandwidth Use: No
Evasive: Yes
Risk Level: 3 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: No
Category: Networking
Technology: Remote-Access NewNet 66 comments: TeamViewer, like any other remote access tool, should be used with caution. Steps should be taken to insure it is used responsibly. This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 4-18-11 Zynga-Games.
Description: This application can be used to identify and control the browser-based games created by Zynga that are available as widgets on social networking sites such as Facebook, Yahoo, and MySpace, as apps on iOS and Android mobile devices, and as independent web properties.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 4.6 Gig (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 70,867
Standard Ports: tcp/80,443
Capable of File Transfer: No
Used by Malware: Yes
Excessive Bandwidth Use: Yes
Evasive: No
Risk Level: 2 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: Media
Technology: Gaming NewNet 66 comments: Zynga Games being availabel via "Widgets" on social networking sites presents some security risk. These games are cabable of consuming valuable bandwidth so allowing this application during student testing can present problems. This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 4-11-11 Yahoo-im-base.
Description: Yahoo! Messenger is a popular advertisement-supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic ""Yahoo! ID"" which also allows access to other Yahoo! services, such as Yahoo! Mail, where users can be automatically notified when they receive new email. Yahoo! also offers PC-PC, PC-Phone and Phone-to-PC service, file transfers, webcam hosting, text messaging service, and chat rooms in various categories.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 546 MB (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 171,517
Standard Ports: tcp/80,5050,5101
Capable of File Transfer: No
Used by Malware: Yes
Excessive Bandwidth Use: No
Evasive: Yes
Risk Level: 4 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: Collaboration
Technology: Client-Server NewNet 66 comments: Instant messaging poses significant threats to school districts. It is well known the bad guys use IM to gain access to workstations and networks. If a school uses IM, then they should choose to deploy it on the local network or use their service provider's solution if one is available. This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 3-28-11 Apple-Appstore.
Description: Apple's App Store for Mac and iTunes Store for iOS devices (iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad) allow users to browse, search, download, and update apps that were developed with the iOS SDK or Mac SDK and published through Apple. The Mac App Store is available as a Mac OS X software update.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 21.9 Gig (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 19.632
Standard Ports: tcp/80,443,dynamic
Capable of File Transfer: Yes
Used by Malware: No
Excessive Bandwidth Use: No
Evasive: Yes
Risk Level: 4 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: General-Internet
Technology: Internet-Utility NewNet 66 comments: The Apple App Store is a great place to get new applications for most apple devices like iPad and iPhone. However, school districts need to be careful. If students are allowed to access the App Store via their iPads, iTouches, etc. on the school's wireless network they can download free applications that will allow social networking sites. This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 4-4-11 SSH (secure shell).
Description: Secure Shell is a set of standards and an associated network protocol that allows establishing a secure channel between a local and a remote computer.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 379 MB (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 82,059
Standard Ports: tcp/22
Capable of File Transfer: Yes
Used by Malware: Yes
Excessive Bandwidth Use: No
Evasive: No
Risk Level: 4 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: Networking
Technology: Encrypted-Tunnel NewNet 66 comments: SSH-2 is the secure way to communicate with routers switches and other network devices. The bad guys use SSH in attempts to gain access to school networks so allowing this application can put your network at risk. This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 3-21-11 Fileserve.
Description: Fileserver is a free file-hosting, online storage, and file-sharing service.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 9.3 Gig (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 366
Standard Ports: tcp/80,20,21,dynamic
Capable of File Transfer: Yes
Used by Malware: Yes
Excessive Bandwidth Use: Yes
Evasive: Yes
Risk Level: 4 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: General-Internet
Technology: File-sharing NewNet 66 comments: Fileserve is a great way to store files on line or "in the cloud" so to speak. However, it is important to remember this application can use port 80 (http) for transfering files which is not secure. Additionally Fileserve is capable of transfering Malware, consuming valuable bandwidth, and has known vulnerabilities. Use of this application should be done after school hours to avoid high bandwidth consumption. This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 3-14-11 qqlive.
Description: QQLive is P2PTV software and a service provided by Tencent Corporation of China. It is one of mostly installed and used P2PTV software and service in China. QQ is the brand of Instant Messaging application of Tencent, it occupies 60% percent of the IM Market in China. Because QQ is nearly monopoly in China, QQLive can market itself with the branding help of QQ. QQLive is a separate download. It provides more than 100 TV channels, mostly mainland China channels.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 2.9 Gig (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 4,534
Standard Ports: tcp/80,443, udp/80,443,1863,1873,8000
Capable of File Transfer: Yes
Used by Malware: No
Excessive Bandwidth Use: Yes
Evasive: Yes
Risk Level: 4 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: No
Category: General-Internet
Technology: File-sharing NewNet 66 comments: Since QQ is a P2P application that alone presents possible exploits by virtue of being classified as P2P. Through in the fact that is provides more than 100 TV channels to view makes this application possible of consuming valuable bandwidth. This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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| Week of 2-28-11 RuneScape.
Description:RuneScape is a fantasy multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released in January 2001 by Andrew and Paul Gower, and developed and published by Jagex Games Studio. It is a graphical browser game implemented on the client-side in Java, and incorporates 3D rendering. The game has approximately 10 million active accounts, over 130 million registered accounts, and is recognised by the Guinness World Records as the world's most popular free MMORPG.
Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 3.9 Gig (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 4,450
Standard Ports: tcp/443,80,43594
Capable of File Transfer: No
Used by Malware: No
Excessive Bandwidth Use: Yes
Evasive: Yes
Risk Level: 1 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: No
Category: Media
Technology: Gaming NewNet 66 comments: Risks associated with RuneScape are minimal. Bandwidth usage however, can certainly become an issue if the game is played during school hours. This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.
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