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The death of online piracy: the U.S. government wants it and copyright holders want it, but at what cost? As we've seen from SOPA and PIPA, the government would be willing to completely cripple the Internet to see to the death of online piracy; and now, the shuttering of MegaUpload by the U.S. government (as a result of pressure from copyright holders) has caused waves in the file-sharing business; a business that — amongst perfectly legal profits — is rife with HUGE profits that come ...

At a behind-closed-doors meeting facilitated by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport, copyright holders have handed out a list of demands to Google, Bing and Yahoo. To curb the growing piracy problem, Hollywood and the major music labels want the search engines to de-list popular filesharing sites such as The Pirate Bay, and give higher ranking to authorized sites. It's no secret that the entertainment industries believe search engines are not delivering enough when it comes to...

After years of touting itself as a champion of free expression on the Internet, Twitter Inc. on Friday touched off a torrent of criticism after it announced it can now remove messages from the online service within specific countries if asked to do so. A backlash from Twitter users and free-speech advocates came one day after the micro-blogging service announced the change, noting that it is bound to enter "countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of exp...

Cloud security vendor Zscaler has launched a new free-to-use online service called Zulu that can assess the security risk associated with URLs by analyzing the content they point to, as well as the reputation of their corresponding domain names and IP addresses. There are several free URL scanning services available online and all of them are useful in their own right. While conceptually similar to other such scanners, Zulu does have a few features that makes it stand out. For example, Zulu...

In our everyday world, we sometimes make use of thin clients, which don't have a lot of functionality but are easy to maintain, as their functionality is based on data they receive from remote servers. Malware authors have adopted a similar technique, in which malware is able to download executable code without actually downloading an executable image. We're talking about malware that isn't a typical trojan downloader. The typical routine for trojan downloaders is that the downlo...

Illegal content should be forcibly demoted in web searches, a group of UK rights holders has suggested. The organisations argued that search sites were "overwhelmingly" directing users to illegal content. The proposal - developed as part of government-organised talks - was made public by critics of the plans following a Freedom of Information request. The Open Rights Group (ORG) said the report was "dangerous" and "Sopa-like". Campaigner Peter Bradwel...

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Symantec: Stop using pcAnywhere, right now _ Naked Security http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/01/25/symantec-stop-pcanywhere/ Symantec has admitted that blueprints for current versions of its pcAnywhere software were stolen in 2006 and that all users are at risk of attack and should pull the plug. That includes users of both current and past iterations as well as those bundled with Altiris and the pcAnywhere Thin Host packaged with backup and security products. --CF

Version 11.61 of Opera has been released. According to its developers, the maintenance update fixes bugs found in the existing builds and closes two security holes in the web browser. Opera 11.61 addresses a "high" severity cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that could be exploited by an attacker to bypass the same origin policy. http://www.h-online....ty-1421248.html

Any day now, the Government of Ireland will sign a statutory instrument that will give courts the power to grant orders to ISPs and other entities suspected of infringing copyright. This will be done at the stroke of a minister's pen and without any parliamentary debate. Forces of protest are being assembled in the form of an online petition at Stop SOPA Ireland. In addition, legal blogger TJ McIntyre has penned a very useful FAQ on the matter. Effectively, despite a decision by t...