Anti-Piracy Agreement ACTA Is Falling Apart in Europe “Bulgaria won’t be ratifying the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) any time soon. On Tuesday, Bulgaria followed some of its European neighbors, including Germany and Poland, in halting approval of the controversial intellectual property treaty. Bulgaria will “practically stop its participation” until it sees a clear and unified…
READ MORECIA Website Down, Anonymous Taking Credit “Anonymous, continuing an unusually active run of activity, took credit for bringing down the Central Intelligence Agency’s website Friday afternoon. As of 3:50 p.m. ET, the site remains inaccessible. “CIA TANGO DOWN: cia.gov,” reads a tweet from an Anonymous-affiliated account. The CIA takedown is only the latest digital assault…
READ MOREMicrosoft Store hacked in India “Frequenters of India’s online Microsoft Store were briefly greeted with the suspicious visage of a Guy Fawkes mask this morning, following a hack that compromised the site’s user database. According to WPSauce, Microsoft Store India’s landing page was briefly taken over by a hacker group called Evil Shadow Team, who,…
READ MORERIP Kodak digital cameras “It’s no secret that times are tough – which is why the father of the hand-held camera, Kodak, has announced that it will no longer be producing compact cameras, digital picture frames or camcorders after the first half of this year, Reuters reports. After Kodak filed for bankruptcy last month, we…
READ MOREIs BitTorrent Done? Major Torrent Sites Consider Shutting Down “News of raids, arrests, seizures, extraditions and jail time in the file-sharing world hasn’t gone unnoticed by the operators of major BitTorrent sites. Yesterday, the owners of BTjunkie decided to close their site because the stress became too much, and there are others who consider doing…
READ MOREAnonymous Reacts to Megaupload Takedown With “Largest Attack Ever” “Hacker group Anonymous isn’t happy about the takedown of file-sharing site Megaupload, and as a result, it’s targeting some big companies and government agencies. Earlier this afternoon, interspersed with a stream of anti-SOPA and PIPA tweets, the main Anonymous Twitter account declared, “The government takes down…
READ MORE5 of the best online SOPA/PIPA protests “Why’s the internet broken? Well, the US government – under pressure from the music and film industries – has drafted a couple of laws to discourage piracy. One is SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and the other is PIPA (Protect IP Act). Between them, these laws could…
READ MOREVirgin Media suffers blackout last night “After having just announced that it would be doubling many of its customers speeds Virgin then hit technical difficulties with an outage Virgin has confirmed that last night a percentage of Virgin Media customers were on the receiving end of a technical fault which saw a huge blackout of…
READ MOREWikipedia Will Go Dark On January 18 To Protest SOPA And PIPA “Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales wanted to send a “big message” to the U.S. government regarding the two heinous internet censorship bills currently being considered, and after a brief period of debate the world’s encyclopedia will soon do just that. The Wikipedia founder announced on…
READ MOREMassive DNS poisoning attacks in Brazil “In the past few days several Brazilian ISPs have fallen victim to a series of DNS cache poisoning attacks. These attacks see users being redirected to install malware before connecting to popular sites. Some incidents have also featured attacks on network devices, where routers or modems are compromised remotely….
READ MOREDuqu Virus Tied to Microsoft Windows Bug “Hackers have used a security flaw in Microsoft’s Windows operating system to infect computers with the the Duqu virus, Microsoft has admitted. “We are working diligently to address this issue and will release a security update for customers,” Microsoft said in a statement. The Duqu virus, which was…
READ MORETrojan targets Mac’s built-in security defences “Malware coders have created a Mac-specific Trojan that is designed to attack anti-malware defences built into Apple’s Mac OS X operating system. The Flashback.C trojan disables the automatic update component of XProtect, OS X’s anti-malware application, net security firm F-Secure reports. By wiping out files, the malware prevents future…
READ MOREMass ASP.NET attack causes websites to turn on visitors “An infection that causes poorly configured websites to silently bombard visitors with malware attacks has hit almost 614,000 webpages, Google searches show. The mass infection, which redirects users to a site exploiting old versions of Oracle’s Java, Adobe’s Flash player and various browsers, was first disclosed…
READ MORERIM Restores BlackBerry Service After Largest Outage “Rest easy BlackBerry users, your service is back. So said RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis in yet another BlackBerry outage conference call update. Lazaridis appeared with co-CEO Jim Balsillie and CTO David Yach. Lazaridis began by apologizing again and then announced, “We have now restored full services.” RIM’s BlackBerry…
READ MOREiOS 5 release hit by issues due to demand “Apple struggles to meet iOS 5 download demand as ‘hundreds of thousands’ of iPhone, iPad and iPod users are greeted by an Error 3200 message and continued delays Apple fans were hit with an iOS 5 error 3200 message today as they attempted to download the…
READ MOREBlackBerry blackout: Day three “DISRUPTION to BlackBerry services entered a third day today with fed-up users reporting further problems. BlackBerry’s maker Research in Motion (RIM) said in a statement last night service problems, which started on Monday, were due to a “core switch failure” within its infrastructure and assured users it was working to clear…
READ MORENew PlayStation security breach: 93,000 accounts hit “Sony reveals that thousands of accounts were hacked between Friday 7 October and Monday 10 October. Accounts have been frozen, but is this the start of another major problem for the Japanese giant? Sony has confirmed that its PlayStation Network (PSN) and Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) services have…
READ MOREUK server failure sends BlackBerry devices offline in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (update: restored) “If there’s one thing RIM doesn’t need right now, it’s another BlackBerry outage. Well, are you sitting down? RIM UK is currently investigating issues affecting “some users in EMEA” — that’s Europe, Middle East and Africa, for the acronym-disinclined….
READ MOREDigiNotar SSL certificate hack amounts to cyberwar, says expert Make sure everyone updates windows updates/mac updates to get new correct certificates… “The Dutch government says hackers who broke into a web security firm in the Netherlands last month issued hundreds of bogus security certificates that could be used on websites including the CIA and Israel’s…
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