Hacktivism and How It Got Here
Hacktivism isn’t found in the graffiti on defaced Web pages, in e-mail viruses bearing political screeds or in smug take-downs...
Hacktivism isn’t found in the graffiti on defaced Web pages, in e-mail viruses bearing political screeds or in smug take-downs...
The black market trade in pirated DVDs is expected to top 1 billion pounds by 2007 as organised crime moves...
Yesterday, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) released results of what it called a "worldwide" study on movie piracy through downloading. This self-serving release is obviously crafted to paint a scary picture, and the methodology isn't well explained. (By world, for instance, the MPAA means eight countries.)
A popular browser for Windows is subject to a security hole for hackers, British researchers say, but this time it's not Internet Explorer.
Nearly a quarter of Net users have illegally downloaded a film at one time or another, says the MPAA (Motion...
Microsoft's effort last week to fix a vulnerability in the Internet Explorer Web browser and end the latest series of Internet attacks doesn't address another closely related and dangerous vulnerability, according to a security specialist.
Microsoft released an emergency configuration update over the July Fourth U.S. holiday that for the first time gives Internet Explorer...
The U.S. government's Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is warning Web surfers to stop using Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser.
MSNBC.Com – Unthinkable: How the Internet could become a tool of corporate and government power, based on updates now in...
Eccentric software developer Dave Winer has removed access to 3,000 weblogs hosted by the company he founded Userland at weblogs.com, without giving any prior notice. Bloggers have been told that if they ask nicely, they may have their data back next month. Winer blamed a computer for his decision. This strange story grows stranger, however. Winer made the announcement after the fact, in a rare audio mumble: third parties had to provide their own transcriptions. The change didn't affect friends and paid subscribers, and Winer has admitted he's continuing in the hosting business - he's simply moving locations. "The DNS service provider just can't handle the number of different domains under weblogs.com," said Winer. "We had to put them all in one place, and they had to be on one of my servers. Lawrence and I moved the sites over, and when we put the sites on the machine the performance of the machine became incredibly bad." Network administrators tell us his excuse holds little water. Netcraft reports that Weblogs.com is running Windows 2000 - not many people's first choice for BIND - but even so, it should be able to cope with what is a trivial load. "Either his hardware can't cope with the traffic, or his Win2K has some kind of resource limitation issue, or he's got something mis-configured," a sysadmin told us.