Topic: WEB - on August 28, 2007 at 9:54:00 AM CEST
TorrentSpy Cuts Off US Users, Rather Than Tracking Them
BitTorrent search engine TorrentSpy has been involved in a legal battle with the MPAA for some time now. The lawsuit took a slightly bizarre twist a few months back when a judge demanded that TorrentSpy start logging details about its users -- something the company had never done and had no plans to do. TorrentSpy claims that doing so will violate its users privacy and violate its own terms of service
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Topic: WEB - on August 23, 2007 at 1:34:00 PM CEST
Spying Goes All 2.0
While the US intelligence community has a long history of expensively botched computer systems, it does seem like they've suddenly became Web 2.0 believers. Last year we wrote about the internal Wikipedia-like offering called Intellipedia, that would let members from different agencies in the intelligence community share information more easily.
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Topic: WEB - on August 21, 2007 at 2:29:00 PM CEST
Monster attack steals user data
US job website Monster.com has suffered an online attack with the personal data of hundreds of thousands of users stolen, says a security firm.
A computer program was used to access the employers' section of website using stolen log-in credentials.
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Topic: WEB - on August 19, 2007 at 12:25:00 PM CEST
Skype Works on Software Flaw Suspected in Worldwide Outage
Problems continued yesterday for Skype, an Internet-based phone company, as it tried to patch up a software glitch that left many of its 220 million customers disconnected.
Worldwide disruption spanning Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America began on Thursday, prompting rumors on the Web about the cause of the outage, including speculation that the service had been attacked by Russian hackers, or that the failure was the result of problems caused by a recent software update.
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Topic: WEB - on August 19, 2007 at 12:23:00 PM CEST
Skype and Patriot act maybe not hackers?
Original author: Mathaba Skype Problems: Coincidence or Result of Architecture Fix for the U.S. State? Posted: 2007/08/17 From: Mathaba Is it considerable coincidence, or a sign of modifications which would inevitably be difficult to execute without significant disruption? Around 2 weeks ago the Bush administration pushed through Congress a law to bolster the government's ability to intercept electronic communications without a court order. The so-called Protect America Act, which passed both the House and Senate by wide margins just before Congress went on its August recess, allows the government to intercept the phone calls and e-mails of people in the United States who communicate with people overseas, and for the first time, allows the government to intercept communications between foreigners which are merely routed through the United States, as well as conversations of Americans traveling abroad.
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Topic: WEB - on August 19, 2007 at 12:20:00 PM CEST
Why the Skype 0day exploit is a fake
A lot of people contacted me about my post on FD. No, I have no clue of what’s really going and I can happily live believing the official reports (http://heartbeat.skype.com/) on the issue. This is the complete message I posted to FD in reply to Valery Marchuk.
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Topic: WEB - on August 19, 2007 at 12:17:00 PM CEST
Skype drop was the result of Russian hackers
The reason for yesterday's fall network Skype study Russians were burglars, told us one of the readers.
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Topic: WEB - on August 19, 2007 at 12:15:00 PM CEST
Skype Comes Back, Do You Still Trust It?
Skype was back up and running on Saturday, but the question remains if this week’s outage will have a lasting effect on the confidence people place in the service. Will anyone feel comfortable using Skype as their primary voice communications tool if a multi-day outage is possible?
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Topic: WEB - on August 19, 2007 at 12:03:00 PM CEST
VOIP TOOLBOX: 30+ VoIP Services
You can’t have failed to notice that Skype suffered major downtime this week. However, there many more VoIP service providers that enable users to make free or cheap international calls through computers, landlines or cellphones. Many of them offer social networking features plus easy embedding options in blogs and social networking sites.
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Topic: WEB - on August 17, 2007 at 11:03:00 AM CEST
Yahoo! Messenger! users! face! attack! by! video!
Yahoo Messenger users beware: Your mother was right when she told you not to chat with strangers. A newly discovered zero-day vulnerability in the widely-used chat program proves this was sound advice.
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Topic: WEB - on August 14, 2007 at 12:30:00 PM CEST
27 Years of Warez Scene Release Info Leaked in Giant Database
Usually, when a leak is made by the warez scene, it’s usually material created by someone else - a movie, music, games or software. This time the leak is of their own material. A huge pre database of 2.6 million entries has become available on the internet, containing information on warez scene releases dating back to 1980.
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Topic: WEB - on August 14, 2007 at 12:26:00 PM CEST
German sites close, as anti-hacking law arrives
Security researchers in Germany continued to pull down exploit code from their sites last week, scrambling to comply with a German law that makes illegal the distribution of software that could be used to break into computers.
The German law -- referred to as 202(c) -- went into effect on Sunday. Many experts have complained that the language of the law is very unclear, but a strict reading appears to make illegal the distribution, sale and possession of security tools which could be used to commit a crime.
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