Topic: WEB - on April 21, 2008 at 1:19:00 PM CEST
Europe moves against Internet's 'virtual training camps'
Europe's interior ministers have announced a further crack-down on Internet terrorism, adding three new offences - terrorist propaganda, recruitment and training - to EU law. The move takes the form of an amendment to the 2002 Framework Decision on combating terrorism, and is intended to further harmonise the way terrorist offences are tackled and punished across Europe.
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Topic: WEB - on April 17, 2008 at 11:56:00 AM CEST
Pirate Bay to sue music industry
The Pirate Bay is threatening to seek damages from music industry lobby group The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) for blocking access to its website.
In February the IFPI went to court to get Danish ISP Tele2 to block access to the website accusing it of aiding and abetting copyright infringement.
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Topic: WEB - on April 17, 2008 at 11:56:00 AM CEST
Top P2P Applications: 1.6 Million PCs Rank Them
"We have a powder keg of data here" I told Digital Music News publisher Paul Resnikoff as I completed this quarter's Digital Media Desktop Report. The report, a coordinated effort between Big Champagne, PC Pitstop and Digital Music News, tracks the global installation base for leading digital music applications including P2P clients, ecommerce clients, and jukebox applications. More than 100,000 unique PCs are polled for this data each month and more than 1.5 million unique PCs are polled over a given year. Over the past 12 months we analyzed data from 1,661,688 machines
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Topic: WEB - on April 17, 2008 at 11:54:00 AM CEST
The Pirate Bay Launches Uncensored Blogging Service
In their ever continuing battle to free the Internet, The Pirate Bay has now launched an uncensored blogging service, called Baywords. The service is intended to be a safe haven for bloggers who want to be able to write whatever they want, without being afraid to get shut down by their blog host.
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Topic: WEB - on April 10, 2008 at 12:26:00 PM CEST
Internet Black Holes
Hubble is a system that operates continuously to find persistent Internet black holes as they occur. Hubble has operated continuously since September 17, 2007. During that time, it identified 881,090 black holes and reachability problems. In the most recent quarter-hourly round, completed at 04:40 PDT, 04/09/2008, Hubble issued 46,846 traceroutes to 1,815 prefixes it identified as likely to be experiencing problems (of 78,772 total prefixes monitored by the system). Of these, it found 195 prefixes to be unreachable from all its vantage points and 139 to be reachable from some vantage points and not others
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Topic: WEB - on April 8, 2008 at 11:19:00 AM CEST
Europe to Tie the Hands of Google and Yahoo
Search engines should delete personal data held about their users within six months, a European Commission advisory body on data protection has said.
The recommendation is likely to be accepted by the European Commission and could lead to a clash with search giants like Google, Yahoo and MSN.
Google and Yahoo anonymise user data after 18 months, while MSN does the same after 13 months.
bbc.co.uk arstechnica.comOpinion on data protection issues related to search engines [pdf]
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Topic: WEB - on April 5, 2008 at 11:08:00 AM CEST
US man gets $2.6m for domain name
A US man has sold the domain name pizza.com for $2.6m (£1.3m) - after maintaining the site for just $20 a year since 1994.
Chris Clark, 43, accepted the offer from an anonymous bidder after a week-long online auction.
"It's crazy, it's just crazy," Mr Clark, who lives in North Potomac, Maryland, was quoted as saying by the Baltimore Sun newspaper.
"It will make a significant difference in my life, for sure," he added.
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Topic: WEB - on March 27, 2008 at 1:48:00 PM CET
Apple forbids Windows users from installing Safari for Windows
n using Apple Software Update to slip his Safari browser onto millions of Windows PCs, Steve Jobs didn't just undermine "the security of the whole Web". He's made a mockery of end user licensing agreements.
As spotted by our Italian friends at setteB.IT, Apple's Safari license says that users are permitted to install the browser on no more than "a single Apple-labeled computer at a time." This means that if you install Safari for Windows on a Windows PC, you're violating the license.
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Topic: WEB - on March 20, 2008 at 11:50:00 AM CET
Botnet farmers play the international exchange game
Spyware authors are prepared to pay botnet farmers or webmasters much more for infecting PCs in the UK or Australia than machines in continental Europe.
Selling "installs" is a common practice in the cyber-underworld, the most notable example being in 2005 when Jeanson Ancheta was arrested for building a 400,000-strong botnet and installing adware from 180 solutions for a fee of $60,000. Cybercriminals have since moved on to installing spyware onto compromised machines.
Zombie machines infected with Trojan horse malware can be used to relay spam or launch denial of service attacks. Compromised machines can be also be pointed to websites from which additional items of malware can be downloaded. The practice is normally used to update Trojan code, but it also creates a means for cybercrooks to make a "nice little earner".
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Topic: WEB - on March 19, 2008 at 11:26:00 AM CET
Jott
Jott is unbelievably cool. I’m amazed Google has not bought this one. I only wish I were organized to start really using it, but I do find it useful from time to time when I am driving and think of something or remember something I forgot to add to a calendar or list somewhere.
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Topic: WEB - on March 17, 2008 at 10:00:00 AM CET
Web creator rejects net tracking
The creator of the web has said consumers need to be protected against systems which can track their activity on the internet.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee told BBC News he would change his internet provider if it introduced such a system.
Plans by leading internet providers to use Phorm, a company which tracks web activity to create personalised adverts, have sparked controversy.
Sir Tim said he did not want his ISP to track which websites he visited.
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Topic: WEB - on March 16, 2008 at 2:23:00 PM CET
Trade in web names worth millions
Neil Stanley goes to bed each night knowing he will wake up a little richer. All over the world, the clicks of computer mice are depositing a few more pounds into his account. His secret is that he was smart enough to ask: what's in a name?
Stanley is a trader in domain names, the addresses of websites which commonly follow 'www' and end with '.com' or '.co.uk'. Once a banker at Goldman Sachs, he now has a different portfolio of lucrative investments including bridalfashion.co.uk, onlinecareers.co.uk, schoolguide.co.uk, sendingflowers.co.uk and impotency.co.uk.
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