Topic: WEB - on October 24, 2007 at 12:16:00 PM CEST
Nasty PDF exploit runs wild
A day after Adobe patched a serious security hole in its Reader and Acrobat programs, miscreants are flooding email inboxes with malware-tainted PDF files that try to remotely hijack vulnerable computers.
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Topic: WEB - on October 24, 2007 at 12:12:00 PM CEST
Who's More Ethical: TorrentSpy Or The MPAA?
Wired has an interview with Robert Anderson, the guy who hacked into TorrentSpy's servers and handed over a bunch of internal TorrentSpy info to the MPAA. From the interview, it's quite clear that the MPAA knew that it was getting access to content that had not been legally obtained, but it still pushed Anderson for more such info (including asking him if he could obtain similar info about The Pirate Bay).
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Topic: WEB - on October 24, 2007 at 12:10:00 PM CEST
GigaNews, Usenet Server Dump Anonymous Reference
It seems that the music industry's campaign against Usenet.com has put the spook in a few Usenet providers. Last week, nearly a dozen major record labels, including Artista, Sony-BMG, Atlantic and Elektra, filed a complaint in Federal Court against Usenet.com seeking financial damages as a result of copyright infringement. Although lawsuits against Usenet providers are nothing new, the frequency in which they occur typically prompts a flurry of attention.
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Topic: WEB - on October 24, 2007 at 12:06:00 PM CEST
OiNK Investigation Seeks Identities and Activities of Users
OiNK, one of the world’s most popular trackers has been shutdown. Now, in the hours immediately following the closure, the site is responding but displaying an ominous message indicating an investigation into the site’s users has begun.
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Topic: WEB - on October 24, 2007 at 11:46:00 AM CEST
Oink-Memorial-Weblog
While the void on OiNK.CD became an ever-present reminder of unspeakable loss, it also opened a space of deep courage, compassion and triumph of human spirit.
The Oink Memorial & Museum will pay tribute to those who were affected in the attack of October 23 and reflect the awe-inspiring compassion shown in the aftermath.
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Topic: WEB - on October 24, 2007 at 11:39:00 AM CEST
Oink Hostingprovider loses 30,000 euro's
The website's 30,000 euro servers, which were based not in Amsterdam but Roosendaal, The Netherlands, were confiscated this morning by dutch police.
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Topic: WEB - on October 23, 2007 at 11:16:00 PM CEST
OiNK Website Shutdown
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Topic: WEB - on October 23, 2007 at 10:58:00 PM CEST
Pigs* Bust OiNK
British and Dutch police have shut down a "widely-used" source of illegally-downloaded music.
A flat on Teesside and several properties in Amsterdam were raided as part of an Interpol investigation into the members-only website OiNK.
The UK-run site has leaked 60 major pre-release albums this year alone, said the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
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Topic: WEB - on October 22, 2007 at 5:13:00 PM CEST
Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases, saying they are put off by restrictions these companies want to place on the new digital collections.
Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases, saying they are put off by restrictions these companies want to place on the new digital collections.
The research libraries, including a large consortium in the Boston area, are instead signing on with the Open Content Alliance, a nonprofit effort aimed at making their materials broadly available.
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Topic: WEB - on October 22, 2007 at 11:35:00 AM CEST
I Was a Hacker for the MPAA
Promises of Hollywood fame and fortune persuaded a young hacker to betray former associates in the BitTorrent scene to Tinseltown's anti-piracy lobby, according to the hacker.
In an exclusive interview with Wired News, gun-for-hire hacker Robert Anderson tells for the first time how the Motion Picture Association of America promised him money and power if he provided confidential information on TorrentSpy, a popular BitTorrent search site.
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Topic: WEB - on October 19, 2007 at 12:34:00 PM CEST
Internet Cookies/Internet... Thing
Xeni talks to Max Weinstein of stopbadware.org about Cookie Crumbles, a contest he's co-sponsoring with the Berkman Center at Harvard University.
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Topic: WEB - on October 19, 2007 at 12:26:00 PM CEST
Big media gangs up on pirates, file sharers - Media companies in copyright pact, Google absent
A large group of media giants is poised to announce a new system for copyrighting content on t'internet.
The US edition of the Wall Street Journal reports CBS, Microsoft, News Corp's Fox and MySpace units, NBC, Viacom, and Walt Disney are all part of the group.
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