It’s been a long time coming but on Tuesday Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics finally opened their billion-dollar patent fight in a California court. Both companies claim the other infringed their intellectual property. According to this report from CIO.com, Apple painted itself as a trailblazing company that has seen its inventions stolen by a latecomer. Samsung claimed [...]
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2012DNS Changer and the malware menace
Sunday, July 15th, 2012‘Malware Monday’ was a culmination of security threats triggered last year Browsing the Internet involves a certain degree of risk. The sharp increase in commercial transactions online has also increased the risk of losing confidential information such as passwords and bank account PIN numbers. The latest attack on users, christened ‘Malware Monday’, has bas been [...]
How the DNSChanger malware works
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012IDG News Service – Monday, 9 July, was supposed to be ‘Internet Doomsday’ when the US’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was to shut down servers associated with the DNSChanger malware. As a result, computers infected with this threat were to be cut off from the Internet. According to an IDG report, the FBI estimated [...]
The Internet Apocalypse That Wasn’t
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012So much for the Internet apocalypse. Several security experts and media reports predicted that Monday, July 9, would be remembered as the day millions lost their Internet connections — and possibly their livelihoods. Those concerns did not play out. At 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation pulled the plug on [...]
Dutch court shuts down WordPress based Pirate Bay proxy
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012Website censorship: be careful what you wish for Pirate Bay to be blocked in the UK, court rules Blocking Pirate Bay obviously working as traffic shoots up An anti-censorship WordPress plugin which also acts as a proxy server for the Pirate Bay has been shut down following a court order on Friday. RePress, a plugin [...]
Dutch court shuts down WordPress based Pirate Bay proxy
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012Website censorship: be careful what you wish for Pirate Bay to be blocked in the UK, court rules Blocking Pirate Bay obviously working as traffic shoots up An anti-censorship WordPress plugin which also acts as a proxy server for the Pirate Bay has been shut down following a court order on Friday. RePress, a plugin [...]
ISPs Report Minimal DNSChanger Impact
Monday, July 9th, 2012After all the chatter about the DNSChanger Trojan knocking hundreds of thousands of Web users offline today, major U.S. ISPs confirmed this afternoon that it has thus far been much ado about nothing. Internet providers like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, and more all said they saw minimal impact from DNSChanger, the servers for which [...]
DNSChanger Deadline; Google Promotes Marriage Equality; Facebook Kills Face.com
Monday, July 9th, 2012Didn’t have time to check out the tech headlines over the weekend? Here’s what you missed. Thousands of users whose compouters were infected with DNSChanger malware likely lost their Internet connections early this morning. The FBI pulled the plug on a network of rogue DNS servers previously used by cybercriminals to redirect users’ browsing sessions. [...]
DNSChanger Deadline is Monday. Are You Ready?
Friday, July 6th, 2012Come Monday, there will be some people who won’t be able to get on the Internet from their computers. Will you be one of them? Hopefully not. According to the latest FBI estimates from July 5, approximately 64,000 computers in the United States are expected to lose Internet access when the temporary Domain Name System [...]
$7,000 Fine for Sharing “WordPress For Dummies” on BitTorrent
Thursday, July 5th, 2012$7,000 Fine for Sharing “WordPress For Dummies” on BitTorrent Ernesto July 2, 2012 108 wiley Print A New York federal court has ordered a rare default judgment in favor of John Wiley Sons, one of the world’s largest book publishers. Robert Carpenter from Poughkeepsie, New York, has been ordered to pay the publisher $7,000 in [...]
Man fined $7,000 for sharing ‘WordPress for Dummies’ via BitTorrent
Thursday, July 5th, 2012Robert Carpenter of Poughkeepsie, New York has been ordered to pay $7,000 in damages for sharing a copy of “WordPress All-in-One For Dummies” on BitTorrent. Carpenter was part of a mass filing by publisher John Wiley Sons last October that included 27 John Does allegedly caught sharing “For Dummies” books via BiTorrent. According to TorrentFreak, [...]
$7K Fine for Sharing "WordPress For Dummies" on BitTorrent
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012$7K Fine for Sharing “WordPress For Dummies” on BitTorrent Bad news: You’ve been fined $7,000 for sharing a “for Dummies” book on BitTorrent. The good news: The maximum fine was $150,000. A New York federal court has ordered a rare default judgment in favor of John Wiley Sons, one of the world’s largest book publishers. [...]
BBB warns of DNS Changer Virus
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012Tuesday, July 03, 2012 12:00 AM | Printer friendly version | E-mail to a friend | Comments Updated Tuesday, July 03, 2012 9:32 AM body .images_wrapper{margin-top: 10px;} .photo_pictopia, a.photo_pictopia{color: blue; display: inline; float: left; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: bold; padding-left: 5px;} ]]> Internet access dominates our lives. People use the Internet for work, for school, to [...]
Secure64 DNS Products Offer ‘Genetic Diversity’ For More Secure DNS Infrastructure
Thursday, June 28th, 2012Obamacare’s Insurance Rule Is Upheld by Supreme CourtCNBC The Supreme Court, in a landmark ruling Thursday, upheld the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President … Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/secure64-dns-products-offer-genetic-115000940.html
Secure64 DNS Products Offer ‘Genetic Diversity’ For More Secure DNS Infrastructure
Thursday, June 28th, 2012Obamacare’s Insurance Rule Is Upheld by Supreme CourtCNBC The Supreme Court, in a landmark ruling Thursday, upheld the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President … Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/secure64-dns-products-offer-genetic-115000940.html
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DNS Changer: No Harm, No Foul, Thanks to Big Brother
Thursday, July 12th, 2012NEW YORK (TheStreet) — It seems for as much as people love the idea of guardian angels and the movie stories of someone watching and protecting them from danger, these same people also clamor over their rights to privacy. They want it both ways. Except sometimes they forget that freedom comes at a cost. If [...]