Microsoft will not sell Windows 8 as a physical boxed product in China and instead will only distribute the OS through downloads and pre-installs on devices,in a move that could help the company drive consumers away from pirated copies of ...
Tags: Microsoft, Windows 8, China, software piracy
Swedish file sharing website, The Pirate Bay (TPB), has moved into the cloud in order to improve its services, lower costs and evade shut-down from authorities. The BitTorrent site, which had its servers raided by police in 2006, has now ...
Tags: The Pirate Bay, evade shut-down, BitTorrent site, entire infrastructure
The websites of several Swedish government agencies were knocked offline on Friday. The website failures coincided with threats by hacktivists, claiming to be members of the Anonymous collective, to launch a cyber attack against Swedish ...
Tags: Swedish government, hacktivists, Anonymous collective, cyber attack
Hack in the Box will host its 10th security conference this week in Kuala Lumpur featuring an all-star cast of hacking luminaries and a cutting-edge program. The lengthy speakers list includes John Draper aka"Captain Crunch,"who famously ...
A handful of Swedish websites remained down Friday evening there after hacking group Anonymous threatened earlier this week to attack the nation for a police raid on a hosting service that was once home to The Pirate Bay. As of 6:45 ...
Tags: Swedish websites, hacking group, Anonymous, The Pirate Bay
Current internet subscription business models are ineffective, and are holding up development of services in the UK, fibre communications firm Level 3 has told Computing. James Taylor, EMEA content service product manager at Level 3, ...
Security researchers released two tools at the Defcon security conference that can be used to crack the encryption of any PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) and WPA2-Enterprise (Wireless Protected Access) sessions that use MS-CHAPv2 ...
Tags: Microsoft, PPTP, US, Cyberwarfare
A block on file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is proving ineffective, according to data from a top UK internet service provider (ISP). In May, the UK High Court ruled that UK ISPs must block access to The Pirate Bay site – but the 11% ...
Tags: file-sharing site, internet service, network, music-playing site
Smartphones running Google's Android operating system(OS)have been hijacked by a botnet,according to a Microsoft researcher. Researcher Terry Zink said he had come across spam being sent from Yahoo e-mail servers by Android ...
Tags: Smartphones, Google's Android OS, Microsoft researcher, botnet
UK-In the far south-west of Cornwall,within a deep valley,lies a large white building and a small concrete hut-an incongruous setting for a site of historical national importance.Now forming the Porthcurno Telegraph Museum,this is the point ...
Tags: Cable&Wireless Communications, mobile phone, interactive, touch screen