Downloading from illegal sources has increased instead of decreased six months after a court ordered ISPs in the Netherlands to block access to The Pirate Bay, according to research from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Tilburg ...
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has invited Claire Perry, the Devizes MP who is Prime Minister David Cameron's 'advisor on childhood' to dinner - so that he can tell her how wrong her plan for internet web filtering is. Perry is the driving ...
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File-sharing website The Pirate Bay has launched a browser that it claims will circumvent blocks from internet service providers (ISPs) on its site and other similar webpages. The browser, dubbed PirateBrowser, was launched as a 'gift' ...
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The web porn filter praised by David Cameron recently is operated by Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications firm that politicians in the UK and US have voiced concerns about. According to the BBC, UK-based employees of Huawei have the ...
The Brazilian government has formally asked the U.S. government for clarification regarding the alleged large-scale interception of electronic communications of Brazilian citizens by the U.S. National Security Agency. The NSA intercepts ...
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The Ministry of Shipping has issued an official order that the Cabotage restrictions for transshipment of exim containers at the International Container Transshipment Terminal, Vallarpadam may be relaxed under Section 407 (3) of the ...
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Web content filtering company Netsweeper has supplied its products to Pakistan, even as some top IT companies have refused to supply gear for a controversial filtering project, a Canadian research group has disclosed. The new report ...
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With more than a billion monthly active users, it's easy to imagine that most of the data travelling over Facebook's networks is delivering photos, status updates and "likes" to its end users, but that's far from the case. The social ...
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Data encryption could help enterprises protect their sensitive information against mass surveillance by governments, as well as guard against unauthorized access by ill-intended third parties, but the correct implementation and use of data ...
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Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that could be related have in the past few days slammed the DNS servers of at least three providers of domain name management and DNS hosting services. DNSimple, easyDNS and TPP Wholesale all ...
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With an eye on next year's European elections, Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes on Thursday called on the European Parliament to support her longstanding plans to end roaming charges and guarantee net neutrality. Though contrary ...
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A proposal in Taiwan to enforce copyright laws by blocking access to top piracy sites is facing concerns that the measures could impinge on Internet freedoms on the island. The intellectual property office of Taiwan's Ministry of Economic ...
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The axing of Stephen Conroy's other pet project, the controversial mandatory internet filtering scheme, will save the government more than $4 million. According to Budget 2013 papers, the government will achieve savings of $4.5m over ...
Cybercriminals increasingly hack into shared Web hosting servers in order to use the domains hosted on them in large phishing campaigns, according to a report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Forty-seven percent of all ...
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Cyber criminals increasingly hack into shared Web hosting servers in order to use the domains hosted on them in large phishing campaigns, according to a report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Forty-seven percent of all ...
Tags: Hackers, Web Hosting Servers