In a pretty eventful halfweek, which saw the passage of the IPRED law in Sweden, a resulting drop in internet traffic to an increased demand for anonymizers, the Police have began raiding suspected fil sharers. This raid was reportedly a part of an international sting operation that involved raids in Britian, Belgium, Netherlands and Spain.
Following the passage of the IPRED law in Sweden a few days ago, there’s been an increased demand for anonymizing services. The Pirate Bay has for instance started its own anonymizing service called IPREDator (you get the drift). Other anonymizers are also offering IPRED protection.
On April 1 Sweden passed the EU directive called IPRED (Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive) into law. That same day, internet traffic dropped by 30% according The Local, an online newspaper. The law will allow courts to order ISPs to hand over information that identify suspected illegal file sharers. The belief is that commercial infractions of intellectual property law within the EU will eventually be criminalised.
A woman from Gothenburg, Sweden logs into her internet bank to pay some bills only to find more than $1 BILLION (yes you read right) in her account - a local news website reports.
When I posted the earlier article about cyber-snooping fears, I was wondering how one could use a potentially compromised OS more safely and came across Polippix.
Polippix is a bootable CD created in Denmark as protest for what the creators believed is a far-reaching government snoop in the guise of fight against terror.
Interested? Included on the [...]
Chinese authorities are reportedly mandating that a Chinese developed OS called Red Flag Linux be installed in Internet cafes in a city in southern China. The action is meant to crack down on piracy, though some are not buying it, suspecting it is part of a scheme to snoop on and stop undesirable activities - [...]
Keep your belt and shoes on, move swiftly through airport security carrying your hand luggage (carry-on cases) all in some 30 seconds!
That is the aim for a new so-called “paradigm shifting” security technology aimed at boosting airport security without the long waiting lines, CNN reports. But there is a price. You will be scanned for [...]
TrendMicro reports having found what could be a rootkit in an enterprise infosecurity software. The rootkit-churning vendor is the same one that published Sony MicroVault USM-F fingerprint reader discovered last year. What other products has this vendor shipped?
