Category Archives: Security

The Pirate Bay , the world’s most famous torrent file sharing website , has announced to bypass any controls to block its access or shut it down by using newer technologies. This act of defiance on part of The Pirate … Continue reading →

A New Zealand court has granted bail to Kim Dotcom , the founder of Megaupload , after concluding that any funds he may use for fleeing New Zealand have been seized by the law enforcement authorities already . He was … Continue reading →

The notorious and hugely popular torrent file sharing site , The Pirate Bay , has inched towards a complete blockage in UK after High Court ruled today that it was involved in large scale copyright infringement. Music companies want the … Continue reading →

Copyright offenders in France will now face court cases as a result of the so called three-strikes law adopted two years ago. The three-strikes system works in three stages. Hadopi , the agency that administers the law first sent 822,000 … Continue reading →

A British student has been sentenced to eight months jail after it was proved that he hacked into Facebook network . Glenn Mangham , 26 , a student of software development , admitted during the trial that he hacked into … Continue reading →

A report by FTC titled “Mobile Apps for Kids: Current Privacy Disclosures are Dis app ointing” has urged Apple and Android to take more measures to protect young users of apps. The researchers studied 8000 apps on Apple store and 3000 apps … Continue reading →

Two popular ebook sharing websites have been served with court order on heels of Megaupload saga. Library.nu and Ifile.it , based in Ireland , have been accused of making available more than 400,000 copyrighted books for free download . The … Continue reading →

Hackers celebrated the Valentine’s Day by taking down the website of Combined Systems . February 14 is also the anniversary of Bahrain uprising , popularly called February 14 revolution . The hackers said that it was in retaliation for the … Continue reading →

It seems that Iran has not learnt any lessons from the recent uprisings in Syria , Libya and Egypt . CNET is reporting that Iran has cut down access to all major popular websites  like Yahoo , Gmail , Hotmail … Continue reading →

A research paper titled ‘Reel Piracy: The Effect of Online Film Piracy on International Box Office Sales’ of University of Minnesota and Wellesley College has concluded that there is no direct link between torrent piracy and US box office returns of … Continue reading →