Authorities Shut Down Darknet Marketplace Sipulimarket, Seize Bitcoin
A major darknet marketplace, Sipulimarket, has been shut down and its assets, including bitcoin, were seized by Finnish Customs, in cooperation with Europol and the Polish police. Darknet Marketplace Shut Down, Bitcoin Seized Europol and Finnish Customs (Tulli) announced last week that they “have shut down the Sipulimarket dark web marketplace and seized all its content.” The operation was in close cooperation with the Polish...
8 People Arrested in Argentina Linked to Onecoin Ponzi Scam
The Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Argentine city of Córdoba has indicted 12 people in connection with the Onecoin Ponzi scheme. Eight of them have been arrested. Onecoin Scammers Arrested The Public Prosecutor’s Office for Complex Crimes of the Argentine city of Córdoba ordered the arrest of 12 people linked to the Onecoin Ponzi scam on Thursday, several local news outlets reported. The Bulgaria-based scheme has been described as...
MediaFire Counters La Liga’s ‘Baseless’ Piracy Accusations
Founded in 2006, MediaFire is one of the oldest file-storage sites still around today. Operating from The Woodlands in Texas, the file-sharing service has evolved into one of the largest services of its kind, serving 43 million registered users and more than 12 million daily visitors. Hollywood’s Crosshairs Early on, this popularity put the site in the crosshairs of the Hollywood studios, who branded it a “rogue cyberlocker” several...
Pirate IPTV Provider Must Pay DISH $15.8m in Damages
When the stars align, there is good money to be made running a pirate IPTV service. Given that suppliers, software, hardware, customers and payment processors all behave as expected, things can run relatively trouble-free. However, there’s always a risk that rightsholders will step in to disrupt or even shut down the party. DISH Files Lawsuit Targeting Pirate IPTV Service As it has done on numerous occasions in the past couple of...
Write in XML with the NetBeans text editor
I’ve spent a considerable amount of time in NetBeans, a Java IDE (integrated development environment) maintained by the Apache Foundation. I find it’s got a good mix of automated abstraction and manual configuration that helps me keep my Java projects organized and optimized. Not all IDEs give much thought to text files, but XML is frequently used in Java projects, so XML support in NetBeans is an important feature. read more Powered...
