DMCA Takedowns Target Torrent Release of ‘Dark and Darker’ Playtest
Upcoming first-person shooter game Dark and Darker is scheduled to launch later this year, but even at this early stage it’s causing controversy. Last month, police in South Korea raided the offices of local game studio Ironmace. According to reports, the developers allegedly stole assets from their former employer, game publisher Nexon, which is allegedly working on a similar project too. A few days later, Nexon sent a DMCA takedown...
Run a distributed database on the cloud
Run a distributed database on the cloud wuweijie Mon, 04/17/2023 – 03:00 Apache ShardingSphere is an open source distributed database toolkit. It enhances any database with data sharding, elastic scaling, encryption, and many other capabilities. Deploying and maintaining ShardingSphere-Proxy clusters and load balancing manually can be labor-intensive and time-consuming. To address this issue, Apache ShardingSphere offers...
Preserving the open web through Drupal
Preserving the open web through Drupal Dries Mon, 04/17/2023 – 03:00 Just because I share content online doesn’t mean I want to share control over it. My website is a perfect example of what I mean. I take photos nearly everywhere I go: To date, I have more than 10,000 photos uploaded to my Drupal site. Using something like Instagram might be easier, but my photos are precious to me, which is why I feel so strongly about...
Security Roundup: Leak of Top-Secret US Intel Risks a New Wave of Mass Surveillance
Plus: Hackers claim to have stolen 10 TB from Western Digital, a new spyware has emerged, and WhatsApp gets a fresh security feature. Powered by WPeMatico
Silk Road Hacker Sentenced to a Year in Prison for Wire Fraud
On April 14, 2023, the Department of Justice (DOJ) for the Southern District of New York revealed that the hacker responsible for the Silk Road marketplace breach had been sentenced to a year in prison for wire fraud charges. James Zhong stole more than 50,000 bitcoin from the darknet marketplace (DNM) in September 2012. DOJ attorney Damian Williams stated that Zhong had utilized a bitcoin mixing service, an international...
