How a Cloud Flaw Gave Chinese Spies a Key to Microsoft’s Kingdom
Microsoft says hackers somehow stole a cryptographic key, perhaps from its own network, that let them forge user identities and slip past cloud defenses. Powered by...
Ransomware Attacks Are on the Rise, Again
Ransomware attacks tumbled in 2022, offering hope that the tide was turning against the criminal gangs behind them. Then things got a whole lot worse. Powered by WPeMatico
Piracy Giant Zoro.to Now Points to MPA/ACE ‘Seized Domain’ Nameservers
For at least five years, major rightsholders in the United States have issued regular warnings that Vietnam represents an emerging piracy threat. Pirate site brands, including 123movies, Putlocker, Kisscartoon, 123movieshub, and GoMovies, were suddenly recognized all over the world, despite in many cases having been copied from ‘pirate’ brands already in existence. After the US Ambassador to Vietnam got involved in 2018, calling on...
Pirate Site Cost MindGeek “$275 Million Per Month”: $117m Damages Will Suffice
Some people believe that the early internet received a welcome uptake boost when the adult industry began to move online. Three decades later, many countries believe the internet – and children especially – would be better off if adult content was heavily restricted online. The main problem is readily accessible ‘tube’ sites. Once hated by the adult industry because they were filled with pirated content that was never paid for,...
YggTorrent Loses Control of Domain Name Without Warning
Most large torrent sites target a global audience, but there are many local favorites as well. YggTorrent, for example, is one of the largest French-language torrent sites on the Internet, serving millions of users per month. The French site is not the typical torrent indexer. YggTorrent sees itself as a community instead, one with a dedicated tracker, something that’s quite rare these days. The site was founded in 2017, to fill the...
