A New Attack Reveals Everything You Type With 95 Percent Accuracy
A pair of major data breaches rock the UK, North Korea hacks a Russian missile maker, and Microsoft’s Chinese Outlook breach sparks new problems. Powered by...
Record Labels Hit Internet Archive With New $400m+ Copyright Lawsuit
As the Internet Archive continues to deal with an adverse ruling in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the world’s largest publishing companies, late Friday some of the world’s largest record labels launched similar legal action in the United States. Filed in Manhattan federal court, the complaint lists UMG Recordings, Capitol Records, Concord Bicycle Assets, CMGI Recorded Music Assets, Sony Music and Arista Music as...
GitHub’s Hardcore Plan to Roll Out Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)
GitHub has spent two years researching and slowly rolling out its multifactor authentication system. Soon it will be mandatory for all 100 million users—with no opt-out. Powered by WPeMatico
IP Address Blocking Banned After Anti-Piracy Court Order Hit Cloudflare
With momentum building in favor of pirate site blocking measures elsewhere in Europe, Austrian ISPs took their opposition all the way to the country’s Supreme Court. Despite concerns over the implications for net neutrality, rightsholders’ interests prevailed. Like many of their foreign counterparts, Austrian ISPs soon found themselves compelled by court order to block torrent and streaming sites, those offering unlicensed musical...
Z-Library Petitions U.S. and Argentina to Cease ‘Illegal’ Criminal Prosecution
With nearly 14 million books available for download, Z-Library is one of the largest repositories of pirated books on the Internet. The site has millions of regular readers who find a wealth of free knowledge and entertainment at their fingertips. Z-Library’s very existence was put to the test last November when U.S. law enforcement agencies seized over 200 domain names connected to the site. The site survived this initial crackdown...
