New ‘Downfall’ Flaw Exposes Valuable Data in Generations of Intel Chips
The vulnerability could allow attackers to take advantage of an information leak to steal sensitive details like private messages, passwords, and encryption keys. Powered by...
What Doctors Wish You Knew About HIPAA and Data Security
Think US health data is automatically kept private? Think again. Powered by WPeMatico
Judge Gives MindGeek ‘Pirate’ Domains After Porn Pirate Violates Injunction
Adult entertainment company MG Premium has left no stone unturned in its three-year legal standoff with the operator of piracy sites including the hugely popular ‘DaftSex’. The first public sign of the battle ahead arrived courtesy of a huge MG Premium DMCA takedown campaign that aimed to remove 832,000 DaftSex URLs from Google search. Mass copyright takedowns like these should a) make sites like DaftSex harder to find and b) trigger...
Warning: TorrentFreak’s Twitter / X Account Has Been Hijacked
This is a bit of an unusual post, but we believe that it’s important to let people know that our Twitter / X account was been hijacked and put to new use without our knowledge. The username and handle were updated as well, and there doesn’t appear to be an easy way to sort this out without direct help from X, which isn’t proving easy. The account still has our followers so please know that everything that’s posted by the account can’t...
Lead YouTube Content-ID Scammer Requests Reduced Prison Sentence
In 2021, the US Department of Justice launched a criminal proceeding against two men suspected of running a massive YouTube Content ID scam. By falsely claiming to own the rights to more than 50,000 songs, the pair generated more than $23 million in revenue. Last year, the first defendant confessed to his part in the copyright swindle by pleading guilty. Webster Fernandez admitted it was a simple scheme: find Latin American music that...
