Share With Care: 2,217 Domains Blocked, The Majority For Circumvention
At the height of the online file-sharing boom, the phrase ‘Sharing is Caring’ was a reminder that peer-to-peer file-sharing systems lived or died on the availability of upload bandwidth. Its presentation allowed it to be about much more than that. The ‘give to get’ philosophy forms part of the BitTorrent protocol even today, but Sharing is Caring was a phrase that could influence human behavior, to the benefit of the wider...
Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites 2024
YTS remains at the top of the list in 2024, as the torrent indexer continues to draw millions of visitors per day. That’s quite an achievement considering the legal troubles the site has faced in the past, plus the fact that it only features movies. The annual list of popular torrent sites remains largely unchanged. There are a few positional changes, but the list almost entirely consists of the same names as last year. There is one...
A Bloody Pig Mask Is Just Part of a Wild New Criminal Charge Against eBay
Plus: Chinese officials tracked people using AirDrop, Stuxnet mole’s identity revealed, AI chatbot hacking, and more. Powered by WPeMatico
Yandex Yanked The Pirate Bay From its Search Results?
The Pirate Bay and search engines are not a happy marriage recently. On the contrary. For example, we previously reported on Google’s decision to remove thepiratebay.org from its search results in countries where ISPs are required to block the site. Searching for The Pirate Bay This type of deindexing is not unique to Google. As highlighted in the past, Bing has effectively wiped all Pirate Bay URLs from its index until only the main...
How to Stop Your X Account From Getting Hacked Like the SEC’s
The US Securities and Exchange Commission and security firm Mandiant both had their X accounts breached, possibly due to changes to X’s two-factor authentication settings. Here’s how to fix yours. Powered by WPeMatico
