by Joseph Forbes | Mar 3, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, LAW, MONEY
from the horse-head-in-your-bed dept. The new Copyright Alert System, a.k.a. the ‘Six Strikes’ policy, went into effect on Monday. Comcast and Verizon activated it today. Ars Technica asked them and other participating ISPs to see the copyright alerts that...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 3, 2013 | LAW, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the uncovering-final-console-generation dept. Stephen Totilo at Kotaku has a long article detailing the exploits of an Australian hacker who calls himself SuperDaE. He managed to break into networks at Microsoft, Sony, and Epic Games, from which he retrieved...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 3, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, INTERNET, SECURITY
The company believes the attack was a coordinated attempt to compromise its systems Evernote, which makes business and consumer productivity software for things like taking notes and doing research, is forcing all of its 50 million users to change their passwords...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 2, 2013 | INTERNET, Malware Reports, SECURITY
from the once-more-unto-the-security-breach dept. Here we go again. A new Java 0-day vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. If you use Java, you can either uninstall/disable the plugin to protect your computer or set your security settings to ‘High’...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 2, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, PIRACY
from the prior-permission-and-assumed-wrongdoing dept. This last week, the Copyright Alert System was rolled out. Now that everyone is getting a better idea of what the alert system looks like, criticisms are building against the system. Freezenet says that the mere...