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GoDaddy Supports SOPA, Sparks Exodus From Its Registry Service
GoDaddy has aligned itself with the SOPA, and thus angered many of its internet freedom loving clients. This has sparked off a mass exodus from GoDaddy to other registrars. Read More »
RIAA Caught Downloading Illegal Torrents
The Recording Industry Association of America claims after being caught red-handed; many people in its offices have been downloading illegal torrents of movies and music, the same kind of people that the RIAA has been on a crusade against for the past years and fining them enormous amounts of money because it infringed on their copyright. Not only are they downloading music torrents (which some may claim may be for research purposes), they are also downloading TV shows and cracked versions of software. Read more after the break. Read More »
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL Team Up to Combat Phishing
Top email providers including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL have partnered with Cisco spinoff Agari to identify and filter phishing campaigns. Read More »
FBI’s Operation Ghost Click Busts Operators of DNSChanger Malware
FBI has released details of its Operation Ghost Click which led to the arrest of six operators of an internet fraud ring that had created and distributed a malware called DNSChanger. All of the arrested men were of Estonian descent and worked primarily from Estonia and Russia. They had infected about 4 million computers in 100 different countries. United States alone had almost 500,000 DNSChanger infected PCs ranging from those owned by individuals to enterprise to even NASA. The hackers are believed to have gotten at least 14 million dollars from the fraud. Read More »
Massive DNS Poisoning Affects Major Brazilian ISPs
Brazil is currently under a massive DNS cache poisoning attack, reports Kaspersky Labs. When a user tries to visit popular local and global sites such as Google, Yahoo and Facebook, a popup is displayed. It asks the user to download a security suite called Google Defender in order to access the site. Read More »
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