It's Now Legal to Jailbreak Smart TV, Smartphone Or Tablet

In our previous article, The Hacker News reported that the EFF had won its battle over the limits that were put on a car's copyrighted software, allowing car owners to fiddle with their car's software. EFF has participated in the rulemaking procedure held by the United States copyright office DMC...

EFF Hopeful Car Hacking Demo Could Help Yield DMCA Exemption

The latest car hacking research from Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek has elicited a broad spectrum of reactions: admiration for the skill; outrage at the danger the demo may have put drivers; and even a patch from an automaker. And the EFF is hoping it might also help produce a new exemption to...

Google Search Algorithm to Demote Piracy Sites In Search Results

The Search Engine giant is not going to spare the Pirated content providing sites. Google is ready to fulfill its commitment to downgrade the search rankings of ‘notorious’ piracy sites globally that often rank above legal and commercial sites. Google and the Copyright holders are, to some extent...

Dmca Watermarker < 1.1 - XSS

The DMCA WaterMarker WordPress plugin was affected by a XSS security vulnerability...

CVE-2014-4520

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in phprack.php in the DMCA WaterMarker plugin before 1.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the plugindir parameter...

Cross site scripting

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in phprack.php in the DMCA WaterMarker plugin before 1.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the plugindir parameter...

CVE-2014-4520

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in phprack.php in the DMCA WaterMarker plugin before 1.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the plugindir parameter...

CVE-2014-4520

The DMCA WaterMarker WordPress plugin is affected by CVE-2014-4520: XSS in phprack.php via the plugin_dir parameter in versions before 1.1. Remote attackers can inject arbitrary script/HTML. Documented across NVD, WPVulnDB, and CVE listings. Remediation: update to version 1.1 or apply vendor patc...

WordPress DMCA WaterMarker Plugin <= 1.0 - XSS

Because of this vulnerability in phprack.php, the attackers can inject arbitrary web script or HTML. Solution Update the plugin...

SCADA and ICS Security Session Moderator Tiffany Rad

Tiffany Rad, who moderated the ICS security track, talked about the restrictions that laws such as the DMCA can place on security researchers looking at new systems...

Mobile Security Research Rife With Legal Pitfalls

VANCOUVER–The shift to mobile computing platforms in recent years has made life much easier for many users, but it’s also made life a lot more difficult for security researchers. Working on any software or hardware product carries with it a number of potential legal challenges, but mobile and...

January, 2011: Geohot and Fail0verflow Lawsuit

One thing that doesn’t puff up a company’s standing with its customers is planting stealth spying software on their computers. The other is making a point of taking them to court for liking your platform too much. Witnesss the fallout after Sony filed suit against George Hotz and fellow members o...

New PlayStation 3 Firmware Hacked Within 24 Hours of its Release !

Sony's been arena cat-and-mouse with PS3 firmware crackers, and beneath than a day afterwards its adaptation 3.56 firmware was released, hackers accept baffled Sony's locks. If you've gotten acclimated to accepting custom firmware on your Sony PlayStation 3, the association over at KaKaRoToKS,...

Changes to DMCA Protect Jailbreaking, Some Security Research

A new change to the much-maligned Digital Millennium Copyright Act free users who jailbreak their iPhones and other mobile handsets from worries about prosecution under the provisions of the DMCA that prevented circumvention of protection technologies. A separate change announced Monday also give...