Is It Worth It to Defend Your Service from Video Piracy?

The answer isn't obvious. From headcount to vendor spend, combating video piracy is expensive. And piracy has been a part of the entertainment industry since the silent movie era. It's not crazy to say, "Maybe it's just a cost of doing show business." So let's start with a different question. How...

displaysolutions.samsung.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-632719 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| displaysolutions.samsung.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

ExtraTorrent Joins Kickass Torrents in Permanent Shutdown

After the closures of Kickass Torrents and Torrentz.eu, the torrent community now bids farewell to ExtraTorrent, once the second most popular torrent site worldwide. ExtraTorrent has officially shut down. Users should stop searching for 'extratorrents unblock' and 'extratorrents proxy' websites. ...

The Pirate Bay Updated With Phoenix Image and Set to return on 1 February

The Pirate Bay — an infamous Torrent website predominantly used to share copyrighted material free of charge — could be relaunched on 1st February, the date the website has long been expected to return. The website went dark from the Internet following a raid in Sweden last month. After a complai...

'Six Strikes' System Flags P2P Piracy and Throttles Broadband Connections

The entertainment industry is teaming with five major Internet service providers to this week launch a new Copyright Alert System that will first warn online pirates and then start to strangle bandwidth of repeat offenders. Dubbed “Six Strikes,” the new system began roll out Monday, putting...