From Sony's DRM Rootkit to CarrierIQ: Why Commercial Rootkits Make Us So Mad

The half life of the CarrierIQ “rootkit” scandal proved to be a little more than a week. That’s about how long it took for Trevor Eckhart, a young, Connecticut-based Android developer to begin raising questions about some stealth software he discovered running on Android phones by HTC and...

Feds Take Down 131 Counterfeiting Sites

It’s going to be considerably harder to get that sweet, knock-off Louis Vuitton bag you’ve been eyeing, and you can thank the US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agency ICE for that. The agency reportedly seized control of some 130 websites last week in advance of Black Friday and Cyber Monda...

Key House Hearing on SOPA Bill Set For Today

All eyes will be on Capitol Hill this morning when the House Judiciary Committee holds a key hearing on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, which has drawn wide opposition from a variety of groups and companies for its broad language supposedly designed to prevent copyright infringement. Th...

Anonymous Takes Down U.S. Chamber Of Commerce for PROTECT IP Act

Anonymous Takes Down U.S. Chamber Of Commerce for PROTECT IP Act Anonymous collective launches DDoS attack against the business lobbying group over it's support for the legislation to fight online infringement that many fear will great expand the govt's ability to filter the Internet. Anonymous...

Net pirate monitoring firm hacked !

A firm employed by the French government to track down net pirates has been hacked. Trident Media Guard is believed to have exposed a range of data, including advice on how to avoid detection. TMG monitors peer-to-peer networks as part of France's efforts to find those guilty of copyright...

Taiwan Struggles To Combat Attacks From China

Cyber crime, online fraud and copyright infringement are growing rapidly in Taiwan as law enforcement officials, law makers and the courts struggle to stay abreast of the problem, according to a local prosecutor says. In a Webcast presented to students and faculty at Harvard’s Berkman Center for...

RIAA Targeted by Anonymous Operation Payback !

The rogue hacktivist movement Anonymous is apparently breaking out the Low Orbit Ion Cannon again for a reprise of the Operation Payback campaign, this time setting their distributed denial of service DDoS attack sites on the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA. The campaign to disrupt...

Microsoft Targets Android with Patent Infringement Allegations

The mobile phone wars became more interesting late on Tuesday when Microsoft publicly claimed for the first time that Google's Android operating system infringes on its intellectual property. According to sources close to the company, Microsoft believes that Android infringes on its patented...

File Sharing Site LimeWire Shut Down Following Injunction

Long a treasure trove for free illegal music, file-sharing website LimeWire was ordered to shut its doors Tuesday after receiving an injunction from the U.S. district court of New York. The ruling specifically mandated Lime Group, the operators of LimeWire, to disable its searching, downloading,...

Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Email Scam

US-CERT is aware of public reports of an active email scam. These emails, which appear to come from seemingly legitimate law firms, indicate that someone has filed a copyright lawsuit against the message recipient. The messages may contain malicious attachments or web links. If a user opens the...

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Microsoft Windows SMB Share Hosting Possibly Copyrighted Material

This plugin displays a list of media files such as .mp3, .ogg, .mpg, .avi which have been found on the remote SMB shares. Some of these files may contain copyrighted materials, such as commercial movies or music files, that are being shared without the owner's permission. If any of these files...

FTP Server Copyrighted Material Present

Nessus has detected that the remote FTP server is hosting mp3, wav, avi, or asf files, which could be potentially copyright infringing. TRUSTED...

Web Server Potentially Hosting Copyrighted Material

The remote web server is hosting media mp3, wav, avi, or asf files that might be infringing on the owners' copyright. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; ifdescription scriptid11778; scriptversion"$Revision: 1.25 $"; scriptcvsdate"$Date: 2011/03/18 18:07:04 $";...