Combat Piracy with Akamai Managed Content Protection

Learn how Akamai?s Managed Content Protection offering helps combat and mitigate the growing effects of online piracy for Akamai customers...

Combat Piracy with Akamai Managed Content Protection

Learn how Akamai’s Managed Content Protection offering helps combat and mitigate the growing effects of online piracy for Akamai customers...

Authorities dismantle online piracy hackers network Sparks Group

By Zara Khan A criminal network of copyright and infringing hackers called the Sparks Group has been dismantled. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Authorities dismantle online piracy hackers network Sparks Group...

Access Revocation: A Content Provider's Tool to Block Pirates in Real time

Akamai Announces New Capability to Allows Content Providers to Shut Down Sources of Piracy ... The Growth of Global Online Video Consumption and Piracy Media and entertainment companies, including Content owners and Over-the-top OTT service providers are living in an era that provides them an...

Watermarking: A Content Owner's Mark to Prevent Piracy

Akamai Adds Edge Based Watermarking Support, Pre Integrated with leading 3rd Party Providers ... State of Online Piracy within Media and Entertainment Revenue losses and lost monetization opportunities by virtue of content theft and piracy continue to plague the media and entertainment industry...

Future Proofing Your Content Security Perimeter with Enhanced Token Authentication

Background: Media Content Security Security in the media & entertainment industry means securing the entire content consumption path. For any OTT or streaming company that wants to serve or distribute its content to end users, has to protect and safeguard their content against an ever-evolving...

Feds Shut Down 'Longest-Running' Andromeda Botnet

In a coordinated International cyber operation, Europol with the help of international law enforcement agencies has taken down what it called "one of the longest-running malware families in existence" known as Andromeda. Andromeda, also known as Win32/Gamarue, is an infamous HTTP-based modular...

Feds Seize Over 20,500 Domain Names For Selling Counterfeit Products

In a coordinated International cyber operation, law enforcement agencies have seized over 20,520 website domains for illegally selling counterfeit products, including luxury products, sportswear, electronics, pharmaceuticals and online piracy on e-commerce platforms and social networks...

KickAss Torrent Download Website Seized

So far, the torrent users didn’t forget the incident of The Pirate Bay seizer, that another most popular Torrent website, KickAss Torrents, has been kicked off by the Somalian registry. KickAss Torrent download website has lost access to its Kickass.so - the Somalian domain with millions of uniqu...

Malware Poses as US Department of Justice Violation Notice

Posing as the US Department of Justice DoJ, a new variant of the Citadel Malware called Reveton is responsible for a ransomware campaign that attempts to extort $100 from its victims. The infections are occurring after users are lured to a drive-by download site where a dropper installs the Citad...

Stealing Corporate Data Doesn't Violate Federal Computer Fraud Law

In a ruling that could be felt throughout the business world, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in California ruled that a man did not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act CFAA after pilfering contacts from the client database of his former employer to help jumpstart his competi...

MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom released on bail

MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom released on bail Kim Dotcom, the millionaire founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload, was released on bail Wednesday after a judge said he didn't appear to have enough money to flee. Authorities in the U.S. allege founder Kim Dotcom facilitated millions of...

Cybersecurity Act of 2012 Introduced Without Emergency Presidential Powers Provisions

A bipartisan group of Senators introduced the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 yesterday. The bill aims to secure federal and private sector networks that provide essential services or that are deemed “critical” to the nation in some other way. According to a Homeland Security and Government Affairs...

Two More Arrested in Connection with Megaupload

The saga of Megaupload continued over the weekend with the arrests of 39 year-old Sven Echternach, of Germany, and 32 year-old Andrus Nomm, of Estonia. The popular file-sharing site was shut down by the Department of Justice last week and its founder and CEO, Kim DotCom, was arrested in his home ...

Tit for Tat - Anonymous Hackers Brings Down FBI website for #OpMegaupload

Tit for Tat - Anonymous Hackers Brings Down FBI website for OpMegaupload Megaupload.com, one of the world's most popular sources of online piracy, has been shut down by a federal indictment issued Thursday, which seized and charged seven people connected with it with running an international...

SOPA in US and Censorship in India: A cocktail to destroy Internet Freedom !

SOPA in US and Censorship in India : A cocktail to destroy Internet Freedom ! As US senators mull over the SOPAStopping Online Piracy Act and PIPAProtecting Intellectual Property Act bills, the world stands witness to a historic moment. Almost all big IT companies like Google, Wikipedia, Facebook...

SOPA: The Folly of Capitol Hill

The ongoing controversy surrounding the SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills in Congress has produced a lot of things: misunderstanding of what the bills would do; silly rhetoric from trade groups supposedly defending content creators; confusion on Capitol Hill; and a clear demonstration of how...

White House Wades into Piracy Legislation Debate

Officials with the Obama administration said the White House will not support anti-piracy bills that endanger cybersecurity or freedom of expression on the Web. In a post Saturday on the White House blog, three top technology officials for the administration – Victoria Espinel, intellectual...

Hackers Plan Satellite Network to Fight Internet Censorship

A group of hackers are reportedly declaring war on Internet censorship, and they plan to fight back with their own satellite communications network. Sound like science fiction? According to BBC News, the plan was recently outlined at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. Dubbed the...

Creator Of New Site Claims To Out The Online Pirates Among Us

Pirates beware! The creator of a new Web based search engine says that linking you up with your illegal downloads is easier than you may think. Suren Ter Saakov, the creator of the Web site youhavedownloaded.com, said his new Web site can link legal and illegal downloading activity from a number ...