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UK’s own “three-strikes” anti-piracy law announced

Following the decision of the European Parliament that enables European member states to approve laws that force ISPs to disconnect individuals from the Internet, the UK is …

Spear phishing scammers target Taiwan officials

TrendLabs reports that they have discovered several instances of “spear phishing”. Spear phishing is a specific type of phishing fraud that involves customizable …

China raising a cyber army?

Coming as a confirmation of the assertions made in the report prepared by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, another independent report released by the …

Phishing trends according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group

The Anti-Phishing Working Group issued the results of a survey they conducted in the first half of 2009, in which they sifted through data they collected and some provided by …

Gawker and Gizmodo visitors preyed on by malicious ads

It was only last month that the New York Times was tricked into featuring on their website a malvertisement that took over the visitors’ browser and tried to make them …

Serious cyber attacks on the horizon

A report prepared recently by James A. Lewis, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, used the recent cyber attacks that targeted the US and South Korea as a …

Suspected European cyber pirates denied Internet access without court order

The verdict is in: Europeans can be cut off the Internet for persistent file-sharing, and it can be done without a court order. According to ISPreview, the decision comes as a …

Beautiful Security: Leading Security Experts Explain How They Think

In Beautiful Security, a bevy of experts describe how they look at a particular aspect of information security. They offer the knowledge they have acquired through many years …

China clamps down on Tor

It is a well known fact that the Chinese government is a big fan of Internet censorship. The “Great Firewall of China” (a system that blocks content by preventing …

A closer look at Lavasoft Ad-Aware Free 8.1.0

Ad-Aware Free is the basic, home-use-only version of Lavasoft’s popular anti-spyware and anti-malware tool. To name just a few of its new features: Genotype detection …

What to do when Google blocks your website?

I think that everyone has encountered, at least once in their Net surfing history, the following alerts next to a search result: “This site may harm your …

NASA hacker loses another extradition appeal

BBC News reports that another episode of the Gary McKinnon 7 year long extradition saga is revealed: he has been denied the possibility of appealing to the UK Supreme Court. …

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