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• Symantec expects Anonymous to publish more stolen source code

  By Gregg Keizer | 08 February, 2012 06:12

  Symantec today confirmed that the pcAnywhere source code published on the Web Monday by hackers who tried to extort $50,000 from the company was legitimate.

• Copyright lawsuit targets owners of non-secure wireless networks

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 07 February, 2012 08:15

  A federal lawsuit filed in Massachusetts could test the question of whether individuals who leave their wireless networks unsecured can be held liable if someone uses the network to illegally download copyrighted content.

• iiNet v AFACT: What’s going to happen in the High Court?

  By Spandas Lui | 07 October, 2011 15:43

  Having brewed for more than two years, the copyright case between iiNet and the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) may soon come to a close as both parties head off to the High Court.

• NAC saves University of North Carolina money, keeps illegal file sharing in check

  By Tim Greene | 30 September, 2011 01:31

  Network access control (NAC) is saving the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill $40,000 per year by keeping students from illegally using peer-to-peer file-sharing applications.

• BitTorrent web downloads hijacked to push fake antivirus

  By John E Dunn | 16 September, 2011 00:15

  The publisher of the uTorrent file-sharing program has admitted to suffering a major security breach that allowed attackers to substitute downloads of its client for malware pushing fake antivirus software.

• 200,000 BitTorrent users sued since 2010

  By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 10 August, 2011 00:00

  Since the beginning of 2010, a whopping 200,000 BitTorrent users have been sued in mass file-sharing lawsuits by copyright trolls, according to TorrentFreak.

• 'Hurt Locker' lawsuit targets 24,583 BitTorrent users

  By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 25 May, 2011 01:26

  Voltage Pictures, producers of the Oscar-winning 2009 film "The Hurt Locker," is suing 24,583 BitTorrent users for downloading the film.

• Netflix grabbing greater share of bandwidth

  By Jared Newman | 19 May, 2011 01:55

  Cable killer or not, Netflix takes a big bite out of bandwidth every night in America.

• EFA slams AFACT piracy study as 'unproductive

  By Spandas Lui | 17 February, 2011 16:19

  A damning report commissioned by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) on movie theft’s impact on the economy will do little to discourage film piracy online, according to Internet advocacy group, Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA).

• Google Instant bans 'BitTorrent' word

  By Jared Newman | 28 January, 2011 03:10

  What do curse words, porn terms and the word BitTorrent have in common? They're all blacklisted from Google Instant.

• BitTorrent to put its stamp on Taiwanese electronics

  By Ralph Jennings | 07 January, 2011 22:05

  BitTorrent will work with a Taiwanese research institute to develop a certification scheme for local consumer electronics makers who want to put its filesharing applications in their products, a world first for the popular high-speed file-sharing protocol, the research institute said on Friday.

• Hackers could use leaked Gawker info to attack gov't workers

  By Gregg Keizer | 14 December, 2010 08:31

  Passwords used by people employed by US federal, state and local governments were among those disclosed by the Gawker hack over the weekend, according to a report by PBS NewsHour on Monday.

• BitTorrent for beginners

  By Patrick Miller | 23 November, 2010 03:12

  Comcast wants to kill it, your next wireless router will probably have it built-in, and you can use it to download the entire GeoCities archive. BitTorrent has come a long way since its public release on July 2, 2001, but unless you're a regular media pirate, you probably haven't used it much. Read on to find out how it works and to clear up a few common misconceptions about it.

• Geocities archive to be released via BitTorrent

  By Chris Head | 28 October, 2010 10:00

  It was about a year ago that Yahoo!-hosted Geocities sites started going offline. For the majority of Internet users, this event was met with little fanfare; Geocities had long gone out of fashion as a free web host and been replaced by sites like Myspace, Facebook, Wordpress, and more recently, Tumblr.

• uTorrent patches application against DLL vulnerability

  By Jeremy Kirk | 30 August, 2010 04:31

  The developers of the uTorrent file-sharing application have released an updated version that fixes a problem that could allow an attacker to load malicious code onto a user's computer.