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SEC charges 32 in press release hacking, stock trading scheme
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged 32 defendants with fraud in an international scheme that used stolen, yet-to-be-published press releases from hacked …
Your favourite piracy sites could disappear soon
The Federal Government has passed new legislation designed to block access to websites that are used to find pirated material, such as The Pirate …
Blocking Pirate Bay doesn’t increase legit sales, study finds
Carnegie Mellon researchers have authored a study on how website blocks impact consumer behavior, and whether such actions can be used to reduce content …
Sweden seizes Pirate Bay web domains
A Stockholm court on Tuesday seized the Swedish web domains of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay over repeated copyright violations in a bid to …
Sony Hack: WikiLeaks Publishes More Than 30,000 Documents
On Thursday, WikiLeaks published more than 30,000 documents and 170,000 emails from Sony Pictures, obtained from a hack that has been sourced to North …
Conspiracy Theories Damage British Democracy?
Douglas Alexander, the head of Labour’s election strategy, has said it is getting harder for politicians to campaign in elections because of conspiracy theories …
Piracy Notices Boost Demand For Anonymous VPNs in Canada
The mandatory piracy notifications that were implemented to deter copyright infringement in Canada have boosted the interest in anonymous file-sharing tools. Data from Google …
Wolf of Wall Street ‘is most pirated film of 2014’
The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese’s true-life tale of corrupt New York stockbrokers, was the most illegally downloaded movie of 2014. Disney cartoon …
France bans file-sharing site The Pirate Bay
France has become the latest country to block world’s number one file-sharing site, The Pirate Bay, in an effort to defend copyright-protected content. The …
WorldPay hacker sentenced to 11 years for role in $9.4M scheme
In a Friday release, the FBI detailed the hacker’s role in the racket. In November 2008, Sergei Tsurikov and co-conspirators obtained unauthorized access to …
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