After being arrested this past weekend in Cambodia, The Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg will be deported by Cambodian officials.
Megaupload, the popular file-hosting site that the U.S. government shut down in mid-January, may have had many users in the U.S. government, according to new interview with founder Kim Dotcom.
Dotcom (pictured) and several other Megaupload employees were named in …
The United States government, as promised, has filed papers with New Zealand to extradite Megaupload founder and alleged mega-pirate Kim Dotcom, according to the New Zealand Herald.
Dotcom (pictured) and several other Megaupload employees were named in a 72-page indictment …
This story originally appeared on CNET and is republished with permission.
For the scope of this article, I am leaving all of the commentary on SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, and such aside for others much more well-versed than I to discuss.…
Worried your legal files stored on Megaupload are about to be deleted? The non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has offered to help with retrieving legitimate content and returning it to Megaupload users.
For those who haven’t been paying attention, here’s …
When Megaupload was shut down a week ago by the Department of Justice and FBI for allegedly profiting from copyright infringement, many of the service’s users complained that they lost personal, non-infringing files. Now those users are banding together to …
Larger-than-life Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was denied bail in a New Zealand court on Wednesday morning after his hearing was delayed Monday.
Dotcom (pictured) and several other Megaupload employees were named in a 72-page indictment issued last Thursday by the …
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As more details come to light in the much-publicized Megaupload case, other file-sharing sites around the web are shutting their doors in fear that they could be targeted next by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Over the weekend, popular Megaupload …
After being arrested and charged with running a huge online piracy ring, larger-than-life founder of file-sharing site Megaupload Kim Dotcom said Monday in a bail hearing that he was innocent of all charges.
Dotcom (pictured) and several other Megaupload employees …
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As the strange case of file-sharing site Megaupload continues to unfold, many wonder if the federal government will begin to clamp down on similar sites that function like Megaupload, with easy sharing and hosting of copyrighted files.
Already, two well-known …
Hacker collective Anonymous continues to strike at sites around the Web in retaliation for the government shuttering Megaupload.com, and today the notorious group briefly took down broadcast network CBS’s homepage.
Anonymous has a long history of attacking government and business …
In the weirdly unfolding case of Megaupload, the “rogue” file-sharing site that was taken down by the Department of Justice Thursday, another puzzling element has come to light.
Just days after the New York Post claimed that musician and producer …
Federal prosecuters have shut down popular file-sharing site Megaupload.com and charged its founders with a number of felonies, according to a statement by the Department of Justice and the FBI.
The DOJ indictment alleges that a vast criminal enterprise led …
“Organized crime is exactly that – organized,” said Marc Goodman at this week’s O’Reilly Strata conference, “especially in the field of cyber crime.”
Goodman knows a thing or two about crime. He started off as an LAPD streetcop before starting …
If you have a website serving a small community, you’re safe from cyberattacks, right?
Wrong. We are all at risk, according to the fittingly titled study, WAAR, or the Web Application Attack Report from data security company Imperva.
The first …
Antivirus vendor Symantec detected more than 286 million malware threats last year, signaling a big jump in the volume of automated cyber threats.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company said in its 16th annual Internet Security Threat Report that threats are …
Rustock was one of the biggest botnets in the world, producing more e-mail spam than any other network. But early yesterday, it ceased sending spam. Investigators at Microsoft uncovered Rustock’s owners, and law enforcement swooped in to shut it down.…
Today’s funding announcements include software for children’s apps, easy advertising, malware protection and bionic knees:
Ruckus Media lands $3.5M for storybook apps: The developer of mobile apps geared toward children has raised a first round of funding led by Alsop …
Hackers have penetrated the computer network of the Nasdaq Stock Market during the past year, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal. Federal investigators are trying to figure out who did it and why.
If it’s true, then …
Guardian Analytics, a company that protects banks from cybercrime, has raised $9 million in venture funding.
The company’s Guardian Analytics FraudMAP captures a trove of data about online bank users so that it can predict their behavior and detect anomalies …
