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Scroogle hit by malware

Zocor — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:49:30 +0000

Scroogle was p2pnet’s search engine for a lng time and as we said a while back, and it’d done a good job for us all. It was an “ad-free Google search proxy which prevents the searcher’s data being stored by Google, a Firefox plugin, and tools for webmasters.” “Was” because “We regret to announce that our Google scraper may have to be permanently retired , thanks to a change at Google”, it posted last week. It’s still down and for now, we’re using DuckDuckGo for our own searches.

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Scroogle hit by malware

Harper: on the job with bed-bug sniffers

Adi — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:34:53 +0000

p2pnet view P2P | Politics:- Canadian prime minister George W. Harper has found a cool, new way to spend your money. He’s already blown considerably more than $1 billion taxpayer dollars on a three-day G20 party which’ll achieve absolutely nothing.

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Week in tech: blame Canada (again)

AgentSmith — Sat, 08 May 2010 17:00:00 +0000

Recapping the week’s top stories from Law & Disorder, Nobel Intent, Open Ended, and the rest of Ars: The US continues to insist that Canada , of all places, is in the same league as Russia and China when it comes to piracy problems. Canadians point out all the ways that copyright law is actually stronger in Canada (no time shifting!). Read the comments on this post

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Canada again tops "special" US piracy watchlist

Zocor — Mon, 03 May 2010 22:17:00 +0000

Every year, the US issues its “Special 301″ watchlist to name and shame those countries that don’t do enough to protect intellectual property rights. Once again, Canada is a member of the top bracket, the “Priority Watch List.” How can Canada possibly be in the same league as Russia, China, and Indonesia when it comes to piracy? It’s largely because Canada has yet to ratify the 1996 WIPO Internet Treaties, which require DRM anticircumvention laws and other goodies.

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Demonoid Faces Major Downtime Once Again

AgentSmith — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:24:48 +0000

Demonoid is one of the biggest torrent sites around. Now safely hosted to the west of Russia in Ukraine, the site has previously received unwanted attention from several anti-piracy outfits. So, when the site goes offline a lot of people start to think of the worst, especially if there is little or no warning.

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Bank of America Employee Charged With Planting Malware on ATMs

Zocor — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:02:51 +0000

A Bank of America worker installed malicious software on his employer’s ATMs that allowed him to make thousands of dollars in fraudulent withdrawals, all without leaving a transaction record, according to federal prosecutors. Rodney Reed Caverly, 37, was a member of the bank’s IT staff when he installed the malware. The Charlotte, North Carolina, man made fraudulent withdrawals over a seven-month period ending in October 2009, according to prosecutors, who’ve charged him with one count of computer fraud.

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SEC: Hacker Manipulated Stock Prices

AgentSmith — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:14:31 +0000

U.S. regulators are moving to freeze the assets and trading accounts of a Russian accused of hacking into personal online portfolios and manipulating the price of dozens of stocks listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market and New York Stock Exchange. The Securities and Exchange Commission is asking a federal judge to freeze all movement of assets of Broco Investments, believed to be a one-trader operation based in St.

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etc: Surfers in Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE will soon be able to use their non-Latin alphabets to enter URLs.

AgentSmith — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:55:49 +0000

Surfers in Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE will soon be able to use their non-Latin alphabets to enter URLs.

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7-Eleven Hack From Russia Led to ATM Looting in New York

Adi — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:03:53 +0000

Flashback, early 2008. Citibank officials are witnessing a huge spike in fraudulent withdrawals from New York area ATMs — $180,000 is stolen from cash machines on the Upper East Side in just three days. After a stakeout, police arrest one man walking out of a bank with thousands of dollars in cash, and 12 reprogrammed cards. A lucky traffic stop catches two more cashers who’d driven in from Michigan.

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Verizon: Data Breaches Getting More Sophisticated

Adi — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:04:11 +0000

Methods of stealing data are becoming increasingly sophisticated, but attackers are still gaining initial access to networks through known, preventable vulnerabilities, according to a report released by Verizon Business on Wednesday. “Attacks are getting more sophisticated and more difficult to prevent,” said Wade Baker, research and intelligence principal for Verizon Business’s RISK Team, in an interview. “The attackers still usually get in the network through some relatively mundane attacks.

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Modern Warfare 2 upsets Russians

AgentSmith — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:17:07 +0000

Once upon a time, the males of a nation — any nation — worked off their bloodlust by going to war and killing each other. Nowadays, there are plenty of global conflicts, but they’re largely commercial ventures fostered by business interests and relatively speaking, they don’t employ all that many young men —- —- or young women, as is increasingly the case. And that may be one of the reasons you can’t keep a good video game with “blood, drug reference, intense violence and language” from becoming a raging success.

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4 Hackers Indicted in $9.5 Million Bank Card Attack

AgentSmith — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:15:15 +0000

Four men have been indicted in Georgia on charges that they hacked into the Atlanta-based bank card processing company RBS WorldPay. They allegedly used an army of flunkies to steal $9.5 million in cash from ATM machines around the world in a span of hours. Sergei Tsurikov, 25, of Tallinn, Estonia; Viktor Pleshchuk, 28, of St.

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The CRTC and Star Ray TV, revisited

Zocor — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:59:15 +0000

P2P | TV:- In our first post on the CRTC do-not-call-list farce , How CRTC corruption works , says a Reader’s Write , linking to a post which, although it’s a couple of years old and quite long, it’s worth a read. If you’re in a hurry, here’s a Wikipedia summary »»» On August 21, 2000, after five interventions from established broadcasters, the CRTC turned down Pachul’s application, [1] on the grounds that it did not meet with the CRTC’s LPTV policy, but Pachul alleged that the CRTC was simply protecting established corporate broadcasters who had already failed in their responsibility to provide programming of community interest. On September 9, the station began broadcasting illegally as a pirate station.

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Big Music ‘Beat-to-Bit’ – I

Zocor — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:09:29 +0000

At the start of a comment post marathon, “Jon, here is another article on the entertainment kartels,” says V for Vendetta . “The article is an opinion piece by a Russian musician Dmitry Silnitsky and it is called ‘Beat-to-Bit’,” he says, going on, “It talks about the path of the music industry from its glorious seventies to the desolate state of today. Insightful like ‘When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide’ by Demonbaby.” The original article is a blog post in Russian and, “A translation job was started on the community site,” says VforV, adding: “It is almost finished, only proofreading in English is required.

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ISPs Refuse to Block Cheap Russian Music Sites

Zocor — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:25:22 +0000

The Recording Industry of South Africa (RISA) recently demanded that ISPs should block two Russian hosted music sites because they offer music for sale at much cheaper rates than those already available in the country. Soundike and GoMusicNow are very much like the AllofMP3 alternatives we wrote about a while ago. They all offer dirt cheap music for direct download with tracks as low as 9 cents each with further discounts for whole album purchases.

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