Harvard Site Hacked, Alleged Content Hits BitTorrent
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A file described as the database for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Web site shows up for sharing.
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Spammers are suspected of hacking into and downing Lycosâs anti-spam Web site just hours after it went live. The Web site is currently inaccessible and could also be the victim of a DDoS attack.
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The University of California, Los Angeles, reports one or more computer hackers have accessed a database containing the personal information of 800,000 people.  The school said the central campus database was accessed between October 2005 and Nov.
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The update for the popular Windows BitTorrent client includes serious bug fixes, new encryption options and handy bandwidth controls. In Monkey Bites.
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An unpatched server at the University of Colorado may have compromised information on up to 45,000 students and recent alumni. The patch, which fixed a vulnerability in a Symantec AV console, had been issued but not yet applied.
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The file swapping network BitTorrent has lost most, if not all, of its Hub connections. The quick change in status is believed to be directly correlated with the MPAA threats of legal action if the network continued to operate.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Hackers attacked the computer network at the Naval War College in Newport, taking down the school's network for more than two weeks, including some e-mail services and the college's Web site.
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Reports of vulnerabilities found by some peer-to-peer file sharers prompt patch.
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The latest version of Microsoft's first service pack for Vista has leaked onto the Web by way of BitTorrent networks.
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TORONTO - One of the internet&#39;s most popular file-sharing websites has suddenly closed up shop, likely a high profile victim of the lawsuits launched last week against those operating servers using the BitTorrent network.
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The company that was hired by the MPAA to rein in leaks and catch downloaders of copyrighted material on BitTorrent networks is apparently the victim of a leak itself, with thousands of its own internal e-mails leaked to BitTorrent last week.
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Blog: Media files like those hosted on YouTube are becoming popular vectors for malware writers.
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UPDATE: Campaign grows from distributed denial-of-service attack to Digg bumps.
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Slammed for touting unavailable but unlicensed content
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many of them university students -- for sharing unlicensed music files over the Internet. The latest round of filings
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Also: Hackers rig Google to deliver malware. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Oscar-contender Microsoft lawyers who believed they'd buried the most embarrassing collection of documents about the company's murky past for good, without any one noticing, were in for a surprise this weekend. The archive has become a mainstay of the Bittorrent P2P file sharing networks.â¦