IsoHunt shuts down trackers to U.S. users
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Facing a copyright lawsuit from MPAA, company is trying to avoid disclosing user information.
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U.S. law enforcement closed down the thriving criminal marketplace Shadowcrew.com last week, but left its database of forbidden knowledge open to the public.
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If you run a site that has tons of files for your users to download (or even just a few) that you want to keep safe from a direct link, this new article from the O'Reilly PHP DevCenter might be just what you're looking for.
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Fix prevents users from sharing their files and printers with the entire Internet.
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The Bush-Cheney reelection campaign has barred people outside the United States from viewing its Web site following an electronic attack that took down the campaign&#39;s Internet address for six
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(InfoWorld) - An attack this week that targeted online customers of at least 50 financial institutions in the U.S., Europe, and Asia-Pacific has been shut down, a security expert said Thursday. The attack was notable for the extra effort put into it by the hackers, who constructed a separate look-alike Web site for each financial institution they targeted, said Henry Gonzalez, senior security researcher for Websense Inc. To be infected, a user had to be lured to a Web site that hosted malicious code exploiting a critical vulnerability revealed last year in Microsoft's software, Websense said. The vulnerability, for which Microsoft had issued a patch, is particularly dangerous since it requires a user merely to visit a Web site rigged with the malicious code. Once lured to the Web site, an unpatched computer would download a Trojan horse in a file called "iexplorer.exe," which then downloads five additional files from a server in Russia. The Web sites displayed only an error message and recommended that the user shut off their firewall and antivirus software. If a user with an infected PC then visited any of the targeted banking sites, they were redirected to a mock-up of the bank's Web site that collected their login credentials and transferred them to the Russian server, Gonzalez said. The user was then passed back to the legitimate site where they were already logged in, making the attack invisible. The technique is known as a pharming attack. Like phishing attacks, pharming involves the creation of look-alike Web sites that fool people into giving away their personal information. But where phishing attacks encourage victims to click on links in spam messages to lure them to the look-alike site, pharming attacks direct the victim to the look-alike site even if they type the address of the real site into their browser. "It takes a lot of work but is quite clever," Gonzalez said. "The job is well done." The Web sites hosting the malicious code, which were located in Germany, Estonia, and the U.K., had been shut down by ISPs as of Thursday morning, along with the look-alike Web sites, Gonzalez said. It was unclear how many people may have fallen victim to the attack, which went on for about three days. Websense did not hear of people losing money from accounts, but "people don't like to make it public if it ever happens," Gonzalez said. The attack also installed a "bot" on users' PCs, which gave the attacker remote control of the infected machine. Through reverse engineering and other techniques, Websense researchers were able to capture screenshots of the bot controller. The controller also shows infection statistics. Websense said at least 1,000 machines were being infected per day, mostly in the U.S. and Australia. Â
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Beats judge to punch Unwilling to compromise the privacy of its users, TorrentSpy has shut its doors to American file sharers. The move came just hours before a U.S. judge denied an appeal from the company, insisting - once again - that it turn over server logs detailing user behavior.â¦
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October 28, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to reports by research and analysis firm Netcraft , earlier this week the official Web site for President George W. Bush began rejecting visitors from outside the United States
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Symantec has revoked its decision to blacklist a program that allows Web surfers in China to browse government-blocked Web sites. The move follows reports that the firm labelled the Freegate program, which
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Slammed for touting unavailable but unlicensed content
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GameTap is shutting down the servers for its Myst Online multiplayer online game, but site will remain live.
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The UA film industry releases its latest tool in a campaign to clamp down on movie file-sharing.
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Also: Sneaky DNA analysis to be outlawed. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Blog: Some federal government Web sites, including the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, are trying to remain hidden online by blocking search engines from indexing them. Not only is this lame, but it's a good reason to ignore their robots.txt fi
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A note posted on Suprnova.org, which facilitated file sharing among users of the BitTorrent program, says the site is &quot;closing down for good.
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British and Dutch police said they shut down Tuesday the website OiNK, the world's biggest source of pirated pre-release chart albums.
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TechWeb - AskEraser will provide Ask users with privacy controls that will prevent their searches from being retained on the company&#39;s servers.