Archive for 2011/06/22

Virgin Media UK Identifies 1500 Broadband Users Infected by the SpyEye Trojan

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/06/16/virgin-media-uk-identifies-1500-broadband-users-infected-by-the-spyeye-trojan.html

Internet VoIP Call Services Top 120 Million Subscribers Worldwide

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/06/15/internet-voip-call-services-top-120-million-subscribers-worldwide.html

UK MP Tables Early Day Motion to Stop ISP Users Being Cut-off from the Internet

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/06/16/uk-mp-tables-early-day-motion-to-stop-isp-users-being-cut-off-from-the-internet.html

Mobile Operators Abandon Unlimited Mobile Broadband Data Plans

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/06/16/mobile-operators-abandon-unlimited-mobile-broadband-data-plans.html

UK ISP Warns of Broadband Meltdown for Businesses that Stream Wimbledon

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/06/20/uk-isp-warns-of-broadband-meltdown-for-businesses-that-stream-wimbledon.html

ISP KC Generated GBP150m for the Hull and East Yorkshire UK Economy in 2010

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/06/21/isp-kc-generated-gbp150m-for-the-hull-and-east-yorkshire-uk-economy-in-2010.html

Rights Holders and UK ISPs Close in on Voluntary Website Blocking Code

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Blocking, Education / Awareness

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/06/21/rights-holders-and-uk-isps-close-in-on-voluntary-website-blocking-code.html

Google has released an extension for its Chrome browser that helps developers and security testers identify websites that execute unsafe code on end user computers

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness, Google

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/21/google_dom_snitch/

BT And TalkTalk won’t get another day in court against the Digital Economy Act

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/21/bt_talktalk_digital_economy_act_appeal_denied/

Police probe Twitter child abuse images

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/21/twitter_abuse_images/

Storage and file-sharing vendor Dropbox made a huge cock-up during last weekend’s upgrade leaving all of its user accounts unlocked

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/21/dropbox_security_issue/

Elite UK police agency website downed by Lulzsec – SOCA left eggfaced by DDoS

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/21/soca_hacked/

Has UK gov lost the census to Lulzsec?

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/21/uk_census_lost/

Hands-on: running Haiku alpha 3 on a netbook

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2011/06/hands-on-running-haiku-alpha-3-on-a-netbook.ars

US Trying To Extradite UK TVShack Admin Over Questionable Copyright Charges?

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110615/14240014708/us-trying-to-extradite-uk-tvshack-admin-over-questionable-copyright-charges.shtml

French Government Looks To Create Great Firewall Of France

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110616/01431614712/french-government-looks-to-create-great-firewall-france.shtml

Senators Unconcerned About Massive Unintended Consequences Of Criminalizing People For Embedding YouTube Videos

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110616/16480114722/senators-unconcerned-about-massive-unintended-consequences-criminalizing-people-embedding-youtube-videos.shtml

Why Is The Justice Department Pretending US Copyright Laws Apply In The UK?

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110617/04014414727/why-is-justice-department-pretending-us-copyright-laws-apply-uk.shtml

Sony Movies Pulled From Netflix Streams; Because Customers Just Love That Kind Of Thing

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110617/12204514729/sony-movies-pulled-netflix-streams-because-customers-just-love-that-kind-thing.shtml

The Many Killers Of The Music Industry: The Digital Era

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110516/19214314291/many-killers-music-industry-digital-era.shtml

How Much Does It Cost Taxpayers To Implement Three Strikes?

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness, Three Strikes

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110616/10531114720/how-much-does-it-cost-taxpayers-to-implement-three-strikes.shtml

Universal Music Goes To War Against Popular Hip Hop Sites & Blogs

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110620/01370314750/universal-music-goes-to-war-against-popular-hip-hop-sites-blogs.shtml

EFF Drops Bitcoin Over Concerns About Legality

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110621/02402314783/eff-drops-bitcoin-over-concerns-about-legality.shtml

Nevada Bar Investigating Righthaven Lawyers

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110620/15552014773/nevada-bar-investigating-righthaven-lawyers.shtml

New Filing Explains How Domain Seizures Violate The First Amendment

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110621/13015914790/new-filing-explains-how-domain-seizures-violate-first-amendment.shtml

EU: Facebook doesn’t do enough to protect children

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/eu-facebook-doesnt-do-enough-to-protect-children/51116

Google Digitizing 40 Million Pages Of British Library Books

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness, Google

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/google-digitizing-40-million-pages-of-british-library-books/3008

Google Street View cars in Bangalore, India have stopped driving following a complaint from the Commissioner of Police

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/police-complaints-stall-google-street-view-in-india/3012

Wikileaks: How ‘Anonymous’ subverted the most powerful governments

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/wikileaks-how-anonymous-subverted-the-most-powerful-governments/10762

U.K. press puts name to LulzSec suspect

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20072995-17/u.k-press-puts-name-to-lulzsec-suspect/

Network Solutions suffers two DDoS attacks

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20073054-260/network-solutions-suffers-two-ddos-attacks/

Reports: Hulu mulls sale after receiving buyout offer

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20073091-261/reports-hulu-mulls-sale-after-receiving-buyout-offer/

Open Wi-Fi Is Not a Crime, BitTorrent Case Judge Hears

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness, Litigation

http://torrentfreak.com/open-wi-fi-is-not-a-crime-110621/

Ireland Set To Force ISPs To Disconnect Pirates

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness

http://torrentfreak.com/ireland-set-to-force-isps-to-disconnect-pirates-110621/

Warner Music Director Profited From Piracy

Posted: 2011/06/22 in Education / Awareness

http://torrentfreak.com/warner-music-director-caught-in-piracy-110620/

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