Archive for 2012/04/03

US official: Cyber-defence slow due to generation gap

Posted: 2012/04/03 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Public Policy, Tech Evolution

Sluggish moves to counter the rising threat of cyber-attacks can be blamed on a generation of policymakers out of touch with rapid technological change, a senior US official said Monday.

“The truth is there are a lot of senior officials in many countries who barely even know how to use an email,” Rose Gottemoeller, US acting under-secretary for arms control and international security, said during a visit to Estonia.

“The change will come with the new generation,” she told the audience at a lecture delivered at the Estonian IT College, in the Baltic state’s capital Tallinn.

More:
http://news.yahoo.com/cyber-defence-slow-due-generation-gap-us-official-202942386.html

EU plans tougher punishment for hackers – and their bosses

Posted: 2012/04/03 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Public Policy

Legal persons would be liable for offences committed for their benefit (e.g. a company would be liable for hiring a hacker to get access to a competitor’s database), whether deliberately or through a lack of supervision,” the European Parliament said in a statement. “They would also face penalties such as exclusion for entitlement to public benefits or judicial winding-up.”

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/03/businesses_could_be_liable_for_criminal_offences_under_proposed_cyber_attack_laws/

Computer expert who stole eight million people’s personal details for an ‘intellectual challenge’ jailed for two and half years

Posted: 2012/04/03 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Jurisprudence

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2124114/Computer-hacker-Edward-Pearson-Lendale-York-stole-million-people-s-personal-details-jailed-half-years.html

Cable-cutting rogue engineer caused ultra fast broadband havoc

Posted: 2012/04/03 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

A former SingTel engineer took revenge on the Singaporean telco giant after being given the sack by sabotaging fibre optic cables on a staggering 600 separate occasions.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/03/singtel_engineer_cuts_cables/

Trolling Could Get You 25 Years in Jail in Arizona

Posted: 2012/04/03 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Legislation, Public Policy

http://gizmodo.com/5898585/itll-soon-be-illegal-to-troll-in-arizona

Dutch Pirate Party: “It’s Unacceptable That In A Democracy Such As The Netherlands, A Private Lobbying Organization Is Handed The Keys To The Internet By Engaging In A Campaign Of Jurisprudence”

Posted: 2012/04/03 in Blocking, Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Jurisprudence, Litigation

And therefore the Pirate Party wants to add more jurisprudence to that campaign

The Dutch Pirate Party refuses to take down its proxy to The Pirate Bay – which can be used to circumvent the Dutch Pirate Bay blockade – as requested by anti-piracy organization BREIN. It wants to defend freedom of speech, the right to privacy and the right to free news gathering in the Dutch courts.

Dutch language news articles:

https://depiratenpartij.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/persbericht-3-april-update-piratenpartij-legt-verzoek-van-stichting-brein-naast-zich-neer/
https://depiratenpartij.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/de-1-april-grap-heeft-wel-lang-genoeg-geduurd-zo/
https://depiratenpartij.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/de-sleutel/
http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/110060/piratenpartij-weigert-tpb-proxy-offline-te-halen.html

We’re No Rogue Site: PutLocker Responds To Hollywood. Wupload To Leave File Sharing Business? FileServe Disables Third Party Sharing

Posted: 2012/04/03 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation

Last week Paramount Pictures’ identified five leading cyberlocker services as prime targets for future action. One of the services, UK-based PutLocker, has spoken with TorrentFreak refuting claims that it is some kind of “rogue site”. Another spotlighted file-hosting site, Wupload, has taken drastic action in the last few hours by announcing it has left the file-sharing business.

It’s becoming increasingly clear that the Hollywood studios aren’t going to be satisfied with the shutdown of Megaupload alone. They want more.

“All sharing has been disabled,” Wupload said in an announcement. “Wupload is not a file sharing site. If you uploaded a file, only you can download it and it can’t be shared with anyone else.”

wupload

Having temporarily blocked 3rd party sharing in January, FileServe appeared to re-enable the feature, only to switch it off again in the last few hours. As of now, it appears that FileServe too are no longer in the file-sharing business.

FileServe

More:

http://torrentfreak.com/were-no-rogue-site-putlocker-responds-to-hollywood-120403/

Previously:

MediaFire to Hollywood studios: We’re no ‘outlaw gang’
http://vrritti.com/2012/04/01/mediafire-to-hollywood-studios-were-no-outlaw-gang/

MPAA wants more criminal cases brought against ‘rogue’ sites – Top five ‘rogue’ cyberlocker services named
http://vrritti.com/2012/03/31/mpaa-wants-more-criminal-cases-brought-against-rogue-sites-top-five-rogue-cyberlocker-services-named/

Where Are The Top 5 “Rogue” Cyberlockers Services Located?
http://vrritti.com/2012/03/31/where-are-the-top-5-rogue-cyberlockers-services-

 

 

Dutch Government Wanted To Deport Libyan Fugitive Who Previously Spent 2 Weeks At Sea Together With 72 Fugitives Of Which 63 Did Not Survive The Trip

Posted: 2012/04/03 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy, Stats / reports

The Dutch Council Of State has now prohibited the deportation only temporarily to have an opportunity to review this case. Meanwhile the 23-year-old Abu Kurke Kebato and his 21-year-old wife Seena Tafse Mohammed are kept in custody. Their lawyer is trying to have them transferred to a dedicated center for asylum seekers.

Previously Amnesty International as well as Human Rights Watch have made a plea to allow Kebato to stay in The Netherlands on humanitarian grounds.

Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/politiek/2778876/raad-van-state-verbiedt-uitzetting-kebato.html

The Australian Federal Court has ruled Google breached the law by displaying misleading sponsored links at the top of its search results

Posted: 2012/04/03 in Education / Awareness, Google, Jurisprudence, Litigation, Online advertising

Consumers who used Google to search for Honda, Harvey World Travel, Alpha Dog Training and Just 4X4 Magazine were presented with ads that led to rival websites.

“Although the key words are selected by the advertiser, perhaps with input by Google, what is critical to the process is the triggering of the link by Google using its algorithms.”

“Google’s conduct involved the use by an advertiser of a competitor’s name as a keyword triggering an advertisement for the advertiser with a matching headline,” he said.

“As the full court said, this was likely to mislead or deceive a consumer searching for information on the competitor.

“This is an important outcome because it makes it clear that Google and other search engine providers which use similar technology to Google will be directly accountable for misleading or deceptive paid search results.”

More:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-03/accc-wins-case-against-google/3930456/

BitTorrent Crackdown Center Prepares to Punish Pirates

Posted: 2012/04/03 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, New Business Models, Three Strikes

http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-crackdown-center-prepares-to-punish-pirates-120402/

“Six Strikes” Copyright Alert system names surprisingly good advisors

Posted: 2012/04/03 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Stats / reports, Three Strikes

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/copyright-alert-system-names-surprisingly-good-advisory-board.ars

Spanish Ministry of Culture starts enforcing new law on online copyright infringement

Posted: 2012/04/03 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Filtering, Legislation, New Business Models, Public Policy

Spain’s Sinde-Wert law has attracted international interest, as lawmakers across the globe face the dilemmas of regulating the online world.

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/home/blog-post/2012/04/02/spanish-ministry-of-culture-starts-enforcing-new-law-on-online-copyright-infringement.html