U.S.-based security firm Symantec has issued an advisory about the Phel Trojan, discovered on Wednesday, which infects PCs running Windows XP. The Trojan infects the PCs when users call the Help controls in Internet Explorer. The Trojan spreads as an HTML file and attempts to exploit IE’s HTML Help Control Local Zone Security Restriction Bypass [...]

In an anticipated net radio announcement the people who brought us the “universal BT source” announced what some had known for weeks, Exeem is not dead friends, In fact in this reporters humble opinion it is set to spark a revolution in p2p as we know it. A week and a half ago the P2P [...]

“That was a bad move,” Bram Cohen tells me. We’re huddled over a table in his Bellevue, Washington, house playing a board game called Amazons. Cohen picked it up two weeks ago and has already mastered it. The 29-year-old programmer consumes logic puzzles at the same rate most of us buy magazines. Behind his desk [...]

Just over a year ago, a hacker penetrated the corporate servers at Valve, the game company behind the popular first-person shooter Half-Life. He came away with a beta version of Half-Life 2. “We heard about it,” says 23-year-old Frank, a well-connected media pirate. “Everyone thought it would get bootlegged in Europe.” Instead, the hacker gave the [...]

 It’s a given that the RIAA and MPAA, wholly owned by the record label cartel and movie studios, or contractors such as Overpeer, will leave no dirty trick unturned in their futile war against p2p and file sharers. Now, they’re using files that look like regular songs or short videos in the Windows Media format [...]

In late January, we will no longer support the ability for members to sign in to eBay through Microsoft Passport. This means that members currently using this service will have to sign in through eBay directly. Once this takes place, the Microsoft Passport button that is currently displayed on Sign In pages will be replaced [...]

MUTE V0.4 has been released. The MUTE P2P Network is designed to protect your identity and privacy by using a virtual IP address plus routing packets through other nodes. It also encrypts connections to other nodes to prevent easy ISP or router sniffing that may be used to block it’s use. Linux, Mac and Windows [...]

LokiTorrent is yet another BitTorrent site to be targeted in the MPAA crush p2p, sue file sharers vendetta. The Big Seven movie studios claim they’re being ruined by file sharing and that thousands of ancillary staff are suffering terrible hardships as a direct result and yet, at the same time, they’re reporting mind-boggling revenues. For [...]

The new Mac, code-named Q88, will be part of the iMac family and is expected to sport a PowerPC G4 processor at a speed around 1.25GHz. The new Mac is said to be incredibly small and will be housed in a flat enclosure with a height similar to the 1.73 inches of Apple’s Xserve. Its [...]

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The Department of Justice has landed its first conviction against an American defendant trapped via Operation Fastlink, a multinational law enforcement effort undertaken against online software piracy. The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa said that Jathan Desir, 26, of Iowa City, has pleaded guilty to charges related to his role in a [...]

The first PBXs started at the Central Office (CO) using Centrex, and as its name implies, it was a “centralized” architecture located in the carriers’ offices. PBXs then evolved to a CPE-based (customer-premise equipment) model, which again required a “centralized” PBX to host all the call switching/routing functionality. And now with Popular Telephony’s Peerio P2P [...]

With just hours left before Microsoft discontinues most support for Windows NT4, many blue-chip companies and e-commerce providers continue to run their web sites on the eight year old operating system, although the last Fortune 100 holdout has migrated. Microsoft has retired NT4, which was introduced in September 1996, and will cease security updates on [...]

F-Secure says it’s found two bad news Cabir variants affecting Symbian Series 60 phones. Posting on the company’s blog, Jarno says: “First of all, these new variants seem to be recompiled versions based on original Cabir source code. Which means that the Cabir source code is floating around in the underground. Which is bad news. [...]

The United States is Number One in the Dirty Dozen list of the worst spam producing countries, according to a UK security firm. America is exporting 42.11% of all spam, says Sophos.. In second place is South Korea (13.43%) with China (8.44%, including Hong Kong), Canada (5.71%0 and Brazil (3.34%) in the 3rd, 4th and [...]

A year after the U.S. Congress passed the first federal antispam law, observers see no evidence that it has cut the amount of unwanted commercial e-mail arriving in U.S. residents inboxes. Most vendors of antispam products have charted an increase in the amount of spam since the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing [...]

Everyone who knows about DRM knows it’s nothing more than an end run on fair use. If section 1201 applied to patents, nobody would be allowed to own a wrench or screwdriver because they might have been used to make and sell copies of the latest automobiles. These industry groups promised the US congress “exciting [...]

China’s new IPv6 Net The IPv6 router China says it’s achieved a world-first with its next generation Internet network CERNET2, the largest Internet Protocol Version 6 network anywhere. “Compared with the current IP Version 4, the new version is capable of allocating endless IP addresses, and features a transportation speed of 10G per second, 1,000 [...]

Her parents told her to stop downloading music on the computer, but Kristina Foley didn’t listen. Now, hundreds of downloads later, the music industry is suing her for thousands of dollars. Her lawyer’s bill is $1,000 and climbing, and 20-year-old Foley, the area’s first accused music pirate, is wondering how she’s going to pay for [...]

It’s been a mere five years since the RIAA redefined “sharing” from being a virtue to the very bad thing it represents today.They’ve taught us other valuable lessons as well during the past half-decade, while seemingly learning nothing at all themselves.After 7000 lawsuits, the file sharers still dodge and weave, change software, use firewalls, and [...]