Video-content firm Revision3 accuses anti-piracy company MediaDefender — known for its aggressive tactics against file sharers — of attacking its servers over the weekend.
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Entries from May 2008
Hired gun blamed for business outage
May 30th, 2008 · No Comments
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Legal experts wary of MySpace hacking charges
May 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Federal prosecutors charge the parent who allegedly badgered a girl to suicide with three counts of computer crime, but law experts worry about a dangerous precedent.
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Admins warned of brute-force SSH attacks
May 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Normally considered a low-level threat on the Internet, scans for default-configured secure shell servers spiked this week.
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Hack to the Future…
May 12th, 2008 · No Comments
As those who still manage to wade through the daily flames on Full Disclosure found out this weekend, the boys over at ZD0 managed to get access to the Administrator account on my blog. They posted the passwd file including the usernames and MD5 password hashes for about a score of users in the latest [...]
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Groups warn travelers to limit laptop data
May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
In a letter to Congress, nearly three dozen organizations protest the seizures of electronic devices by U.S. customs officials, an act upheld by a federal appeals court in a recent ruling.
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