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Anti-piracy law firm ACS:Law has suffered an embarrassing defeat in its first file-sharing court case
The controversial law firm that specialises in anti-piracy lawsuits has suffered an embarrassing legal defeat in court.
ACS:Law achieved notoriety for its “pay up or we’ll sue” letters to people who it claims infringed on its clients’ copyrights. The German partner of ACS:Law defended its actions in April, saying it was just protecting its rights-holders.
This was in marked contrast to the findings of consumer magazine Which?
Which? has been actively campaigning against the “pay up or we’ll sue” letter campaign used by ACS:Law, after it received hundreds of enquiries from people who claimed they were wrongly accused of pirating porn and music content. Among the accused was a 78-year-old man, accused of downloading pornography.
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The Swiss Pirate Party provides WikiLeaks a new home, after EveryDNS cuts it off the Internet
The WikiLeaks website has been removed from the Internet’s domain name service (DNS) after posting thousands of secret US diplomatic documents, but now has an address in Switzerland, Wikileaks.ch, apparently provided by the local Pirate Party.
Domain name service provider EveryDNS.net terminated services to the whistleblosing site last on 2 December, claiming denial of service (DoS) attacks on Wikileaks.org had threatened its infrastructure and endangered access to thousands of other websites.
The Swiss address was announced this morning on Wikileaks’ Twitter feed, hours after WikiLeaks effectively disappeared from the Internet. According to a Whois record at DomainTools.com the domain was registered to the Swiss Pirate Party earlier this year.
While the site’s web address is fluid, users can also reach the wikilieaks.org, and cablegate.org sites if they bypass the DNS lookup, and type in their respective IP addresses, http://88.80.13.160/ and http://204.236.131.131/.
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Google is working on a fix to a zero-day flaw that could see Android users’ data being accessed by hackers
A British security expert, Thomas Cannon, has a discovered a potentially serious vulnerability in the Android browser that could lead to a user’s data on their mobile phone or tablet device being exposed to attack. Google confirmed to eWEEK Europe UK that it is currently working on a fix.
Cannon discovered the vulnerability in the Android browser and then informed Google, before posting information about the flaw on his blog.
“While doing an application security assessment one evening I found a general vulnerability in Android which allows a malicious website to get the contents of any file stored on the SD card,” Cannon wrote. “It would also be possible to retrieve a limited range of other data and files stored on the phone using this vulnerability.”
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A banker has accidentally leaked the details of an upcoming flotation in an email, osting the Swiss bank an estimated £6.2 million in fees
Human error is being blamed after a banker accidentally leaked the details of General Motors’ upcoming flotation in an email.
The banker at Swiss bank UBS is thought to have accidentally send out the rogue email to more than 100 people.
According to the Daily Telegraph, the mistake led to UBS being dropped as an underwriter to the car maker.
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The alleged leak apparently also included details of GM’s listing price. The incident was revealed in papers filed by GM at America’s Securities & Exchange Commission.
The filing, which said the email did “not reflect GM’s views”, reportedly said that investors who buy GM stock could seek refunds or damages because of the leak if UBS remained an underwriter on the deal.
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Security firm Imperva has compiled a list of the top ten security trends for 2011, with government hacking and smartphone attacks topping the stack.
The security firm highlighted that government-sponsored cyber attacks will become more sophisticated, building on techniques learnt from the the commercial hacker industry, such as automation and viral distribution. Attacks such as the infamous Stuxnet worm are likely to become more common, with hackers aiming to gain control of critical infrastructure.
Meanwhile, cyber security will increasingly become a business process, with CISOs and security professionals needing to become experts in enterprise data protection, according to Imperva. As security researchers become better at unearthing less diligent criminals, the hacker community will consolidate into a few, more powerful cyber-crime organisations.
Imperva gave the example of the cyber-crime ring that used the Zeus Trojan to steal $70 million from US banks and £6 million from UK accounts. Many of the ring leaders were arrested in September this year, following a year-long investigation that included the infiltration of hackers’ servers by security researchers.
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A new survey has revealed that business concerns over the complexity of migrating to Windows Office 2010 software is leading to delayed deployments
Bad news for Microsoft after a new survey found that concerns around the complexity of migrating to Microsoft Office 2010 is delaying broad deployment until 2011.
In a global survey of 953 IT professionals conducted by market research firm Dimensional Research and sponsored by Dell’s Kace division, eighty-five percent of those polled said they plan to adopt Office 2010, and while enthusiasm for Office 2010 is high, almost 80 percent of IT professionals polled said they have significant concerns about the complexity of the migration.
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Three IBM Analytics Solution Centres will focus on financial services, green technology and Smarter Cities in Switzerland, Hungary and Austria
IBM opened three new analytics centres in Europe, strengthening its offerings in the growing business analytics market.
The announcement follows just days after IBMs $1.7 billion acquisition of Netezza, a data warehousing and analytics appliance vendor. Last week, IBM also acquired OpenPages, another company with an analytics package designed to help companies identify and manage risk.
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Those hoping to get a Nokia N8 phone at the end of September will have to wait a few weeks
Nokia has denied any significant delays to its flagship N8 smartphone despite sending an email to journalists, saying that it needs to tweak the much-coveted device a little more before releasing it.
The N8 was scheduled to arrive on Nokiaââs online shop at the end of September, after several delays. Vendors including Tesco were already competing to sell it with various deals, but the firm has said in an email statement that it wonâât now arrive until later in October.
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The new patch addresses a zero-day Adobe Flash bug that has been targeted by attackers
Adobe Systems pushed out a fix for an Adobe Flash Player zero-day faster than expected.
Initially expected to come out the week of 27 September, Monday's patch fixed a vulnerability the company warned on 13 September had come under attack. Though the attacks have targeted Flash on Windows, the flaw impacts versions 10.1.82.76 and earlier on Windows, Macintosh Linux and Solaris, as well as version 10.1.92.10 on Android. Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 9.3.4 and earlier on Windows and Macintosh systems are affected as well, as are Reader versions 9.3.4 and earlier on Unix.
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Banks and social networks must look to personal mobile data such as location information to help combat mobile fraud, according to Gartner
Mobile users’ personal information, such as their location and what device they are using, will soon be used to validate the vast majority of mobile commerce transactions and combat fraud, analyst firm Gartner said on Monday.
By the end of 2013 location or profile information from mobile phones will be used to validate 90 percent of mobile transactions involving organisations such as banks and social networks, Gartner said. The company will be examining mobile identity management issues at its Security & Risk Management Summit 2010 beginning on Wednesday in London.
Gartner estimates that by the end of 2013, 12.5 percent of all e-commerce transactions will be carried out using mobile devices, vastly increasing the possibilities of mobile fraud.
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Social networking giant Facebook has brought its new geolocation feature to the UK
Facebook has turned on its controversial “Places” feature in the UK only a month after the service launched in the US, encouraging mobile users to share their current location with friends on the social network.
The service comes in the form of a smartphone application that allows users to “check-in” via GPS at whatever restaurant, event or place of interest they happen to be visiting at the time. The app posts an update in their friends’ Facebook news feeds, as well as showing up in the recent activity section on the page for that place. Users can also view friends that have checked in nearby.
The Places feature is available as an iPhone application or via Facebook’s smartphone site, for users whose mobile browser supports HTML 5 and geolocation.
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Canvas, the BBC-backed free-to-air digital TV box will arrive next year under the name YouView
Project Canvas, the UK-based free-to-air digital set-top-box project backed by the BBC and other broadcasters, was formally launched today as YouView.
In 2011, the company plans to deliver set-top boxes that will combine digital broadcasting with catch-up TV in the manner of the BBC’s popular iPlayer. The company, backed by the BBC, ITV, BT, Channel 4, TalkTalk, Arqiva and Five, announced a chief executive Richard Halton, and set out its plans under its new YouView identity.
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Tesco has triggered a price war for Nokia's long-anticipated answer to the Apple iPhone, the N8, by undercutting the Finnish vendor's official online price
Last week Nokia confirmed rumours that its forthcoming flagship smartphone, the N8, will arrive at the end of this month. But now it has been revealed that UK supermarket Tesco will significantly undercut Nokia’s online pricing for the desirable handset.
Nokia has already announced that its online shop will sell the N8 for £429 SIM-free. Indeed, it is taking pre-orders for the phone which will arrive in the last week of September.
Meanwhile, the N8 handset will also be available from UK operators (O2, Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Three Mobile and Virgin Mobile), as well as high street retailers (the Carphone Warehouse, Phones4u and Tesco Phone Shops) from 1st October.
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The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Advisory Body (WAB) is set to go the same way as Becta, after the government announced plans to disband it
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Despite cutting a tax break for game developers in the emergency budget, the coalition government says it is committed to supporting the industry.
Speaking this week at the Develop games developers’ conference, minister for communications Ed Vaizey re-announced £2 million of funding — already announced by the Labour government — to help small companies to create game prototypes. The fund is being managed by the University of Abertay in Dundee, where an undergraduate founded the company which created the Grand Theft Auto game
