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MPAA releases new piracy loss data
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) today released new information about piracy from a comprehensive study done by LEK Consulting that the association is using as a roadmap to help fight piracy worldwide. For the first time, losses due to Internet piracy are measured.
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Spam King Alan Ralsky not jailed
The FBI's Detroit field office told one journalist that Spam King Alan Ralsky was not arrested or held, is not in custody, and has not been indicted.
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Consumers in the dark about latest tech buzzwords
According to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive for Windows Live, 71% of respondents have never heard of RSS, 46% indicated they aren't clear on the definition of Internet tagging and 32% indicated they are not sure how best to describe VoIP -- three common services that are quickly gaining acceptance and popularity with Americans who use the Internet.
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Spam King Alan Ralsky rumored to be in jail
The spamming underworld is freaking out on the rumor that Ralsky is going to cough up some sort of plea bargain that involves ratting just about everyone out.
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Bush administration to intervene in ATT surveillance case
The United States government filed a Statement of Interest Friday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) class-action lawsuit against ATT, announcing that the government would assert the military and state secrets privilege and intervene to seek dismissal of the case.
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Spam zombies from outer space
Spammers could soon use zombie computers in a totally new way. Infected computers could run programs that spy into a person's email, mine it for information, and generate realistic-looking replies.
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U.S. Army sergeant pleads guilty in child predator case
Sgt. Joseph J. Wunderler, 29, of Ft. Belvoir, Va., engaged in numerous sexually oriented chat sessions on the Internet with a person he believed to be a fourteen year-old girl.
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Top U.S. universities failing in online privacy
A national survey of online privacy practices in higher education, conducted by Bentley College and Watchfire, found that only 65 of the top 236 doctoral universities and liberal arts colleges in the U.S. have privacy notices linked to their home page, yet nearly all these schools engage in practices that potentially pose a privacy risk.
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RIAA, MPAA alert 40 university presidents in 25 states of LAN piracy
While the majority of illegal copying and distribution of music and movies occurs over the public Internet on peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing systems, students at colleges and universities have been increasingly using programs like Direct Connect (DC++), MyTunes and OurTunes to engage in such activity on campus LANs without using the broader public Internet.
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Feds charge five more in warez crackdown
Operations FastLink and Site Down-the two largest and most aggressive international enforcement actions against criminal organizations involved in the illegal online distribution of copyrighted material-resulted in a total of more than 200 search warrants executed in 16 countries, hundreds of computers being confiscated and more than US$100 million worth of copyrighted software, games, movies and music removed from download sites.
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Microsoft to spend $4B in China
A joint statement released by Microsoft and China's top economic planning body, the National Reform and Development Commission (NDRC), specifies that Microsoft will provide $100 million to support domestic Chinese software enterprises; will purchase Chinese software products and tech support, software development, and testing services worth $100 million; and will make hardware purchases in excess of $700 million each year for the next five years.
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Spam bounce messages compromising networks
IronPort study finds more than 50% of the Fortune 500 corporations have experienced mail service outages or delays because of misdirected bounces targeting their networks.
