June 12, 2009

Data protection helps pirates

It looks like the various data protection acts around the EU could be saving the illegal file sharers or pirates as the industry like to call them, from prosecution.
The case in example is Norway, its data protection laws state that internet service providers have to delete all data that is recorded against an IP address [...]

June 9, 2009

The $112,000 Trojan bank fraud

It seems that some banks are still having a bad time, as if the current financial crisis was not bad enough they are still finding that they are open to all sorts of attack and not all of them are from the disheartened public who are unable to get loans or credit.
Despite the obvious security [...]

June 3, 2009

Movie industry wants broadband speed restrictions

The media industry that is made of music, film, games and software firms in the UK are looking at new ways to stop file sharers from illegally downloading their copyrighted material.
There have been calls to kick these pirates of the internet or to fine them, but these schemes would appear to attack the wrong people.
The [...]