Hackers Embrace P2P Concept
New swiss army knife-type tool called Phatbot will lead to new wave of spam and DDOS attacks with P2P-based shared resources. By some estimates, hundreds of thousands of computers running...
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Archive for the 'P2P' tag
Covering tracks: New privacy hope for P2P
Citing this article, in part: Spanish developer Pablo Soto, whose Blubster and Piolet software have attracted several hundred thousand users, is taking a decidedly different tack. While including...
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Song swappers flock to invitation-only Internet
Ah, unintended consequences. Just as the long arm of the law helped support prohibition some years ago, a new form of speakeasy is now cropping up to assist information and file sharers, who are...
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IBM prepares lockbox for home networks
Under the aegis of preventing illegal use of commercial media, IBM announced new plans called extensible Content Protection (xCP). xCP includes encryption software that allows media providers to...
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They will track you down like the lowly…
A lot of coverage on the court’s order that Verizon to hand over a subscriber’s name–someone who had made some music files available over a file sharing network. I like...
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