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Google was not kidding when he said he would fight against illegal file sharing, and now he died autocomplete when it comes to investigation of piracy. If they were not sure that the digital world has decided this year to piracy, it would be quite clear now. First, Nintendo announces "the golden age of piracy" has come and gone, and now Google is turning off the auto-complete when it comes to trying something with the illegal downloading, so good BitTorrenters the oath to fight anywhere. Using BitTorrent, Rapidshare, uTorrent, megaupload, and the stream is now entirely on his own, without a fill-in-the-blank your browser. Google warns users had come, said he wanted "to avoid the conditions that are closely related to piracy to appear automatically. But what about sites like Pirate Bay and Vuze? Of course, these P2P sites is well known, and merciless to allow illegal file sharing, but also offer legal downloads. Since BitTorrent's VP of product marketing and Simo...

Maybe it was Mark Zuckerberg fan site hack that led upgrade security of Facebook, but for some reason, users now have access HTTPS. Facebook will leave the office during the next few weeks, which means that user activity is now encrypted when it hits a Web server. This is mainly useful when you connect via a wireless network There are many ways for hackers to track your movements on the social network, including the popular Four sheep plug-in for Firefox. Use an HTTPS connection does not guarantee you safe from prying eyes, but it adds an additional obstacle to overcome. Including one for users: Facebook warns that HTTPS will cause the page load a limp. In a blog post, Facebook says that even if it is a general improvement, labor is not privacy. "Some of the features of Facebook, including many third party applications are not supported in HTTPS." Therefore, any purchase of game or information shared in the popular games is Facebook still gaining. Social network to enc...

A new report by Akamai Technologies shows that the hackers seem to be increasingly using the Telnet protocol for remote access servers to attack the company in mobile networks. Akamai, which specializes in traffic management and web content, publishes quarterly reports on trends in Internet traffic. The latest report covers the third quarter of 2010 shows that 10 percent of attacks came from the mobile networks are directed to port 23, Telnet uses. This marks a peak which is unusual for the aging protocol. Telnet is a remote access tool used to connect to remote servers, but it was gradually replaced by SSH, also known as Secure Shell. Directors are generally advised to disable Telnet If the protocol is used to prevent attacks against it, but some forget. Despite these attacks come from mobile networks, Akamai said it seems that mobile devices were the source. "As stated previously, we believe that the observed attack traffic originating from mobile networks known is like...

Month after allegedly assaulting various websites to defend Wikileaks London police may have caught members of "hacktivism" Anonymous group. Five alleged members were arrested in London today for Anonymous violation of the Computer Misuse Act. The men are aged 15 to 26 and face up to 10 years in prison and fines of £ 5,000. According to the website of the Metropolitan Police, reduce arrests from an ongoing study of the recent DDoS attacks which took place after the fallout from the arrest of Assange Wikileaks "Chief Julian. Different companies have refused to cough and the site Wikileaks is constantly blocked from its cable outlet in the United States ranked. In response sent a group of "hactivists" that anonymous calls, repeated attacks by opponents Wikileaks, including the likes of Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Amazon, to varying success. Anonymous claims to be an organization without a leader, there is no hierarchy. Authorities around the world have st...

An Open Letter From ANONYMOUS HACKERS to the UK Government Dear UK government, We are Anonymous. It has come to our attention that you deemed it necessary to arrest five of our fellow anons for their participation in the DDoS attacks against PayPal, Mastercard, and others, that have been carried out in our name in retaliation for those organisations’ actions against WikiLeaks. We understand you are planning to charge these fellow anons with offences under the 1990 Computer Misuse Act, which prohibits impairing the operation of a computer or the readability of data. Anonymous believes, however, that pursuing this direction is a sad mistake on your behalf. Not only does it reveal the fact that you do not seem to understand the present-day political and technological reality, we also take this as a serious declaration of war from yourself, the UK government, to us, Anonymous, the people. First and foremost, it is important to realize what a DDoS attack exactly is and what...