Peer-to-Peer Network Security

Tampa Florida - United Security Alliance, Inc. announced today that SafeMedia officially approved its plan today to expand its marketing nationwide to include select channel partners. Under this plan USA will accept applications from Networking and Network Security firms who seek to become an authorized reseller of the Clouseau P2P Network Security Appliance and its Active Denial System Technology.

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Wed Apr 29, 2009 3:28PM EDT

Yahoo -  In his first days in office as President, Barack Obama ordered a report to be generated investigating the state of our “cyber-security” infrastructure, concerned with how our computer networks could withstand threats from terrorism and other attacks.

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Posted by Robert Siciliano on April 29th, 2009

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is responding to reports that peer to peer file sharing allows Internet users to access other P2P users’ most important files, including bank records, tax files, health records, and passwords. This is the same P2P software that allows users to download  pirated music, movies and software.

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By Dan Goodin in San Francisco •

Posted in Crime, 29th April 2009 17:40 GMT

A hacker who confessed he created one of the world’s first botnets to use peer-to-peer technology won’t spend any time in prison because of the assistance he’s provided to prosecutors.

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Written By JIM FITZGERALD

 WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - After battling a suburban family for four years over music downloads, the recording industry has agreed to accept $7,000 - paid in installments - to settle its federal piracy lawsuit.

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Washington Post - A House committee is showing fresh concern over peer-to-peer file sharing applications following reports that the service that allows Web users to trade pirated movies and music is also being used to obtain bank records, health files and other sensitive information.

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Posted by Richard Koman @ April 22, 2009 @ 10:34 AM

LimeWire is in the hot seat as the flagship P2P application. This time the issue is not music file sharing but security breaches through inadvertent file sharing. A House committee has sent letters to Lime Group chairman Mark Gorton, the FTC and the Justice Department, announcing that it would reopen a previous investigation into the problem.

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Written by Nafeesa Syeed - The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The headache of tax day is gone, but your returns could still be floating somewhere online if you use file-sharing programs to download music and movies, security analysts say.

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 Written by Chloe Albanesius

  Is your personal information floating around on peer-to-peer networks? Several members of Congress believe so, and they have requested a renewed examination of the privacy and security risks associated with P2P networks.

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Written by Jay Raphael

The verdict against the founders of The Pirate Bay is being hailed by many as a triumphant win against illegal file-sharing. The four men involved in the BitTorrent tracking site were found guilty on Friday of being accessories to violating copyright law.

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