October 20th, 2009 |
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By John Wagley
SecurityManagement.com/ News - The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is sending a growing flurry of takedown notices to peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and online auction sites in an effort to fight piracy, according to a new BSA report.
BSA, consisting of a host of software developers, says 41 percent of the software used on personal computers worldwide is illegitimate, resulting in about $53 billion in industry losses.
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October 19th, 2009 |
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By: Ellen Messmer
For: ComputerWorld
New legislation is pressuring U.S. colleges and universities to do a better job combating illegal file-sharing - and it’s taking a toll on campus IT departments
New legislation is putting pressure on U.S. colleges and universities to do a better job combating illegal file-sharing — and it’s taking a toll on campus IT departments, according to research published this week.
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September 22nd, 2009 |
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Clouseau New Major Release (1.1.81)
1. Added additional blocks (restrictions) for Circumventing type proxies: Circumventing proxies are those proxies developed intentionally to by-pass all current security devices and technologies. They are local proxies installed on user machines and disguise P2P traffic through encryption and the use of port 80 or 443
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September 21st, 2009 |
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By David S. Perkins
September 21, 2009
Data breaches have hit an all time high and with that have been a dramatic increase in new data security and privacy laws and regulations. Both state and federal regulations have been in place for several years with regards to security and privacy of Personal Identifiable Information (PII) and Protected Health Information (PHI). However, new regulations have popped up at a rapid pace. Just a few years ago there were only a handful of states that had data breach notification laws. Today, 44 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands have enacted data breach privacy laws and federal legislation is well on its way.
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August 3rd, 2009 |
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Rian from RedTeam Protection, a division of Tony Josephs and Sons Investigations Inc., just sent me another batch of p2p cockups that exposed personal - and in some cases - sensitive medical - information. In each case, RedTeam advised the entity and/or helped ensure removal of the filesharing application.
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July 31st, 2009 |
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Written by Jaikumar Vijayan , Computerworld , 07/31/2009
Poorly crafted law could would also block some cost-saving file-sharing tech, some say
A proposal to introduce a bill seeking to formally ban the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing applications on government and contractor networks is evoking a mixed response.
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July 30th, 2009 |
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By Brian Krebs and Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post Staff Writers
The indiscriminate use of a popular online data-sharing technology has led to the disclosure of sensitive government and personal information — including FBI surveillance photos of a Mafia hit man, lists of people with HIV, and motorcade routes and safe-house locations for then-first lady Laura Bush, a congressional panel was told on Wednesday.
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July 29th, 2009 |
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Written By: Jaikumar Vijayan
Lawmakers eye bill to ban P2P use on government, contractor networks
July 29, 2009 (Computerworld) - Details about a U.S. Secret Service safe house for the First Family — to be used in a national emergency — were found to have leaked out on a LimeWire file-sharing network recently, members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee were told this morning.
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July 10th, 2009 |
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Written By Jackson West - PC World
Stephane Herry says that he founded his private file-sharing network GigaTribe out of frustration at not being able to share files with his friends on Kazaa. Every time he searched for a file that he knew a friend had uploaded, he saw only similar files uploaded by strangers.
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July 8th, 2009 |
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News Release - July 8, 2009
Sydnor Outlines Approaches to Remediate Inadvertent Sharing
WASHINGTON D.C. - Inadvertent file-sharing can still be caused and perpetuated by dangerous “features” in certain file-sharing programs, explains Thomas Sydnor in “Inadvertent File-Sharing Re-Invented: The Dangerous Design of LimeWire 5,” released today by The Progress & Freedom Foundation.
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