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MegaUpload Taken Down, Anonymous Riled Up
20, Jan 2012With Wednesday’s huge backlash over SOPA and PIPA, you’d have thought that the US authorities might not have made any sweeping anti-piracy moves this week. And you’d be wrong.
Russian Facebook Criminals Unmasked
19, Jan 2012It’s amazing how much work you can get done when half of the sites on the internet have gone dark for a day. So while Reddit, Wikipedia and a whole host of other websites blacked out for a day, researchers decided to take a look at a Russian gang operating on Facebook.
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Twitter Pulls Out of SOPA Blackout
17, Jan 2012Cracks are already beginning to show in the coalition of internet companies protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act – but plans are forging ahead in the White House to have the controversial bill shelved. As we discussed last week, internet organisations are planning a 24 hour blackout to protest an act that will allow copyright [...]
Google Advertising Fake Olympic Tickets & Drugs
10, Jan 2012The BBC are reporting that the world’s favourite search engine has a lucrative sideline in selling knock-off Olympics tickets and mail order cannabis.
Bing on the March
16, Jan 2012It’s not been a good week for Google. First, Google+’s integration into search went down like a lead balloon, then the continuing anti-trust probe announced that they’d be investigating social search, before Rupert Murdoch decided to make the papers by calling Google pirates. So after seven days like that, you can imagine that Google wouldn’t [...]