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EU Reaches Agreement On Internet User Rights
In an attempt to spare Internet users the fear of random crackdowns on illegal downloading, EU lawmakers and governments have officially finished coming up with new rights for them on Thursday. According to EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding, they sealed the deal when EU governments accepted EU parliament demands to find a happy medium between a punishment for illegal downloading and a broader set of rights for internet users, reported the Associated Press. The EU had been working on the reforms for ...
Hacker cracks Apple's latest iPhone 3GS security measures
A hacker this week released a new exploit that allows users to circumvent Apple's preventative measures that have blocked unauthorized code from being run on the new iPhone 3GS. In October, Apple unexpectedly began shipping new iPhone 3GS models to ward off hackers who run unauthorized software in a practice known as "jailbreaking." In addition to unlocking the handset for use on other carriers, the practice can also be used to run unsigned code. Hacker George Hotz this week released ...
Tech titans meet in secret to plug SSL hole
Researchers say they've uncovered a flaw in the secure sockets layer protocol that allows attackers to inject text into encrypted traffic passing between two endpoints. The vulnerability in the transport layer security protocol allows man-in-the-middle attackers to surreptitiously introduce text at the beginning of an SSL session, said Marsh Ray, a security researcher who discovered the bug. A typical SSL transaction may be broken into multiple sessions, providing the attacker ample opportunity to sneak ...
Pirate Bay shutdown could be inspiring online militancy
The Swedish police network was taken down last week in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Today it was the turn of the Swedish Signals Intelligence agency (Försvarets Radioanstalt FRA), and the attacks are raising eyebrows in the security community. No one is prepared to go out on a limb, particularly since the source of the attacks is unknown, but I wonder whether the incidents aren't in some way connected with the recent shenanigans over the Pirate Bay torrent site. While there's no proof, ...
Best Buy plans movie download service with Sonic Solutions
Electronics retailer, Best Buy, and Sonic Solutions, the digital media company that last year acquired the pioneering broadband VOD service, CinemaNow (it subsequently added "Roxio" to the service's name in order to make its branding consistent with its other products), announced Tuesday that they have formed a strategic partnership that will enable Best Buy to launch a broadband VOD service based on Roxio CinemaNow. The companies, which announced a partnership earlier this year (see the ...
