Okta’s Latest Security Breach Is Haunted by the Ghost of Incidents Past
A recent breach of authentication giant Okta has impacted nearly 200 of its clients. But repeated incidents and the company’s delayed disclosure have security experts calling foul. Powered by...
Elon Musk Mocked Ukraine, and Russian Trolls Went Wild
Inauthentic accounts on X flocked to its owner’s post about Ukrainian president Vlodymr Zelensky, hailing “Comrade Musk” and boosting pro-Russia propaganda. Powered by WPeMatico
Record Labels Shut Down FileWarez, Brazil’s Oldest Pirate Forum
At a time when an older generation of file hoarders were still coming to terms with the disappearance of BBS-based communities, new friendships were being built in support of the next big thing. Peer-to-peer technologies such as Napster, Gnutella, FastTrack, and BitTorrent, revolutionized file-sharing but without the support of dozens of thriving forum-based communities, where people shared P2P tutorials, tips, news, and each other’s...
Instagram and Facebook ‘Flag’ IPTV Searches Over Piracy Concerns
Similar to any other online platforms that deal with user-generated content, Instagram and Facebook process thousands of copyright complaints daily. Simply responding to takedown notices isn’t sufficient for all rightsholders, some of which mentioned Meta’s companies as potential “notorious markets” in recent recommendations to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). Meta Rebuts Notorious Markets Claims Meta is not happy with this and...
20 Pirate IPTV Arrests, €1.6m Seized; Held For 7 Months, Suspects Confess
The all-round pirate IPTV ‘product’ widely available today was relatively unknown just a decade ago. When acceptable quality, capacity, presentation, and availability collided, mainstream awareness was just a question of time. The suggestion that broadcasters were taken by complete surprise underestimates their market awareness, but whether most expected the initial hors d’oeuvre to be immediately followed by a perpetual all-you-can...
