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Widespread Data Breaches Uncovered by FTC Probe

The Federal Trade Commission has notified almost 100 organizations that personal information, including sensitive data about customers and/or employees, has been shared from the organizations’ computer networks and is available on peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks to any users of those networks, who could use it to commit identity theft or fraud. The agency also has opened non-public investigations of other companies whose customer or employee information has been exposed on P2P networks. To help businesses manage the security risks presented by file-sharing software, the FTC is releasing new education materials that present the risks and recommend ways to manage them.

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/02/p2palert.shtm

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RIAA to stop mass suits

by certifiedbug on December 19, 2008

in This and That

According to The Wall Street Journal the Recording Industry Association of America has decided to abandon its current tactic of suing thousands of individuals for allegedly stealing music via the Internet.

This turn of events will not affect current lawsuits already in play and the RIAA will continue to hash out preliminary agreements with major ISPs to stop piracy.

Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits

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Peer-to-peer (P2P) botnets

November 19, 2008

Internet providers can pull the plug on botnets, even if it comes belatedly under pressure from the security community and newpaper articles. We have seen this with the recent take downs of Atrivo-Intercage, Est, McColo, where the bad stuff flowed from central servers.
Brian Krebs at The Washington Post, So Much Spam From One Place?
Vincent Weafer, [...]

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Artistdirect-MediaDefender’s Parent Company enters P2P market with Picast

October 4, 2008

A new twist in the works.
ArtistDirect’s Picast offers peer-assisted video delivery, and subsidiary MediaDefender, acquired by ArtistDirect in 2005, is designed to prevent alleged copyright infringement using peer-to-peer distribution.
Apprantly having used tactics such as flooding peer-to-peer networks with decoy files.
Arstechnica, Revision3 CEO: Blackout caused by MediaDefender attack
Wired: MediaDefender Defends Revision3 SYN Attack
Then there was Miivi.com, [...]

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New advocacy group takes aim at piracy

September 26, 2008

Arts+Labs is a collaboration between creators and innovators who regard the Internet as a vibrant town center where all consumers can safely choose from a vast array of digital products, entertainment and services. Because quality content drives the Internet, Arts+Labs and its founding members: AT&T, Viacom, NBC Universal, Cisco, Microsoft and the Songwriters Guild of [...]

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ESA Hires Former RIAA Lawyer

August 24, 2008

Kenneth Doroshow, former executive at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA ), will join The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) as General Counsel in September 2008.
The ESA continues to attract and recruit the brightest individuals. Ken has remarkable expertise in the protection of intellectual property and an excellent understanding of the increasingly connected, dynamic, and [...]

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Spammers pose as MediaDefender

August 17, 2008

Spammers are using scare-tactics threatening recipients with interrupted Internet connectivity or legal action to entice users to open a malicious attachment. Of course you should not open it.
Screenshots: http://blog.trendmicro.com/
The spam pretends to be from MediaDefender, a controversial company offering services to prevent alleged copyright infringement using peer-to-peer (P2P) distribution.
As many people do use P2P to [...]

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Verizon Set To Speedup P2P File Sharing

March 14, 2008

Hot on the heels of Piracy Surcharge on ISPs proposed by Music Industry
Verizon Communications Inc. has broken ranks with the industry and is set to announce Friday that it plans to help its users share files faster – at least those who do it legally.
With researchers at Yale University and a group of companies that [...]

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Piracy Surcharge on ISPs proposed by Music Industry

March 14, 2008

The industry’s anti piracy efforts appear to be futile, failure to stop piracy by suing Internet users, digital rights management all but abandoned.
But wait, now the music industry is considering a file sharing surcharge, per user per month, that Internet Service Providers collect from users.
This would be used to compensate songwriters, performers, publishers and music [...]

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MySpace/Quicktime Worm/Zango

December 4, 2006

From the spywareguide.com blog.
A while ago on the Spywareguide Blog, I covered a technique being used in Peer to Peer land involving URLs being embedded in Quicktime movies, which would then pop open a website. This has now been taken to the next level, with an intensive and seemingly never ending Phish attack, the sole [...]

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