In an unprecedented move, Microsoft secured a federal court order that, in effect, required VeriSign to cut off 277 Internet .com domains that were serving as the connections between Waledac’s command and control servers and around 60,000 to 80,000 bots or infected machines it had recruited to spew its spam.

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P2P:- If, back in the dark ages - say 15 years ago - whistle blower Cryptome had taken on Microsoft, it would probably have been ground into the dust because after Microsoft had stomped it, few people would’ve known.

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Organizations need to clean up their P2P act, the FTC has warned, or it may be obliged to enforce applicable data security laws.

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Several companies being investigated by the Federal Trade Commission for inadvertently exposing customer and employee data on peer-to-peer networks, have been asked by the agency to submit extensive information on their data-collection, usage and protection practices.

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Innovative software that protects P2P file sharers from lawsuits by copyright holders and identity theft due to the inadvertent sharing of private data is now the 11th most popular download on CNET’s Download.com TORONTO, CANADA, February 26, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ — ZapShares Inc.

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A LIVE aerial snapshot has just been revealed tracking the electronic file sharing of paedophiles.

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Three quarters of Asia Pacific enterprises — and two thirds of businesses in Singapore - have experienced cyber attacks in the past 12 months, according to new global research.

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Legislation would require software developers to tell users when files are being shared via peer-to-peer networks.

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Credit card fraud, however, continues to increase. According to the FTC, a total of 721,418 fraud complaints were filed in 3009 with a resulting in a loss of $1.7 billion.

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JuWanda Harris, 29, was hoping for a tax refund, but after she filed her return, the IRS told her someone using her Social Security number had already filed a return.

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Michael D. Toal is a man of many professions and interests: lawyer, respiratory therapist and advocate for abused and neglected children.On Wednesday, federal prosecutors in Kansas City announced a fourth: alleged producer and distributor of child pornography.Afterward, authorities at the University of Kansas Hospital, where Toal, 55, worked as a …

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Consumer companies are concerned that copyright laws have become confusing to the general public.

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In November, we told you about a move in the UK to monitor P2P sharing and permanently ban users who infringed on copyright from using the Internet.

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The Federal Trade Commission today put nearly 100 companies and agencies on notice that their employees appear to be regulalryA leaking large amounts of sensitive customer and employee data on popular peer-to-peer, orA P2P,A file-sharing networks.

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Slingshot has deployed Oversi’s video cache platform to optimize the Internet experience for its subscribers.

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