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MI5 Admits Its Site Has Been Hacked

MI5 Admits Its Site Has Been Hacked

The Daily Express has claimed that hackers known as Team Elite have infiltrated the MI5 site, altering it so "the identity of visitors could be stolen and viruses downloaded on to their machines."

According to the newspaper, Conservative MP Patrick Mercer said:

"Having potentially highly classified information available to hackers is deeply concerning. The identity of agents and informers in terror groups such as Al Qaeda are held by MI5."

MI5 says the problem has now been fixed.

However, in a blog post, Sophos senior technology consultant Graham Cluley pointed out that the hackers could only compromise details of site visitors, not content of the site itself.

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Hollywood Studios Go After Pirate Bay

Hollywood Studios Go After Pirate Bay

Back in April, the four men behind Swedish-based file-sharing site Pirate Bay were found guilty of copyright violation, fined $4.5 million, and sentenced to a year in jail. But as the appeals process grinds on, the site continues to operate as before, even thought it’s been bought by Global Gaming Factory, which spent $7 million on it, intending to turn it into a legal pay service.

It’s all apparently become too much for the major Hollywood studios. 13 of them, including Columbia Pictures and Universal Studios, have banded together to file a lawsuit intended to shut down the site.

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AmazonWireless To Serve Mobile Needs

AmazonWireless To Serve Mobile Needs

Amazon is set to open up one-stop shopping for cell phones and service plans when it opens up AmazonWireless.

The site is currently in beta, and already offering plans from AT&T and Verizon Wireless, with over 120 phones, including the BlackBerry.

The site is bound to garner a lot of interest by offering free two-day shipping and even waiving activation fees on some handsets. Customers will be guided through all phases of purchase.

In a statement, Paul Ryder, VP of consumer electronics for Amazon, said:

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Pirate Bay Fires Video Bay Across YouTube’s and Hulu’s Bows

Pirate Bay Fires Video Bay Across YouTube

The folks behind the infamous Pirate Bay site (which tracks BitTorrent feeds worldwide) are apparently getting ready to fire another shot across the bow of the so-called Content Cartel with Video Bay, and experimental site that aims to provide high-definition in-browser via using new features in HTML 5 (like the <video> and <audio> tags) to stream content directly to users without making them wait for massive content to download first. And, in true Pirate Bay fashion, the site doesn’t seem very concerned with only providing access to material that’s being distributed with permission of copyright holders.

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Craigslist Struggles Over Erotic Services Ads

Craigslist Struggles Over Erotic Services Ads

For the most part, Craigslist doesn’t charge for ads posted on its classifieds site. There is one exception, however, and that’s its listing for Erotic Services. There, listers not only have to pay, but also give credit card and phone details.

But in the wake of bad publicity and the case of Boston’s so-called Craigslist killer, the site is facing a wave of bad publicity over that particular section, which one official has dubbed the “single largest source of prostitution” in the US. In South Carolina, the attorney general gave Craigslist a 10-day deadline to remove all sex-related posts from sites covering the state.

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Pirate Bay To Face Italian Trial?

Pirate Bay To Face Italian Trial?

Italian authorities have been investigating The Pirate Bay file-sharing site, with a view to bringing charges of assisting copyright infringement. This comes just weeks after the four men behind the site were found guilty of the same charge in their native Sweden, where they were sentenced to a year in jail and a fine of over $3 million.

However, it raises interesting questions of jurisdiction, according to the Guardian. Although Pirate Bay is run from Sweden, its servers (which don’t host files) are reportedly in Holland. Three of the four men behind the operation are believed to live in Switzerland, with only one still living in Sweden.

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Spanish P2P Man Gets Six Months In Jail

Spanish P2P Man Gets Six Months In Jail

Until a few days ago, cases in Spain involving peer-to-peer file-sharing had gone unpunished, since no profit motive could be proved. But can it be a coincidence that the first jailing of someone behind a file-sharing site occurs just as a new culture minister, Ángeles Gónzalez-Sinde, former president of the Cinema Academy and an avowed opponent of file-sharing, takes office?

The convicted man, Adrián Gómez Llorente, 22, received a six-month jail term and a fine of around $6,500, for violating intellectual property laws because he profited from his site, www.infopsp.com, according to Billboard. He offered links to other sites where movies and video games could be downloaded, and benefited from advertising on the site.

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Government Anti-Terrorism Link Leads To…Porn

Government Anti-Terrorism Link Leads To...Porn

It’s a bit like a bad joke. When a man was surfing the site of the British Home Office looking for information about anti-terrorism powers on the site of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism, he clicked on a link for the external site of the Technical Advisory Board.

However, the link didn’t provide quite the information he expected, as he was directed to a Japanese porn site.

He told the BBC, which informed the Home Office, who removed the link. At first the HO believed it has been hacked, but it was nothing so exciting. Instead, the porn company had simply bought the domain after it expired.

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China Pulls the Plug on YouTube…Again

China Pulls the Plug on YouTube...Again

Last month, the Chinese government blocked access to video-sharing Web site YouTube because the site played hosts to videos of protests in Tibet, including riots in the Tibetan capital of Llasa. Now, China has blocked access to YouTube yet again, apparently because the site contains videos of Chinese soldiers beating Tibetans, includign monks. Videos from Reuters and other sources show footage of Chinese soldiers and paramilitary groups arresting and beating Tibetan protesters, although much of the footage lacks dates and locations.

A Chinese government spokesperson refused to confirm to the BBC whether YouTube had been blocked, but independent sources indicate YouTube is again inaccessible in mainland China.

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Craigslist Taken To Court Over Prostitution Ads

Craigslist Taken To Court Over Prostitution Ads

Do they or don’t they? That’s the question at the heart of a suit filed by Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart against online classifieds site Craigslist.

He’s taking the site to court, alleging that its erotic services section knowingly promotes prostitution. At a news conference, Dart called the ads "the single largest source of prostitution in the nation" and that Craigslist "catered their site so it facilitates [prostitution], where you can actually and more specifically and quickly get to what you want."

"Missing children, runaways, abused women and women trafficked in from foreign countries are routinely forced to have sex with strangers because they’re being pimped on Craigslist," he said.

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