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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… Read More

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… Read More

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.… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

Supporters of The Pirate Bay, which is currently on trial in Sweden for copyright issues, have hacked the site of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). On Wednesday they left a message on the Swedish site, demanding that the prosecutor “stop lying.” Yesterday they stepped things up with a denial of service attack on the international site that kept visitors out for hours, according to Vnunet. IFPI… Read More

To some, The Pirate Bay is evil personified. To others, including its founders, it’s just a service that does nothing wrong. But the truth is about to be hammered out in a Stockholm courtroom as the three men behind the site and a dotcom millionaire who gave money to support The Pirate Bay go on trial for assisting copyright infringement, according to the Guardian. The Pirate Bay co-founders, Fredik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and… Read More

MySpace can not only claim to be the world’s second-largest social networking site with 130 million users worldwide, it now holds a much more dubious distinction as well: former online playground for 90,000 sex offenders. The site quietly slipped the statistics to Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper earlier this week after axing the profiles in question to comply with its own… Read More

Last Friday job site Monster announced that it had been the victim of another hacking attack, the third time it’s been hit in three years. In a statement on its site, company Senior Vice President and Global Chief Privacy Officer Patrick Manzo announced: “We recently learned our database was illegally accessed and certain contact and account data were taken, including Monster user IDs and passwords, email addresses, names,… Read More

eBay was where you could find a bargain in the auctions, and sometimes you still can. But more and more, the site has been moving toward a more retail or “Buy It Now” culture, and the re-positioning hasn’t been a good one. comScore has reported that eBay’s site traffic in the period since November 3 is down 16% over the same period last year, even though Cyber Monday found it to be the busiest site on the Web. The… Read More