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  • Dutch Treat: Pay for Some Content, Pirate the Rest

    There may be an upside to illegal file sharing: The Institute for Information Law in the Netherlands reports that the average downloader buys more DVDs, music, and games than people who never download. Illegal downloaders represent 45 perce...
  • Cyberwar – The Cyber Iron Curtain: Now Kyrgyzstan – Part 2

    The Kyrgyzstan DDoS Attacks of January, 2009: Assessment and Analysis   Note: This post is a joint effort of HostExploit.com, Jeff Carr of IntelFusion and Greg Walton of InforWarMonitor.net. Further analysis may be forthcomin...
  • Cyberwar – The Cyber Iron Curtain: Now Kyrgyzstan – Part 1

    Fig 1. The new Cyber Version of the Iron Curtain   Large scale DDos attacks have been underway against Kyrgyzstan Internet service providers (ISPs) for several days. This further establishes the emergence of the ‘Cybe...
  • Majority of Top 100 Websites Host Malicious Content

    A majority of the top 100 websites hosted either malicious content or masked redirects according to a Websense report.   Summarizing its significant findings during the six-month period ending in December 2008.   &nb...
  • She's Not a Terrorist, But She Plays One on the Web

      It's 3:30 a.m. ET, and the female holy warrior Oum Obeyda, the Baghdad Sniper, Ihrabi 007, and Abu Zeida, an al Qaeda financier, are in furtive online debate within one of the estimated 5,000 insurgency forums or Websites. They are ...
  • DVD and Game Rip Offs Equal Prosperity for the Dutch

      The Economic Research and the Institute for Information Law in Holland. Showed that there are positive economic effects for illegal file sharing of hacked entertainment products on Dutch welfare, in these tough economic times. Th...
  • Cyberwar - The Battle for Gaza (part 2)

    Cyberwar as a word or term, does appear to be inflammatory for many and a cause of considerable debate. Quite simply it is reasonably defined as asynchronous warfare via the web, i.e. the occurrence of two or more processes at differ...
  • CyberWar - The Battle for Gaza

    Whatever your personal perspective of the rights and wrongs of the current Arab-Israeli war in Gaza, there is a second front being fought on the Internet. This form of warfare is a battle of words and often vivid imagery engaged by h...

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