The Pirate Bay takes over IFPI.com

Monday, October 15th, 2007 1,754 views

Ever heard of The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry - or IFPI? Somehow, through a donation from a third party, The Pirate Bay has gotten hold of the domain, ifpi.com. The original owners probably let the domain expire and someone snagged it before they could correct the mistake. Torrentfreak has ...

Pirates vs. Big Media

Monday, September 24th, 2007 1,019 views

As foreseen, interesting things are happening in the wake of the recent MediaDefender email leak. Based on information gathered from said email messages, The Pirate Bay is now going after several huge media conglomerates, filing police reports alleging "infrastructural sabotage, denial of service attacks, hacking and spamming, all of ...

Hot stock tip!

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007 878 views

I don't trade stocks, and couldn't care less about most of them really. But lately there is one particular technology company I've found some pleasure in keeping an eye on - SCOX. When I'm bored I just watch the little desktop widget showing SCO's freefall. No idea what I'm on about? ...

Internal MediaDefender emails leaked

Sunday, September 16th, 2007 1,991 views

Infamous RIAA legal attack dog MediaDefender seems to be in a bit of a pickle, as over 700MB of internal emails have been leaked to the public. And a juicy catch it is! Grab the torrent and read them for yourself - there should be hours and hours of entertainment ...

0wning an Acer notebook

Monday, January 8th, 2007 1,234 views

Tan Chew Keong over at vuln.sg has some interesting news for owners of Acer notebooks. Apparently they all come with a rootkit preinstalled, in the form of an ActiveX control called "LunchApp.ocx" that is registered and marked "safe for scripting" (that is, any web page embedding the code to launch ...