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Anonymous hater claims responsibility for Pirate Bay DDoS attack

A hacker who claims to hate both Anonymous and notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has claimed responsibility for the DDoS attack that the bittorent website has been suffering for the last 24 hours.
Pirate Bay urges UK users to circumvent ISP blockade

Notorious file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is urging users in the UK to circumvent a block on its services, after the British High Court ruled that the site infringes copyright ?on a massive scale?.
'Nuke the box' - Push to clean up 300,000 PCs with DNSChanger virus

A campaign is underway to clean up as many as 300,000 computers infected with DNSChanger viruses that divert victims' traffic to sites that can further exploit the machines and their owners, but it's not clear that goal can be accomplished without drastic measures.
Pirate Bay links censored in Windows Live Messenger

Microsoft has reportedly started censoring links to infamous BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay shared through its instant messaging service, Windows Live Messenger.
IPv6 - Akamai to launch new Internet Protocol service in April

Akamai will offer IPv6 services to its entire customer base in April - a long-awaited move that will be a major boon to the adoption rate of the next-generation internet protocol.
The Pirate Bay is considering putting their servers in the sky

After years of being chased by governments on land, The Pirate Bay is considering putting proxy servers in the sky.
Internet voting systems too insecure for US elections, says researcher

David Jefferson, a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and chairman of the election watchdog group Verified Voting, called on election officials around the country to drop plans to allow an estimated 3.5 million voters to cast their ballots over the Internet in this year's general elections.
Pirate Bay faces possible UK blockade following High Court ruling

Infamous file-sharing site The Pirate Bay could be blocked by internet service providers in the UK, following a High Court ruling that the site breaches copyright laws.
Government wants to track all phone calls, emails and text messages

ISPs and telecoms companies to store data.
Transport Minister urges UK businesses to work flexibly during Olympics

The UK Department for Transport is urging businesses in London to adopt flexible working practices ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games, in order to avoid ? life in the slow lane?.

Latest Features

What's the fastest browser? Maybe you're measuring it wrong

Among all those very scientific benchmarks we forget one factor: the user. Our human eye is incapable of distinguishing the 221 ms load time of a JavaScript applet in IE9 from the 220 ms load time in Firefox 17. Do we even notice if Chrome opens a website in 778 ms versus IE's 953 ms? Humans think in seconds, not milliseconds.
A simple guide to Deep Packet Inspection

Most of us don't visit websites suspected of illegally distributing copyrighted material, so blocking us from accessing them seems harmless. But should your ISP ever be legally obligated to prevent you from accessing restricted websites, it will have to find a way to monitor your online activity, and that could cause your privacy to be compromised if your ISP employs deep packet inspection tools to keep tabs on you.
Will 2012 be the dawn of DNSSEC?

Will 2012 be the year when retailers, banks and content providers finally bolster their DNS systems with an add-on security measure that prevents website spoofing? That's what advocates of the security measure - dubbed DNSSEC for Domain Name System Security Extensions - are hoping will occur.
Adopt IPv6 soon or be sorry later, says Internet Society's Leslie Daigle

A dozen of the world's largest internet companies - including Facebook, Google and Comcast - have committed to June 6, 2012, as the start date for their production deployments of IPv6, an upgrade to the internet's main communications protocol.
Net neutrality is good for business

The US communiations regulator, the FCC, wants to set rules that protect consumers from having their web traffic unfairly throttled, and prevent Internet providers from unreasonably blocking or limiting access to websites. The rules are good for small and medium-sized business, if not for the large telecommunications companies that want them repealed. Net neutrality for an open Internet is always better for both consumers and small business.
Five scary social media horror stories

Whether it?s on Yelp, Amazon, or anywhere else that potential clients see your business, a negative review can have scary consequences. It?s also a dirty trick that competitors can use to slag your company; all they need is to set up a personal account on a site that looks like it's from a regular customer and bingo, your reputation is toast.
Will the sky fall if you don't deploy IPv6?

Will the world end if you don't deploy IPv6? Will the internet grind to a screeching halt? Will your computer systems disintegrate into a pile of bits and bytes? In short, no. At least not yet. But you may want to consider a few things.
The tyranny of terrible tech support

I stumbled across this nonsense while setting up a new toy, er, product here in the Gibbs Universal Industries Secret Underground Bunker.
Why we shouldn't worry about switching to IPv6 yet

A lot of coverage of IPv6 over the past few years gives the impression that you need to switch to IPv6 soon. That's not necessarily the case, though, especially for a consumer or a small business.
Five tips to speed up a home wireless network

Maybe you're tired of paying the cable company and want to get your movies and other entertainment from the web. Naturally you'll want to watch those shows on your TV with the aid of a Roku box or similar device. More and more people are doing that, and if you want to join the crowd, you've got to be sure you're home Internet network is up to the challenge.

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