Posts Tagged ‘SOPA’
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
Posing as the US Department of Justice (DoJ), a new variant of the Citadel Malware called Reveton is responsible for a ransomware campaign that attempts to extort $100 from its victims.
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Tags: citadel, Command & Control, Command and Control, Department of Justice, drive by download, extort, key-logger, malware, man-in-the-browser attack, ransomware, reveton, scareware, SOPA, Trusteer, Zeus
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
The Obama Administration joined the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) debate yesterday when a senior State Department advisor told The Guardian that the White House opposed the controversial bill.
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Tags: America, CISPA, Congress, cyberlaws, EFF, legislation, SMB Security, SOPA
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2012
Tags: CISPA, EFF, H.R. 3523, HR 3523, Privacy, SOPA, US Law
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Friday, April 13th, 2012
A new scareware-ransomware hybrid attempts to convince users they are being sued in violation of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and offers to remedy the problem if users purchase a fake antivirus solution.
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Tags: Fake AV, malware, ransomeware, scareware, SOPA
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
The Anonymous Internet collective is claiming responsibility for DDoS attacks that reportedly knocked offline the websites of prominent defense contractor, Boeing, and two trade associations, TechAmerica and USTelecom.
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Tags: Boeing, CISPA, Congress, DDoS, Denial of Service Attack, Internet security news, mpaa, Online Piracy, PirateBay, Politics, riaa, SOPA, U.S. Congress
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Friday, February 17th, 2012
The anarchic hacking collective Anonymous took credit for a successful attack on Web sites belonging to the FTC. The attack, on Friday, was in protest for the U.S. Government's support of ACTA, the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
[Story updated to include comment from the FTC.]
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Tags: ACTA, AnonymousIRC, Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, Consumer Protection Buureau, data breach, FBI, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, hacktivism, Pastebin, SOPA, U.S. Government, youtube
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
A bipartisan group of Senators introduced the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 yesterday. The bill aims to secure federal and private sector networks that provide essential services or that are deemed "critical" to the nation in some other way.
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Tags: cybersecurity act of 2012, DHS, PLC, SCADA, Senate, SOPA
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Friday, February 10th, 2012
This weekend there will be street protests in Europe against ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. I want to put on record ESET North America’s opposition to ratification of this agreement while applauding the actions of countries such as Poland, Slovakia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Germany in withholding or delaying ratification. I would encourage anyone ...
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Tags: ACTA, intellectual property, IP, legislation, PIPA, SOPA, TPP
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Friday, February 10th, 2012
We're sure that most of you have at least heard of
SOPA. Major websites such as
Wikipedia have blacked out sections of their content today to raise
awareness.In some locations, Google has blacked out its logo.The concern of many speech and priv...
Tags: awareness, SOPA, Wikipedia
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