In an attempt to comply with a court order and block a single blog, some Argentinian ISPs have enacted a filter that actually makes over a million websites inaccessible to their customers.The whole situation started with Argentina's National Telecommunications Commission (CNC) issuing a directive to ISPs to bloc... |
20 August 2011
07:42 GMT |
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The UK government has suspended its plans to have ISPs filter access to websites that facilitate copyright infringement at the request of copyright owners.Such a mechanism was specified in the Digital Economy Act of 2010 and caused great controversy among freedom of information activists and the Internet community.Th... |
8 August 2011
00:52 GMT |
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The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has won a court ruling that forces UK's largest ISP, BT, to use its child abuse filtering system to block a Usenet indexing website called Newzbin2.Back in 2010, the MPA won a legal victory against Newzbin, but instead of shutting down, the site changed owners and moved outsi... |
28 July 2011
12:10 GMT |
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Avast! antivirus users experienced serious problems last night when the program began detecting infections on nearly all websites due to a bad definitions update.According to Ondrej Vlcek, AVAST Software's chief technology officer, the problem was with the 110411-1 definitions update and affected websites contai... |
12 April 2011
07:57 GMT |
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The French National Assembly has adopted a controversial article of a bill known as LOPPSI 2, which allows the government to order websites blocked without a court order.LOPPSI 2 stands for "loi d'orientation et de programmation pour la performance de la sécurité intérieure," which translate... |
20 December 2010
10:55 GMT |
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In order to protect its users from Web-based malware attacks, Opera has integrated AVG's Data Feed technology into the latest version (10.60) of its browser. The solution provides real-time information about malicious URLs and emerging threats.Despite the Web being the principal malware distribution medium for y... |
1 July 2010
11:22 GMT |
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Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro warn that a new FAKEAV version operates a ransomware-like component as a Layered Service Provider (LSP) routine. The malicious .DLL blocks access to websites such as Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, The Pirate Bay and others.
The Layered Service Provider is a Winso... |
22 March 2010
11:40 GMT |
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Internet users resolving DNS requests through the OpenDNS were not able to access pages on the Ebay UK website yesterday. The problem was caused by a bogus entry in the phishing filter used by the service.The reports started flowing in around last night, when many users trying to access any page starting with http://... |
30 October 2009
11:24 GMT |
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Although the International Olympic Committee, along with human rights organizations, has pleaded for free access to all Internet resources during the Beijing Olympics, some restrictions that were instituted before the games are still preventing journalists, and people in general, from accessing certain webpages. Repo... |
11 August 2008
04:13 GMT |
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