Posts Tagged ‘torrent sites

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today. Internet Access & SMS Blocked in Egypt as Protests Escalate Reports are emerging that Internet and SMS have [...]

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), with the cooperation of Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN, has quietly shuttered 12 torrent websites in the U.S. and at least 39 sites abroad by filing copyright violation complaints with the sites’ hosting providers. The names of the sites themselves remain unknown; so far, however, the major players seem [...]

Can’t wait until Friday to check out the latest installment of the Harry Potter film series? Well, if you have any knowledge of torrent sites at all, you should be able to view the first 36 minutes today, as a goodly chunk of the film has leaked online. The leak comes one day after the [...]

Yesterday, we wrote that Twitter asked some users to reset their password as a security measure. We suspected that the reason was a phishing attack on Twitter, and now Twitter has officially confirmed it, with a bit of background. Recently, Twitter admins discovered a surge of followers to some suspicious accounts, decided to investigate, and [...]


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