The internet is built of services. One of the core services, and a major choke-point for control, is domain name resolution. There have been some alternates come and go, but one of the strongest has been OpenNIC, and they’ve just launched a new top level domain – .pirate

Despite the best efforts of Dutch lobby groups, and American entertainment cartels, the internet is a place where barriers don’t stay barriers for long.

Throw a roadblock out and a new route is recalculated. So it is with DNS. Add blocks in the ICANN systems, and people work their way around them.

The most common way until now has been a browser plugin, like MAFIAAFire, but alternate DNS systems are starting to become more popular. One of those, OpenNIC, is looking to capitalise on that with its new .pirate TLD (top level domain).

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Online he was known as “Stainless” and according to the MPA-affiliated anti-piracy group chasing him down, he was
the will become the most prolific movie and TV show Internet pirate ever to face trial in the Czech Republic.

Later this month the now 29-year-old will go to court to face charges of copyright infringement on Hollywood blockbusters such as Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

According to the Anti-Piracy Union, the piracy activities of Stainless date back to 2006 and are on an unprecedented scale. He allegedly uploaded thousands of movies and TV shows to cyberlocker file-hosting sites before publishing their links online in order to facilitate downloads.

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Few days back, Dutch Security experts released information about a vulnerability in PHP-CGI code that allows a remote attacker to pass command line arguments in a query_string that will be passed directly to the PHP-CGI program.

Today, Security researchers from Trustwave, have noticed that their web honeypots has caught a number of attempts to exploit the PHP-CGI vulnerability.

“Notice that while some of these are simply probes to see if the application might be vulnerable, there are also two RFI attempts to execute remote PHP code.” Researcher said. They also provide some mitigation for this vulnerability. You can find the details here.

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Over the last few hours the main media has been going fairly nuts over the two teens who have been arrested for carrying out ddos attacks.

Now while its still very early to say but the norway police claim the two who are 18 and 19 are main players in the recent attacks on SOCA, Norway’s National Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS) and other local and international websites and that they are still working on getting others who played a part in those attacks.

So far no confirmations have come of this information from the hacking community but from what i can see if these two are convicted they can face up to 6years in jail for simple ddos attacks.

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The Pirate Bay has partnered with the Cybernorms research group at Sweden’s Lund University to carry out the second round of the largest file-sharing survey in history. Through the survey the researchers examine the norms of file-sharers, and how they respond to increased censorship and tougher laws. One of the main goals of the research project is to give a counterweight to entertainment industry propaganda.

The Pirate Bay renamed itself to The Research Bay today for a collaboration with the Cybernorms research group at Lund University.

The notorious BitTorrent site is encouraging visitors to take part in the survey into people’s file-sharing habits and their views on copyright enforcement. The study is a follow up to a similar survey last year, in which 75,000 people from all over the world participated.

One of the main goals of the project is to counter entertainment industry propaganda. The researchers want to document how the Internet creates new social norms in society, and to what extent these norms are, or should be, reflected in relevant legislation.

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Yet another law expert has slammed the US Government’s decision to launch a criminal case against Megaupload. Law Professor Eric Goldman argues that the Megaupload prosecution is a “depressing display of abuse of government authority” that ignores basic constitutional rights in order to protect private commercial interests.

In recent months many people have been baffled by the US Government’s decision to shutdown and prosecute Megaupload.

While the Department of Justice proudly presented the case as one of the biggest criminal cases ever brought in the US, critics claim the Government has gone too far.

Many law experts agree with this assessment and point out that Megaupload is a lot less guilty than portrayed by the authorities.

This weekend Eric Goldman, a Prof. at Santa Clara University School of Law, joined in with his comments. His attack on the US Government is scathing, describing the Megaupload prosecution as a “depressing display of abuse of government authority.”

Siding with Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom who lashed out against the Government earlier, the Prof. claims that the shutdown of the world’s most popular cyberlocker was a gift to the entertainment industry.

“The government’s prosecution of Megaupload demonstrates the implications of the government acting as a proxy for private commercial interests. The government is using its enforcement powers to accomplish what most copyright owners haven’t been willing to do in civil court,” Goldman writes.

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The social networking giant, Facebook announced its partnership with a number of security vendors to protect its users from spam and malicious content.

Facebook teams up with Microsoft, McAfee, TrendMicro, Sophos, and Symantec and launched the Antivirus Marketplace where facebook users can download Antivirus softwares for free. The Antivirus Marketplace offers the following software for download: McAfee Internet Security (PC), Microsoft Security Essentials (PC), Norton Antivirus (PC and Mac), Trend Micro (PC and Mac), and Sophos Antivirus (Mac). Six months of free updates are included with each download, but users are limited to just one free antivirus application per Facebook account. Download your favorite Antivirus software for free of cost from here: http://on.fb.me/FBAVMarketplace

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File-hosting service Mediafire decided to block all incoming traffic from the popular media search engine FilesTube. Commenting on the move Mediafire’s co-founder explains that it was a logical step as their service was never intended to be indexed in public.
With millions of daily visitorsFilesTube is among the most frequently visited websites on the Internet.

Founded in 2007, the Polish-operated site is the largest meta-search engine for content hosted on cyberlockers such as Hotfile, 4Shared and Mediafire. FilesTube refers a significant amount of traffic to these sites, but not all of them are very happy about it. In fact, Mediafire don’t want to be indexed at all, took action to block all incoming traffic from FilesTube last month.

“As a private service MediaFire was never designed to be indexed which is why we don’t have an index,” Mediafire co-founder Tom Langridge explains to TorrentFreak.

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Cyber Criminals are selling a remote access Trojan on underground forums that target hotel front desk computers , capable of stealing credit card details.

According to Trusteer researchers report, the Trojan steals credit card and other customer information by capturing screenshots from the PoS application.

“This scheme, which is focused on the hospitality industry, illustrates how criminals are planting malware on enterprise machines to collect financial information instead of targeting end users devices.”Trusteer researcher said.

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A new android malware that promises to display videos steals your sensitive data in background. McAfee Researchers spotted this malware in the official Google Play market that targets Japanese users.

When installation, the app request for two permissions -read contact data and read phone state and identity. Once the app installed, it steals sensitive information such as the Android ID, phone number and Contact list.

Once the information is obtained, the malicious application sends it to a remote server in clear text.

“If the data was sent successfully, the application requests a specific video to the same server and displays it using a VideoView component. If the malware fails at its background theft (for example, the device does not have an Internet connection), a message in Japanese says that an error has occurred and the video has not loaded.” McAfee said.

So far, McAfee discovered 15 malicious applications. The apps had been downloaded by at least 70,00 users. McAfee security products detect it as Android/DougaLeaker. [Source EhackingNews)