Security News

Alleged Kickass Torrents owner arrested, site taken down (Help Net Security)
2016-07-21 21:43

Artem Vaulin, a 30-year-old Ukrainian that is believed to be the creator and owner of Kickass Torrents, currently the most popular and most visited illegal file-sharing website, has been arrested...

Fake gaming torrents download unwanted apps instead of popular games (Help Net Security)
2016-06-08 19:49

If you’re looking for torrents to download pirated copies of popular games, be extra careful not to be tricked into downloading malicious and unwanted software instead. According to Symantec...

Audiophile torrent site lt;igt;What.CDlt;/igt; fully pwnable thanks to wrecked RNG (The Register)
2016-05-02 00:57

Putin's key internet adviser accused of owning a torrent site (SC Magazine)
2016-01-20 23:11

Huge Collection of Security Conference Related Videos Podcasts (Direct Downloads or Torrents) (Reddit)
2016-01-20 15:41

Privacy issues spur torrent trackers to ban Windows 10 users (SC Magazine)
2015-08-25 19:53

Blog post: How to detect Popcorn Time activity on your network. The Popcorn Time application uses the Bittorrent protocol to sequentially download torrent pieces. You may be able to spot it using Wireshark or some other Bittorrent decoder. (Reddit)
2015-05-26 15:11

μTorrent comes bundled with crypto-miner, users are furious (Help Net Security)
2015-03-09 15:19

BitTorrent, the company responsible for the development of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol as well as that of μTorrent, a widely used torrent client, has been criticized for bundling the pop...

Fancy a cryptocoin miner with your Torrent client? "Foistware" back in the spotlight... (Naked Security)
2015-03-09 12:45

If product X suddenly wants you to install product Y as a "recommended extra", is that a good thing or a bad one? In the latest brouhaha, X = torrent client and Y = cryptocoin miner...

Film studios 'launch cyber attacks on torrent sites'
2010-09-10 07:50

http://www.tgdaily.com/games-and-entertainment-features/51458-film-studios-launch-cyber-attacks-on-torrent-sites By Emma Woollacott TG Daily 9th Sep 2010 An Indian firm has blithely admitted...