Even as little as seven years ago, trying to obtain video on the Internet, much less watching a movie, was a complete nightmare. With much of the Internet still on dialup, it could take hours to download even a three minute music video, days for a feature-length film. Furthermore, the video-watching...
The U.S. Homeland Security Department has launched a massive online investigation into many popular websites and seized several domain names for "facilitating copyright infringement." Homeland Security and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have shut down many popular websites...
Nowdays, criminals are being accused of and convicted of crimes because of the astonishingly powerful and increasingly versatile personal computer. Police and authorities are finding more and more ways to prove criminal activity simply by analyzing the contents of digitized information recovered from the computer of the accused.
Many consider Google to be the most powerful company in the world. In many parts of the globe, Google basically controls the way information flows. Given Google's importance to the modern economy, it should come as no surprise that the United States federal government would view an attack against...
WHOIS (pronounced “who is”) is a kind of Internet function. The name is no accident. This feature allows users to “ask” or send a remote query to the WHOIS database regarding any domain registration information. WHOIS will then find out the person who registered a particular domain, how to contact...
Hundreds of Facebook users are speculating that a new Fan Check application that tracks your friends’ Wall and photo activity to determine whether they’re your “fan”, is actually a virus. According to "NetworkWorld", Fan Check is not a virus. However, hackers have taken advantage of users’ fears...
