Day: April 23, 2017

Nuh-uh, Google, you WILL hand over emails stored on foreign servers, says US judge

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Google has been ordered by a US court to cough up people’s private Gmail messages stored overseas – because if that information can be viewed stateside, it is subject to American search warrants, apparently. During a hearing on Wednesday in California, magistrate judge Laurel Beeler rejected [PDF] the advertising giant’s objections to a US government Read more about Nuh-uh, Google, you WILL hand over emails stored on foreign servers, says US judge[…]

NL Court rules fan subtitles on TV and movies are illegal

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Subtitle lovers, beware: a court just ruled that making fan subtitles or translations is not protected by the law. A Dutch group called (translated) the Free Subtitles Foundation took anti-piracy group BREIN to court over “fansubbing.” BREIN has previously been active in taking fan subtitles and translations offline, and the Foundation was hoping a Dutch court Read more about NL Court rules fan subtitles on TV and movies are illegal[…]

Script kiddies pwn 1000s of Windows boxes using leaked NSA hack tools

Posted on by Robin Edgar

The NSA’s Equation Group hacking tools, leaked last Friday by the Shadow Brokers, have now been used to infect thousands of Windows machines worldwide, we’re told. On Thursday, Dan Tentler, founder of security shop Phobos Group, told The Register he’s seen rising numbers of boxes on the public internet showing signs they have DOUBLEPULSAR installed Read more about Script kiddies pwn 1000s of Windows boxes using leaked NSA hack tools[…]