Customers of the Elisa and Saunalahti internet service providers can no longer use those internet connections to visit The Pirate Bay website. Helsinki District Court ordered the ISPs to block the Pirate Bay last October, but the block went into effect Monday.

As of Monday evening, at least one Pirate Bay mirror site in operation on servers outside Sweden was reportedly not blocked to Elisa and Saunalahti customers. Meanwhile, one domain name that previously linked to The Pirate Bay, but now takes users to the website of Electronic Frontier Finland was blocked for Elisa and Saunalahti subscribers.

An e-voting machine that is to be used for the presidential election this year has been found to have "anomalies" such as failing to record votes or logging the wrong vote and freezing, according to a government report.

Specifically, the DS200 failed in some cases to record when the touch screen was calibrated or the system was powered on or off, failed to read votes correctly when a ballot was inserted at an angle, and accepted a voted ballot without recording the ballot on its internal counter and without recording the marks, according to the report.

Adobe will fix a slew of security flaws in Reader and Acrobat, including the critical 3D vulnerabilities that were discovered in December, as part of its quarterly update.

Adobe's quarterly updates will include fixes for two vulnerabilities that Adobe patched on Dec. 16 in the Windows versions of Acrobat and Reader 9 and earlier as part of an emergency update.

A breach-of-contract lawsuit filed yesterday against Grooveshark means that all the major recording labels are suing the popular music streaming service.

The free-music service has become a dartboard of late for the recording industry's lawsuits. Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group filed a lawsuit last month accusing the company of copyright infringement.

In a leaked letter sent to Spain’s outgoing President, the US ambassador to the country warned that as punishment for not passing a SOPA-style file-sharing site blocking law, Spain risked being put on a United States trade blacklist.

More than 100 leaked cables showed that the US had helped draft new Spanish copyright legislation and had heavily influenced the decisions of both the government and opposition.

Solomont’s threat was that should Spain not pass the Sinde Law (described by some as the Spanish SOPA) then the country would be degraded further and placed on the Priority Watch List. This serious step would mean that Spain was in breach of trade agreements and could be subjected to a range of “retaliatory actions”.

Oh PayPal... will you never learn how to resolve a situation without having everyone hate you? Mere weeks after enduring the wrath of the internet resulting from its war with Regresty.com, PayPal has once again hit viral vitriol gold. This time, a seller claims that she's out $2,500 and an antique violin after the company told the buyer to destroy the instrument.

Alas, someone at PayPal apparently is an expert in old violins, because the company determined the instrument was "counterfeit" and told the buyer he needed to destroy it in order to get his refund.

This is more than a new look, though, as many of the browser's features have been stripped out. This includes Firefox Sync, which allows seamless synchronization of personal data like bookmarks, passwords, and browsing history, and Mozilla's popular add-ons.

More HTML5 code is supported, Google's SPDY protocol for faster site loading can now be tested, Tilt support allows for 3D Web page visualization, and the HTML5 video controls have been redesigned.

The newly published Law imposes restrictions on visiting and/or using foreign websites by Belarusian citizens and residents. Under this new Law, the violation of these rules is recognized as a misdemeanor and is punished by fines of varied amounts, up to the equivalent of US$125.

It appears that business requests from Belarus cannot be served over the Internet if the service provider is using online services located outside of the country. The tax authorities, together with the police and secret police, are authorized to initiate, investigate, and prosecute such violations.

For example, suppose someone in Belarus buys something from Amazon, which is not a Belarusian company and thus is not registered in Belarus. The transaction is illegal, and so the Belarusian Attorney General would send a note to Amazon informing it that it is violating national law and might be sued.

Iranian naval commander Mahmoud Mousavi was quoted as saying the missile was equipped with the "latest technology" and "intelligent systems".

Tehran reacted angrily last week to reports that Western nations were planning to impose further sanctions targeting Iran's oil and financial sectors.

Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, which links the Gulf - and its oil-producing states - to the Indian Ocean.

Further analysis of the Duqu Trojan has revealed that the platform that was used to develop Stuxnet and Duqu may have been used to create similar Trojans, according to Kaspersky Lab.

Stuxnet took advantage of multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, including an escalation-of-privilege flaw and exploited Microsoft's AutoRun functionality to spread across computers via infected USB drives.

Duqu also took advantage of a zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows kernel.

Gostev said "with a fair degree of certainty" that the Tilded platform had been created around the end of 2007 or early 2008 and underwent significant changes in the summer and autumn of 2010.