Sony said it believed the intruders collected the log-in credentials from another source, not from Sony’s networks, and were able to gain access to the Sony accounts because customers used the same credentials with their Sony accounts.

He noted that a “small fraction” of the accounts showed activity after they were breached, but that the intruders couldn’t access credit card account information. Sony had since locked all of the accounts accessed through the attack until customers can be notified to change their passwords.

The site encourages internet users to reconfigure their computers to use BlockAid’s DNS servers. That way, if a domain name used by a piracy web site is seized by law enforcement, BlockAid will be able to direct surfers to the original owner’s IP address more or less transparently.

In May, DNS experts including Paul Vixie, Dan Kaminsky and now-ICANN chair Steve Crocker said that the Protect-IP Act in the US would persuade many users to switch to offshore DNS servers.

The group mistakenly demanded money from the nonprofit organization Musikpiraten for publishing five Creative Commons licensed tracks. Musikpiraten is baffled by the false claim and is considering filing a complaint for copyfraud.

They target schools and kids’ community centers, charge charities for the singing of Christmas carols without a license, and even crash weddings if they have to.

“GEMA’s claim that they hold these rights is demonstrably false. All artists have explicitly declared that they are neither members of GEMA nor of any foreign royalties collection society. The demands are therefore clearly a copyfraud,” Christian Hufgard, chairman of Musikpiraten explains.

Recently, many people from Belgium have been joining The Pirate Bay's and Telecomix's IRC channels, asking for help with the Telecomix DNS, saying that it doesn't work to access www.thepiratebay.org. This is true. The court was very specific in its order, which was to block the domains www.thepiratebay.org, www.thepiratebay.net, www.thepiratebay.com, www.thepiratebay.nu, www.thepiratebay.se, www.piratebay.no, and www.ripthepiratebay.com, or else face a daily penalty of 1000 EUR for every day when defendants do not implement such 'DNS-blocking' in their DNS-servers'. So, obviously in defiance of that, people testing their DNS servers go to the domain www.thepiratebay.org — except, thepiratebay doesn't have the www domain turned on.

A federal court recently issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting a website operator from displaying the only available photograph of a painting entitled Salvator Mundi, which was recently attributed to Italian Renaissance painter Leonardo da Vinci.

No one else has ever photographed the restored Painting and any future exhibition will prohibit photography. The copyright in the Photograph is held by SMLLC.

Prior to filing suit, SMLLC sent a cease and desist letter. Sotka replied that the image she uploaded was in the public domain: “It is most likely that [SMLLC is] not familiar with US copyright law, but should they continue with the unlawful claim to copyright of the public domain image... it would give me some satisfaction to give it away....”

According to SMLLC, the photographer had to make “countless” creative judgments that “conveyed a specific artistic impression of the Painting.”

Mozilla has postponed its plan to prompt Firefox 3.6 users to upgrade to the latest version of the open-source Web browser to make sure its servers are up to snuff.

"The previously scheduled 3.6-to-7.0.1 advertised update is now postponed while we make sure our server capacity is sufficient for release," said release manager Christian Legnitto in a blog post.

Firefox 7 is one of the new series of rapid-release versions of the browser, with smaller updates now coming every six weeks rather than a dramatically different version coming every year to a year and a half.

It is hoped switching to Chromesque updates in the background will eradicate "update fatigue" creeping in following Mozilla's decision to pump out upgrades more frequently.

In August, however, Baker revealed Mozilla's rapid release cycle was causing problems for enterprise customers. Enterprise customers must go through cycles of testing to ensure that the software and add-ons that they rely on work with the new version of the browser, and re-code where needed.

Only in June, Mozilla's Asa Dotzler handed browser rivals an easy victory by claiming that the enterprise had never, and would never, be a focus for Firefox.

Mozilla issued a statement in response to the sound of jaws collectively dropping that made it clear the group stood behind Dotzler, part of the original Firefox team and founder of Mozilla's Quality Assurance (QA) and Testing Program.

Gavin “Tex” Warren reveals how he was instructed to boost statistics, link piracy to drug trafficking, and manipulate the police in order to secure more interest for the war on piracy.

“Funded solely by MPAA, AFACT lobbies hard for changes to Australian law and enhance the sexiness of their case by making vague references to links to terrorism. Sometimes not so vague. I was instructed to tell police officers that the profit margins were greater than dealing heroin. It was bizarre. A twisted logic that AFACT spewed out with monotonous regularity,” Warren says.

Contrary to what many might be thinking, particularly after comments made by Oracle co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison two weeks ago, Solaris 11 will be enthusiastically supported on both Sparc and x86 platforms – and not just Oracle's own x86 platforms, but those made by others.

"I don't care if our commodity x86 business goes to zero," he said "We don't make any money on it. We have no interest in selling other peoples' IP. Commodity x86 includes Intel IP, and Microsoft IP. We don't make money selling that. Sun sold that stuff, and we are phasing out that business. We have no interest in it whatsoever. We have interest in selling systems that include our IP. That's how we are going to drive the profitability of our overall hardware business – eventually."

Lori Dorn, who recently had a bilateral mastectomy, and has tissue expanders installed. She has a card that explains the details of this, and why it can set off airport security.

Of course, she did set off an alarm at JFK... and then the TSA both refused to let her show the card explaining the details, but also required her to be physically groped by the TSA -- with them loudly threatening her that she wouldn't fly otherwise.

In a separate interview with the NY Times, she notes that her breasts still hurt, and she was worried about the pain of the patdown, and that she was never offered the option of a patdown in a private area.