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California: One Step Closer To Outlawing Revenge Porn

California: One Step Closer To Outlawing Revenge Porn It's official: you'd better not start up a cheap hosting site where people can post nude pictures of exes and enemies in order to exact revenge. It's on its way to becoming against the law, after the California State Senate passed a…

Khristen FossAugust 16, 2013

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IBM Wins Massive $1 Billion Government Contract

IBM Wins Massive $1 Billion Government Contract Today is a great day for IBM. The company has just won its biggest U.S. cloud-based government contract. The new IBM contract is valued at $1 billion. In other words, the pressure for IBM's cloud team is on. IBM recently lost a $600…

HarrietteAugust 15, 2013

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Dalai Lama’s Chinese Website Hacked, Visitors At Risk

Dalai Lama's Chinese Website Hacked Hacking of your cheap hosting website is a real threat, no matter who you are. That's right, even the Dalai Lama has fallen victim. An expert is betting the viruses that are infecting all visitors were put there to keep watch on those human rights…

Khristen FossAugust 13, 2013

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Cheap Hosting Company Freedom Hosting

Freedom Hosting In case you missed our earlier story regarding the shutdown of hidden sites hosted by the anonymous and cheap hosting company Freedom Hosting, here's the background: malicious Javascript code was found to be embedded in many of the sites hosted by Freedom Hosting, relying on the Tor network…

Khristen FossAugust 12, 2013

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Lavabit Shuts Down For Good – Causes Snowball Effect

Lavabit Shuts Down For Good What happens if you have been told by the government to hand over encrypted email information? What if that information is included in the same email service that Edward Snowden used? If your name is Ladar Levinson and you are the owner of Levabit LLC,…

HarrietteAugust 9, 2013

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Tor User? Here’s What you Need to Know

Tor Insight We brought you the story of the hidden websites hosting abusive child pornography disappearing from Tor earlier this week, and the problems with Tor's email hosting. It's odd, as Tor was designed to allow users to fly under the radar, keeping their identities a secret and allowing them…

Khristen FossAugust 7, 2013