Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested.
Online streaming and visits to torrent sites continues to increase with new data suggesting global piracy rose by 1.6 per cent last year. According to digital firm MUSO, there were over 300 billion visits to piracy sites in 2017. Most of these views came from people trying to stream illegally but MUSO also saw a […]
Reddit has deleted hundreds of Russian troll accounts, but the links they shared remain, forming a digital trail of the Internet Research Agency’s actions on the platform. https://media.wired.com/photos/5aa1bfd5052a533488ac2d42/master/pass/RedditIRATroll.jpg
A sex-streaming giant has announced that it will collect data on anyone accessing its porn stash – but will not record their sexual preferences. Read more MindGeek – the biggest internet pornography company in the world – will collect information, including users’ addresses and ages, under new age-verification laws. The new Digital Economy Act means […]
Fitness tracking apps have inadvertently revealed the locations of secret US military sites in the world’s most remote locations. However, it isn’t the first time technological blunders have given away valuable American secrets. In light of the embarrassing setback for US clandestine operations, RT.com looks back at some of the most unfortunate security breaches in […]
Thomson Reuters Vice President Mike Pence met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for talks on Monday, but Palestinians have boycotted the trip. Pence, an evangelical Christian who has spoken about Christian persecution in the Middle East in the past, will not be Bethlehem, a popular spot for Christians, amid the protests. The US and Israel […]
Until ad networks vet what comes through more closely, those redirect ads aren’t going anywhere. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a53ef83346c5123f8921e05/master/pass/PopUpAds-FeatureArt-898627346.jpg
The Pirate Bay and other major torrent websites could be dealt a hammer blow next year as the crackdown against online piracy continues. The Pirate Bay is the world’s leading torrent portal, and for almost 15 years has been helping online pirates access free movie and TV downloads. However, one big change to the internet […]
Google’s ongoing quest to curb fake news now includes sites that are less than honest about their home turf. The company has updated its Google News guidelines to forbid sites that “misrepresent or conceal their country of origin” or otherwise are aimed at people in another country “under false premises.” A Russian site trying to […]
Enlarge (credit: BGPMon) Traffic sent to and from Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft was briefly routed through a previously unknown Russian Internet provider Wednesday under circumstances researchers said was suspicious and intentional. The unexplained incident involving the Internet’s Border Gateway Protocol is the latest to raise troubling questions about the trust and reliability of communications […]
(credit: Yuri Samoilov/Flickr) A surprisingly big number of top-name websites—Facebook and PayPal among them—recently tested positive for a critical, 19-year-old vulnerability that allowed attackers to decrypt encrypted data and sign communications using the sites’ secret encryption key. The vulnerability in the transport layer security protocol for Web encryption was disclosed in 1998 when researcher Daniel […]
