Reliance blocks access to torrentz.eu

Well renowned ISP reliance communications has blocked access to 
http://torrentz.eu/
http://thepiratebay.se/
http://pastebin.com/
and may be some more sites.
when I visited the above pages   it shows the following message

"

The URL you requested has been blocked as per DOT guidelines

The page you have requested has been blocked, because the URL is banned.1"


Prior to this reliance has blocked access to file sharing sites like filesonic and others.
A big question---> whether this blocks are really legal as per dot guidelines or 
reliance own interest to stop piracy for its movies to earn more revenue or it could be to limit downloads.
 next what ? BLOCK INTERNET !!!!!!!!
This would surely be beneficial to the ISPs but also intimates normal users how to bypass this restrictions and making normal users more vulnerable to cyber attacks.

$253 million worth music files compromised in Sony hack

The hack on Sony's widely used PlayStation Network was widely reported, last year and it managed to join the ranks of some of the other big headlines, last year. Sure enough, the PSN hack compromised the personal details of some 77 million registered online gamers and the hackers also gained access to credit card data. But, what followed close on the heels of the PSN hack went seemingly unreported, until now. The Daily Mail reports that almost around the same time as the PSN hack, Sony suffered yet another breach to its long, distinguished music catalogue, which contains titles from some noted artists, like Jimi Hendrix, Paul Simon, Olly Murs, the Foo Fighters and Avril Lavigne, all of which were compromised. However, the shocker that the report gave was that the hackers also managed to break into the entire roster of Michael Jackson’s back catalog of published music, as well as previously unreleased tracks. Sony, reportedly had purchased the Jackson catalog in 2010, a year after the singing legend's demise, after paying £250million for the seven-year rights to the songs.

  

The report further reveals that a total of 50,000 songs are known to have been compromised, making this the biggest hack in the music industry, so far. The report pegs the entire loss to be around $253 million. After discovering the hack, Sony informed  the Jackson estate, but did not make the incident public, since no customer data had been compromised.  "The contract with Jackson's estate also allowed them to release 10 new albums, including material from studio sessions produced during the making of some of the star's biggest albums. The singer, who died in June 2009 at the age of 50, had recorded unreleased duets with artists ranging from the late Freddie Mercury and Black Eyed Peas singer Will.i.am," further added the report. 

Reportedly, Sony discovered that its music catalog was broken into during routine checking of social networking sites, Jackson fan sites and hacking forums. The reported quoted a source close to the company as saying that all that the company purcased from the Jackson estate was broked into by the hackers. Sony, then checked their systems only to discover the breach, with a degree of sophistication. Sony, reportedly then "identified the weakness and plugged the gap."

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Yahoo to sue Facebook ?

Facebook has a new $5 billion credit deal, doubling a previous $2.5 billion credit agreement as it prepares for an initial public offering.

The social networking company based in Menlo Park, Calif., said in a regulatory filing Wednesday that it has also signed a $3 billion bridge-loan facility to pay taxes on restricted stock units in connection with its IPO. Those are employee shares that will vest when the company goes public.

Facebook, which has 845 million monthly active users by its own calculations, also disclosed that fake or duplicate accounts may represent about 5 percent to 6 percent of that figure.

And it gave some new revenue insights by geography. Facebook said in the filing that it is seeing rapid revenue growth in Brazil and in India. The company had 27 million monthly users in Brazil, up nearly fourfold from a year earlier but accounting for only 30 percent to 40 percent of the country's Internet-connected population. Its presence in China, where Facebook access is restricted, is nearly nonexistent.

Facebook's recent patent spat with Yahoo is also in the updated filing. Yahoo Inc. sent a letter to Facebook on Feb. 27 alleging copyright infringement and threatening to sue. Facebook said in the filing that it is still investigating Yahoo's claims and that Yahoo has yet to file a lawsuit.

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150+ Sites Hacked by Pak Cyber Pyrates #opFreedomPalestine

Recently it was found that 150+ websites were defaced by Pak Cyber Pyrates in the name of 

--> #opFreedomPalestine. All the websites show the same page with a video stating reason for it as killings of Innocent people.

Here is the link to video which was posted on the websites http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7VKwtxeYiFs.

The list of websites are:-

http://www.freewebhostx2.com/root2.html

http://freewebhosting360.com/

http://myfreewebhost.net/index.html

http://columbiadubrin.com/

http://dwblower.net/index.html

http://russlk-book.com/

http://shop4us.freewebhostx2.com/

http://www.extremely-hot.com/

http://www.gimme-gimme.info/

http://www.intecmechanical.net/

http://www.millionaire-maker-matrix.com/

http://www.myfreesafelist.com/

http://www.mysupersafelist.com/

http://www.mysupersolos.com/

http://www.profit-helper.com/

http://www.promo-pal.com/

http://www.casheureka.com/

http://www.cashinhandtraffic.com/

http://www.daviscookeproperties.com.au/

http://www.evieb.com/

http://www.keswickislandguesthouse.com.au/

http://www.myfreesafelist.com/

http://www.newsfromjules.com/

http://www.supersolosandcash.com/

http://www.whitsundaymobilemarketing.com.au/

http://www.adjockeys.com/

http://www.adpirate.net/

http://www.dynamite-safelist.com/

http://www.explosivesafelist.com/

http://www.expresssafelist.com/

http://www.the-traffic-secret.com/

http://www.ultimate-safelist.com/

http://www.explosivesafelist.com/

http://www.speedwaysafelist.com/

http://www.themailbagsafelist.com/

http://www.trafficprolist.com/

http://www.bestbeatmaker.com/

http://www.listbuildingtragedies.com/

http://www.media-traffic-meltdown-bonus.com/

http://www.onlineshedplans.com/

http://www.bucketsofbanners.com/

http://www.electriccigaretteshop.com/

http://www.expertsstrategiesrevealed.com/

http://www.holidaysbythesea.co.uk/

http://www.internetshoppingcentre.com/

http://www.makeyourfirstebook.com/

http://www.rainingtraffic.com/

http://www.responderseries.com/

http://www.skegnessholidaycaravans.com/

http://www.splashpagemaker.com/

http://www.steveayling.com/

http://www.teblaster.com/

http://www.thebigpinkc.com/

http://www.trafficalternative.com/

http://www.trafficdodgems.com/

http://www.whatisthispaymentfor.com/

http://www.wishafriend.com/

http://www.electriccigaretteshop.co.uk/

http://www.expertsstrategiesrevealed.com/

http://www.holidaybythesea.co.uk/

http://www.holidaysbythesea.co.uk/

http://www.rainingtraffic.com/

http://www.responderseries.com/

http://www.teblaster.com/

http://www.tetips.com/

http://www.thebaddestduckonthe.net/

http://www.trafficattheraces.com/

http://www.trafficdodgems.com/

http://www.whatisatrafficexchange.com/

http://www.wishafriend.com/

http://www.1013.instantmultiplier.com/

http://www.12.instantmultiplier.com/

http://www.1280.instantmultiplier.com/

http://www.15.instantmultiplier.com/

http://www.1513.instantmultiplier.com/

http://www.1555.viralpiggybank.com/

http://www.206.instantmultiplier.com/

http://www.375.madmultiplier.com/

http://www.529.instantmultiplier.com/

http://www.621.madmultiplier.com/

http://www.653.instantmultiplier.com/

http://www.68.instantmultiplier.com/

http://www.7.madmultiplier.com/

http://www.724.instantmultiplier.com/

http://www.816.instantmultiplier.com/

http://www.82.madmultiplier.com/

http://www.98.madmultiplier.com/

http://www.acestraffic.com/

http://www.become.com/

http://www.exava.com/

http://www.list-adexchange.com/

http://www.listrecruiter.com/

http://www.madmultiplier.com/

http://www.monstertrafficstore.com/

http://www.my-freebie-zone.com/

http://www.printers.bizrate.com/

http://www.traffic-casino.com/

http://www.traffic-supreme.com/

http://www.viral-trafficmaster.com/

http://www.viralpiggybank.com/

http://www.acestraffic.com/

http://www.calibex.com/

http://www.dynamitelist.com/

http://www.ebay.com/

http://www.iciciband.com/

http://www.instantmultiplier.com/

http://www.ljmods.acestraffic.com/

http://www.my-freebie-zone.com/

http://www.nextag.com/

http://www.totalprotect.com/

http://www.traffic-casino.com/

http://www.viralpiggybank.com/

http://www.warfaretraffic.com/

http://www.bradwebb.net/

http://www.jayepause.com/

http://www.jvbigbreak.com/

http://www.listbuildingemails.com/

http://www.myreikitouch.com/

http://www.solocells.com/

http://www.state-of-the-art-mailer.com/

http://www.state-of-the-art-network.com/

http://www.stateoftheartsites.com/

http://www.getcontestburnernow.com/

http://www.myreikitouch.com/

http://www.state-of-the-art-mailer.com/

http://www.state-of-the-art-sites.com/

http://www.ns2.stridehost.com/

http://www.objectalpha.com/

http://www.africanistacoffee.com/

http://www.oshibori-towel.com/

http://www.anewmeministry.com/

http://www.oshibori-us.com/

http://www.aztest.com/ 

http://www.oshibori-us.oshibori-towel.com/

http://www.billing.stridehost.com/

http://www.restaurantrefreshingtowels.com/

http://www.britlandcattery.us/

http://www.rft3.oshibori-towel.com/

http://www.chiboob.com/

http://www.sample4.com/

http://www.consoleadmin.com/

http://www.snipeunlimited.com/

http://www.gogenics.com/ 

http://www.stridehost.com/

http://www.janosandsonconstruction.com/

http://www.uswomenconnect.org/

http://www.katiemckinney.com/

http://www.wpguru.stridehost.com/

http://www.mypcclub.org/

http://www.zockystudios.com/

http://www.ns1.stridehost.com/

http://9211news.com/

Indian Cyber Hunters have recently hacked the following domains:


http://mymcdonaldscoupons.ca/
http://couponsforwalmart.ca/
http://amazoncoupon.ca/
http://whichmobile.ca/
http://darkknightrisesrumors.com/
http://iraqinewsdinar.com/


claiming that they are back in action;cyber Hunters have targeted a handful of websites defacing it.
On visiting the website you would find the above image with the message of Hacked.  

50+ Indian Sites Hacked By P@KhTuN~72 & Sizzling Soul

Recent post found showed such pictures of   http://windshieldprofessionals.in/ getting hacked by  P@KhTuN~72 & Sizzling Soul  as reported on mirror  -->  http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9304.

Typical post which reflected various sites that got hacked :-

Mass Deface 50+ Indian Sites Hacked By P@KhTuN~72 & Sizzling Soul

Its March... & after few days ......

P@KhTuN~72 's Birthday........ I mean my Birthday ......

A Birthday Gift for Indians ...lolzzzz 

Video Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7IwOzxlQho

Mirrors:

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9304

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9221

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9302

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9301

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9297

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9222

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9225

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9231

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9216

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9296

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9293

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9292

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9259

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9257

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9253

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9248

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9247

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9244

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9243

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9239

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9236

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9235

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9233

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9232

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9227

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9226

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9224

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9223

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9217

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9299

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9300

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9290

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9291

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9294

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9295

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9298

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9251

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9252

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9256

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9258

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9289

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9242

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9245

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9246

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9249

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9250

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9234

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9237

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9238

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9240

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9241

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9218

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9220

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9222

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9225

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9231

http://www.z-z0ne.tk/defacements/?id=9216

It seems that this hacker groups are getting more vigorous day by day as the frequency of the hacks and the sophistication of the tools used is increasingly.   

Wikileaks:Journalists Paid to Private Intelligence Firm With Info

Journalists were paid to provide information to the intelligence firm Stratfor, according to the latest  tranche of company emails leaked by WikiLeaks.

The firm courted media outlets in almost 50 countries, according to the documents.

Stratfor largely had significant contacts in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.  In 2009 and 2010, the firm signed contracts with the Azerbaijan Press Agency, Serbia’s Politika and B92, HotNews in Romania, The Baltic Times,Georgia’s The Messenger, and the Georgia Times, Moldova’s Jurnal Trust Media, Macedonia’sMakFax, Poland’s Warsaw Business Journal, the European Union’s EurActiv, Kyrgyzstan’s The Central Times of Asia, and more.

Among the contributors was the English-language newspaper Kyiv Post, an OCCRP partner.  Editor Brian Bonner says his newspaper provided the Texas-based firm with information and sometimes published their analysis reports on their site.

“Stratfor, while it bills itself exotically as a private strategic intelligence service, is nothing more from what I can see than a paid subscription service that employs a worldwide network of contributors, analysts, informants that collect open-source information and analyze it for their paying customers, which include businesses, governments and think tanks,” he wrote in an email to OCCRP.

Bonner maintains that working with Stratfor does not run contrary to journalistic norms.

“If Stratfor did anything illegal or unethical, I don't know about it -- and it would cause us to review our partnership with them,” he wrote.

Bonner said the information his journalists provided “valuable on-the-ground information, but nothing that any good, well-connected journalist working in Ukraine didn't know or couldn't discover.”

Stratfor’s agreements with media in so many countries were a big cause for concern, said WikiLeaks when they released the list on February 27.

“While it is acceptable for journalists to swap information or be paid by other media organisations, because Stratfor is a private intelligence organisation that services governments and private clients these relationships are corrupt or corrupting.”

But Jo Jakobsen, a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology who has spent much of his career studying Risk Analysis firms, says risk analysis firms of all stripes, especially those which are not focused on one country or region, “get sources on the ground” including journalists.

“The impression you get from Wikileaks is that this Stratfor firm does a lot of shady things, corruption, and all that, but I don’t really see that, because paying sources on the ground is not a matter of corruption, necessarily.  Not that I know all the details, but newspapers do that as well, as a matter of necessity.”

He says Stratfor, which he characterized as a medium to small sized company,  portrays itself as a semi-CIA type intelligence agency, but it is not.

“If you’re going to be a CIA type organization, it requires a lot of resources, and Stratfor just doesn’t have a lot of resources.  As far as I understand, the attack on Stratfor’s computer system, was really down to Stratfor not implementing standard ordinary protection, because it cost too much.”

One problem journalists face working for private intelligence firms is that it is not clear who the firms themselves are working for.  They may be providing data for predatory businessmen, corrupt officials or even organized crime groups.

Risk analysis and business intelligence firms often court journalists, says Brant Houston, the the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Chair in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting and former executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE).

“There’s no question that intelligence firms are interested in good reporters because they work quickly, they track things down very quickly and given what they’re normally paid they usually don’t cost that much if they have the potential to hire them,” he told OCCRP.

Houston said the problem lies in the lack of a sustainable business model in which journalists can be paid decently for their work.

“Journalists have been underpaid and undervalued for the work that they do, particularly investigative journalists, there comes to be a point where they have to work for other people to make ends meet.”

But, he says, crossing over into the intelligence industry can cost a publication’s credibility or strain relationships with governments.  If a newspaper choses to do it, they must be transparent and should have firewalls or other means of separating the journalism from the corporate intelligence, he counsels.

“And in the end the public will decide how satisfied they are with that.  And the second question is will the government of the country that you’re in be satisfied or will they see you as someone working for another government’s intelligence organization.”

Many organizations spurned Statfor’s offers. According to the documents, Stratfor tried but could not find partners in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, and they had a difficult time finding partners inLatin America. Only Colombia’s El Espectador signed a contract in 2009. Brazil’s O Tempo,Argentina’s La Nacion, and Peru’s La Republica were not interested.

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