Month: September 2017

Mit dem Fall Creators Update wird auch Windows Defender ATP besser - zugunsten des Sicherheitsadmins. Alerts werden in einer zentralen Ansicht dargestellt und Security-Stack-Werte können in einem Dashboard angezeigt werden. (Microsoft, Server)

Windparks machen einen professionellen Eindruck, doch bei der IT-Sicherheit hapert es leider. Recherchen von Internetwache.org und Golem.de zeigen eine Menge Schwachstellen und ein Chaos bei der Zuständigkeit. Von Sebastian Neef und Tim Philipp Schäfers (Security, Server)

Neben dem Mi Mix 2 hat Xiaomi auch das Mi Note 3 vorgestellt: Das Smartphone kommt mit ähnlicher Ausstattung wie das Mi 6, aber mit größerem Display und etwas schwächerem Prozessor. Die Preise beginnen bei umgerechnet 320 Euro. (Xiaomi, Smartphone)

Das größte Autoland steigt um. Die chinesische Regierung will keine Autos mehr, die mit fossilen Treibstoffen fahren. Ein Datum für den Umstieg auf Elektroautos steht noch nicht fest. (Elektroauto, Technologie)

Mit dem 11 nm Low Power Plus genannten Verfahren bietet Samsung ab 2018 einen verbesserten Herstellungsprozess an. Er ist für Smartphone-Chips gedacht, hat aber mehr mit 14 nm denn mit 10 nm zu tun. (Samsung, Smartphone)

360-Grad-Kamera und acht Mikrofone: Meeting Owl sieht aus wie eine kleine Eule und wird in die Mitte des Konferenztisches gestellt. Von dort aus kann das Gerät Gesichter und Stimmen rundum erkennen und automatisch auf Sprecher umschalten. (Startup, Google)

Vodafone Deutschland kündigt den Ausbau seines gesamten Kabelnetzes auf Docsis 3.1 und 1 GBit/s an. Auf dem Land sucht das Unternehmen Kooperationen mit Kommunen, die Glasfaser ausbauen. (Vodafone, Glasfaser)

Xiaomi hat das Mi Mix 2 vorgestellt: Wie der Vorgänger hat das Smartphone wieder ein Display, das an drei Seiten bis zum Rand geht. Verbessert hat der Hersteller die Kamera und die Audiowiedergabe - unsere größten Kritikpunkte beim ersten Mi Mix. (Xiaomi, Smartphone)

In September 2015, U.S. authorities announced action against a pair of sites involved in music piracy.

ShareBeast.com and AlbumJams.com were allegedly responsible for the distribution of “a massive library” of popular albums and tracks. Both were accused of offering thousands of tracks before their official release dates.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) placed their now familiar seizure notice on both domains, with the RIAA claiming ShareBeast was the largest illegal file-sharing site operating in the United States. Indeed, the site’s IP addresses at the time indicated at least some hosting taking place in Illinois.

“This is a huge win for the music community and legitimate music services. Sharebeast operated with flagrant disregard for the rights of artists and labels while undermining the legal marketplace,” RIAA Chairman & CEO Cary Sherman commented at the time.

“Millions of users accessed songs from Sharebeast each month without one penny of compensation going to countless artists, songwriters, labels and others who created the music.”

Now, a full two years later, former Sharebeast operator Artur Sargsyan has pleaded guilty to one felony count of criminal copyright infringement, admitting to the unauthorized distribution and reproduction of over 1 billion copies of copyrighted works.

“Through Sharebeast and other related sites, this defendant profited by illegally distributing copyrighted music and albums on a massive scale,” said U. S. Attorney John Horn.

“The collective work of the FBI and our international law enforcement partners have shut down the Sharebeast websites and prevented further economic losses by scores of musicians and artists.”

The Department of Justice says that from 2012 to 2015, 29-year-old Sargsyan used ShareBeast as a pirate music repository, infringing works produced by Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, Beyonce, Kanye West, and Justin Bieber, among others. He linked to that content from Newjams.net and Albumjams.com, two other sites under his control.

The DoJ says that Sargsyan was informed at least 100 times that there was infringing content on ShareBeast but despite the warnings, the content remained available. When those warnings produced no results, the FBI – assisted by law enforcement in the UK and the Netherlands – seized servers used by Sargsyan to distribute the material.

Brad Buckles, EVP, Anti-Piracy at the RIAA, welcomed the guilty plea.

“Sharebeast and its related sites represented the most popular network of infringing music sites operated out of the United States. The network was responsible for providing millions of downloads of popular music files including unauthorized pre-release albums and tracks.This illicit activity was a gut-punch to music creators who were paid nothing by the service,” Buckles said.

“We are incredibly grateful for the government’s commitment to protecting the rights of artists and labels. We especially thank the dedicated agents of the FBI who painstakingly unraveled this criminal enterprise, and U.S. Attorney John Horn and his team for their work and diligence in seeing this case to its successful conclusion.”

Sargsyan, of Glendale, California, will be sentenced December 4 before U.S. District Judge Timothy C. Batten.

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

This week we have three newcomers in our chart.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is the most downloaded movie.

The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are Web-DL/Webrip/HDRip/BDrip/DVDrip unless stated otherwise.

RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart.

This week’s most downloaded movies are:

Movie Rank	Rank last week	Movie name	IMDb Rating / Trailer
Most downloaded movies via torrents
1	(…)	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales	6.9 / trailer
2	(1)	Hitman’s Bodyguard	7.2 / trailer
3	(2)	Wonder Woman	8.2 / trailer
4	(3)	The Mummy 2017	5.8 / trailer
5	(…)	The Big Sick	6.9 / trailer
6	(4)	Despicable Me 3	6.4 / trailer
7	(5)	Baywatch	5.7 / trailer
8	(…)	Kidnap	6.9 / trailer
9	(6)	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2	8.0 / trailer
10	(8)	Spider-Man: Homecoming (HDTS)	8.0 / trailer

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.