December 2017 – Page 38 – news.buyenne.com

Magnetschwebetechnik: Hyperloop One stellt Geschwindigkeitsrekord auf

Neuer Chef, neuer Rekord: Virgin Hyperloop One hat in seiner Röhre in Nevada die bisher höchste Geschwindigkeit für einen Hyperloop erreicht. Zudem übernimmt Richard Branson die Leitung des Unternehmens. (Hyperloop One, Technologie)

Sata-SSD: Crucials MX500 liefert viel Leistung pro Euro

Mit der MX500 hat Crucial eine neue SSD mit Sata-Interface vorgestellt, das Modell gibt es vorerst mit 1 TByte Kapazität. Dank neuem 3D-Flash-Speicher und SMI-Controller überzeugt die Geschwindigkeit, der Preis ist attraktiv. (Crucial, Speichermedien)

Facebook Rejects 31% of All Piracy Takedown Requests

Facebook has published data on the number of piracy takedown notices the company receives. During the first half of 2017, the social media giant removed 1.8 million posts or files, following copyright holder requests. Interestingly, the company rejected nearly a third of all requests in their entirety.

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As one of the largest user-generated platforms on the Internet, Facebook has to battle a constant stream of unauthorized copyright material.

To facilitate this process, Facebook has rolled out a few anti-piracy initiatives in recent years.

The company has a “Rights Manager” tool that automatically detects infringing material and allows owners to take down or monetize this content. In addition, Facebook uses the third-party service Audible Magic to spot and remove pirated music tracks.

Thus far, little was known about the number of copyright takedown requests Facebook processes every month, but new details released in its new transparency report a few hours ago provides some context.

During the first six months of 2017, a total of 224,464 requests were received by Facebook. One request can list a single post or file, but they can contain more items. During this period, 1,818,794 items were removed from Facebook, which is roughly 10,000 per day.

“Each report submitted by a rights holder is processed by our IP Operations team, which is a global team of trained professionals who provide around-the-clock coverage in multiple languages,” Facebook writes.

“If the report is complete and valid, the team will promptly remove the reported content, typically within a day or less, and confirm that action with the rights holder that reported it.”

Another interesting statistic is that no action was taken in response to more than 31% of the 224,464 requests. This means that none of the content highlighted in these notices was removed. These rejections could be the result of an abusive, inaccurate or incomplete request, for example.

Copyright removals

In addition to takedown requests on Facebook itself, the company also shared the same data for Instagram. The numbers are roughly a third of Facebook’s, with 70,008 requests and 685,996 removed posts or items during the first half of 2017.

The social media giant stresses that it operates with the best interests of copyright holders and users in mind. For copyright holders, the takedown process is optimized and improved where possible. At the same time, the company aims to educate users who make an occasional mistake, to prevent further problems.

Facebook users who continue to post or link to pirated content repeatedly, will be dealt with eventually though. The company regularly disables accounts, removes pages, and deletes groups to stop persistent infringers.

“In addition to removing reported content, we disable the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances. Our repeat infringer policy applies to IP violations committed via Facebook profiles and Instagram accounts, including copyright, trademark and counterfeit,” the company writes.

This is likely the reason why several pages of pirate sites disappeared from the social media platform in recent years. Interestingly, there appears to be little to stop these repeat infringers from signing up again and starting over.

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Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz: Der komplizierte Weg zu weniger Hass im Netz

Wer Facebook oder Twitter rechtswidrige Inhalte nach dem NetzDG melden will, muss spezielle Formulare ausfüllen. Juristisches Fachwissen ist dabei erwünscht. Von Patrick Beuth (Twitter, Soziales Netz)

Sachsen-Anhalt: Neue Polizeieinheit soll Straftaten im Netz verfolgen

Pöbeleien und Hetze im Netz können strafbar sein. Eine neue Einheit des LKA mit speziell gesicherten Computern soll solche Straftaten jetzt auch durch Bürgerhinweise finden – und verfolgen. (Polizei, Internet)

Pöbeleien und Hetze im Netz können strafbar sein. Eine neue Einheit des LKA mit speziell gesicherten Computern soll solche Straftaten jetzt auch durch Bürgerhinweise finden - und verfolgen. (Polizei, Internet)

Autos: Toyota will künftig immer eine Elektrovariante anbieten

Kunden bei Toyota haben künftig mehr Auswahl beim Antrieb. Bis 2025 soll es jedes Auto auch in einer elektrifizierten Version geben: als Plugin-Hybrid, rein elektrisch oder mit Brennstoffzelle. (Toyota, Technologie)

Selbstvermessung: Adidas will bei Wearables aussteigen

Adidas will einem Medienbericht zufolge keine Fitness-Wearables mehr selbst herstellen und sich künftig Software widmen. Konkurrent Nike hat diesen Schritt schon vollzogen. (Adidas, Mobil)

Elektromobilität: Berlin schafft 45 Elektrobusse an

Mit zunächst 45 Elektrobussen unterschiedlicher Bauart wollen die Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) in die Elektromobilität starten. Weil auch die Ladeinfrastruktur gebaut werden muss, ist dafür ein zweistelliger Millionenbetrag fällig. (BVG, Technologie…

Ziel erreicht: BMW verkauft in einem Jahr 100.000 elektrifizierte Autos

BMW hat in diesem Jahr wie angekündigt mehr als 100.000 elektrifizierte Autos weltweit ausgeliefert. Das Unternehmen hat sich zudem die Namensrechte vom BMW i1 bis i9 sowie vom iX1 bis iX9 gesichert und plant eine Elektrooffensive. Ganz freiwillig ist …

Hackers take control of security firm’s domain, steal secret data

Attackers bypass HTTPS encryption protection by registering new TLS certificate.

A Dutch security firm recently fell victim to a well-executed attack that allowed hackers to take control of its servers and intercept clients' login credentials and confidential data.

The security firm, Fox-IT, said in a blog post published last week that the so-called "man-in-the-middle attack" lasted for 10 hours and 24 minutes, although the attack was largely contained for much of that time. The attackers carried it out by gaining unauthorized access to Fox-IT's account with a third-party domain register. Next, they changed a domain name system record that designated the IP address that corresponded to the the security company's client portal. With that, the attackers effectively hijacked control of fox-it.com and all traffic sent to it.

The attackers were able bypass protections provided by HTTPS-based encryption by first using their control of the Fox-IT domain to obtain a new transport layer security certificate. The process happened in the first 10 minutes of the attack, during which time all Fox-IT email was rerouted to the attackers. With that in place, the attackers were able to able to decrypt all incoming traffic and to cryptographically impersonate the hijacked domain. After intercepting and reading incoming traffic, the attackers forwarded it to Fox-IT in an attempt to prevent company engineers from detecting the attack.

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