
Notfall-Update: Tor-Nutzer über kritische Firefox-Lücke attackiert
Eine kritische Firefox-Schwachstelle betrifft auch den Tor-Browser und Thunderbird. Patches stehen bereit, kommen für einige Tor-Nutzer aber zu spät. (Sicherheitslücke, Firefox)

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Eine kritische Firefox-Schwachstelle betrifft auch den Tor-Browser und Thunderbird. Patches stehen bereit, kommen für einige Tor-Nutzer aber zu spät. (Sicherheitslücke, Firefox)
Während andere Hersteller – auch in Deutschland – beim autonomen Fahren weit vorn liegen, setzt Tesla auf Show-Effekte. Eine Analyse von Dirk Kunde (Autonomes Fahren, Elektroauto)
Im 58. Jahr seiner Existenz ist es wieder mal Zeit für eine Zäsur. Wohin Star Trek in der Zukunft steuert. Von Peter Osteried (Star Trek, Star Wars)
Die neue NIS2-Richtlinie bringt erweiterte Verpflichtungen in der Cybersicherheit für Unternehmen in ganz Europa. Ein praxisnaher Workshop zeigt die Integration der Anforderungen in bestehende Sicherheitskonzepte. (Golem Karrierewelt, Unternehmenssoftw…
Providers are starting to put off elective surgeries and other procedures.
More than 86 percent of healthcare providers surveyed across the US are experiencing shortages of intravenous fluids after Hurricane Helene's rampage took out a manufacturing plant in western North Carolina that makes 60 percent of the country's supply.
IV fluids are used for everything from intravenous rehydration to drug delivery. The plant also made peritoneal dialysis fluids used to treat kidney failure.
Premier, a group purchasing organization for medical supplies that counts thousands of hospitals and health systems among its members, surveyed 257 such providers earlier this week. The poll makes clear that supplies are unsurprisingly imperiled.
The RIAA has submitted its most recent overview of notorious markets to the U.S. Trade Representative, listing familiar suspects including torrent sites, cyberlockers, and stream-ripping services. The RIAA views artificial intelligence as a potential threat, but also as a source for new revenue streams and innovation.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
The artificial intelligence boom promises progress and innovation but, at the same time, it poses a threat to existing industries.
Over the past two years, dozens of lawsuits were filed against technology companies. Most of these amount to copyright infringement complaints, challenging the unauthorized use of protected works as AI training data.
The RIAA and its members are also involved in these legal battles. The music group is a driving force in lawsuits against the AI companies Udio and Suno, for example, and recently backed a lawsuit against the AI startup Anthropic.
With the strong focus on AI recently, it wouldn’t be a surprise if this topic was considered a priority. However, the RIAA’s latest ‘notorious markets’ submission to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) shows that not to be the case, as it mostly focuses on ‘older’ threats.
The RIAA’s latest submission for the USTR’s notorious markets list starts with stream-rippers. These tools allow people to download music from platforms such as YouTube and, despite their legal use cases, the music group considers stream-rippers a prime copyright infringement tool.
There are dozens of popular stream-rippers including y2mate.com, which reportedly has one of the largest user bases. In the past, Y2mate voluntarily blocked visitors from the US, UK, and elsewhere. However, that’s no longer the case.
“While Y2mate’s traffic has been declining globally due to the many site-blocking orders, the site has still received hundreds of millions of visits in the last 12 months, making it extremely popular globally. Previously, the site had voluntarily limited access from the U.S., UK, Germany, and France, but these restrictions have been lifted,” the submission notes.
The RIAA goes on to list other typical pirate threats, including torrent indexers, direct music download sites, and cyberlockers. Among these, we find familiar names such as The Pirate Bay, 1337x, Newalbumreleases, Dbree, and Rapidgator.
Over the past two years, the music industry group listed several dedicated AI companies among its top threats. For example, in 2022, AI-powered music extractors and mixers were called out, followed by an AI vocal cloning category last year.
In 2024, no specific AI services are mentioned. RIAA does highlight that hosting platforms such as Krakenfiles are abused to store ‘infringing’ AI training data (i.e. pirated music), which remains a key concern.
At the same time, however, the music group also recognizes that AI opens the door to new innovation options, recognizing that the technology can offer new revenue sources.
“[T]he record labels continue to work tirelessly to develop additional innovations and sources of revenue, including use of responsibly trained AI technology to expand artist creativity, reach, and user engagement,” the submission reads.
In addition to direct threats, RIAA also calls out several intermediaries. For example, hosting companies PRQ, FlokiNET and DDoS-Guard are referenced. These companies are accused of hosting pirate sites and other criminal activity, despite complaints.
PRQ was launched by Pirate Bay founders. While these are no longer involved, as far as we know, RIAA mentions this association in its submission.
“PRQ is a Swedish hosting service headquartered in Stockholm and created by two of the founders of ThePirateBay. It offers offshore hosting options and has consistently hosted criminal content,” RIAA writes.
Last year, RIAA also listed the domain name registration company Njalla, which was started by Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde. This company is no longer mentioned in RIAA’s latest report, but other domain name companies do get a mention.
RIAA writes that it’s hard to get accurate domain name registration information from companies such as NameCheap and Tucows, as was pointed out in a recent IFPI report. This makes it difficult for rightsholders to identify the operators of pirate sites.
NameCheap and Tucows are American companies, so these are not eligible for a “notorious markets” listing. However, the callout does add pressure, which might be the main reason why they are mentioned.
In conclusion, RIAA’s latest USTR submission doesn’t list many surprises. Many of the targeted sites and services have been called out before. The absence of specific AI threats is most surprising, but with rapidly evolving technology and developing legal jurisprudence, that might just be temporary.
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The RIAA’s full 2024 list of “notorious” sites and services can be found below, and the full report is available here (pdf). The cursive listings are newcomers and those that were removed are crossed out. The RIAA stresses that this list is a non-exhaustive overview.
Stream-Ripping Sites
– ssyoutube.com
– ytmp3.nu
– mp3juices.cc
– y2mate.com (and related site yt1s.com)
– ytmp3.nu
– savefrom.net (and related site savef.net)
– snaptube app and related domains
– tubidy.cool
Music Download Sites
– newalbumreleases.net
– intmusic.net
– waploaded.com
– hiphopkit.com
– ak47full.com
– fakaza.com
– hiphopda.com
– bazenation.com
– itopmusicx.com
BitTorrent Indexing Sites
– thepiratebay.org
– 1337x.to
– torrentgalaxy.to
Cyberlockers
– zippyshare.com
– dbree.org
– rapidgator.net
– turbobit.net
– krakenfiles.com
– ddownload.com
– pillowcase.su
AI Vocal Cloning
– voicify.ai
Additional Issues
– Bulletproof ISPS: PRQ, FlokiNET, Frantech Solutions/BuyVM/PONYNET, DDoS Guard.
– Domain Name Registrars: NameCheap, Tucows?
– Other intermediaries: Njal.la, A-Ads/Equativ, Softonic/Aptoid.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Rapid attribution shows the hurricane would have been a much less damaging storm.
As attempts to clean up after Hurricane Milton are beginning, scientists at the World Weather Attribution project have taken a quick look at whether climate change contributed to its destructive power. While the analysis is limited by the fact that not all the meteorological data is even available yet, by several measures, climate change made aspects of Milton significantly more likely.
This isn't a huge surprise, given that Milton traveled across the same exceptionally warm Gulf of Mexico that Helene had recently transited. But the analysis does produce one striking result: Milton would have been a Category 2 storm at landfall if climate change weren't boosting its strength.
Hurricanes strengthen while over warm ocean waters, and climate change has been slowly cranking up the heat content of the oceans. But it's important to recognize that the slow warming is an average, and that can include some localized extreme events. This year has seen lots of ocean temperature records set in the Atlantic basin, and that seems to be true in the Gulf of Mexico as well. The researchers note that a different rapid analysis released earlier this week showed that the ocean temperatures—which had boosted Milton to a Category 5 storm during its time in the Gulf—were between 400 and 800 times more likely to exist thanks to climate change.
Musk’s battle with former Twitter execs intensifies as X value reaches new low.
Former Twitter executives, including former CEO Parag Agrawal, are urging a court to open discovery in a dispute over severance and other benefits they allege they were wrongfully denied after Elon Musk took over Twitter in 2022.
According to the former executives, they've been blocked for seven months from accessing key documents proving they're owed roughly $200 million under severance agreements that they say Musk willfully tried to avoid paying in retaliation for executives forcing him to close the Twitter deal. And now, as X's value tanks lower than ever—reportedly worth 80 percent less than when Musk bought it—the ex-Twitter leaders fear their severance claims "may be compromised" by Musk's alleged "mismanagement of X," their court filing said.
The potential for X's revenue loss to impact severance claims appears to go beyond just the former Twitter executives' dispute. According to their complaint, "there are also thousands of non-executive former employees whom Musk terminated and is now refusing to pay severance and other benefits" and who have "sued in droves."
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ISP Grande loses appeal as 5th Circuit sides with Universal, Warner, and Sony.
Music publishing companies notched another court victory against a broadband provider that refused to terminate the accounts of Internet users accused of piracy. In a ruling on Wednesday, the conservative-leaning US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit sided with the big three record labels against Grande Communications, a subsidiary of Astound Broadband.
The appeals court ordered a new trial on damages because it said the $46.8 million award was too high, but affirmed the lower court's finding that Grande is liable for contributory copyright infringement.
"Here, Plaintiffs [Universal, Warner, and Sony] proved at trial that Grande knew (or was willfully blind to) the identities of its infringing subscribers based on Rightscorp’s notices, which informed Grande of specific IP addresses of subscribers engaging in infringing conduct. But Grande made the choice to continue providing services to them anyway, rather than taking simple measures to prevent infringement," said the unanimous ruling by three judges.
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