A new stable version of uTorrent has been released two days ago that fixes two remote crash bugs that were affecting several version of the popular Bittorrent client. Users who have not updated yet are advised to update as soon as possible to get rid of the security vulnerability.
Windows 7 Milestone 1 leaked
It was only a matter of time before someone would up the first milestone release of Windows 7, the upcoming Microsoft operating system due out in late 2009, to the Internet. This version was uploaded to some popular torrent websites and gets currently spread there blazingly fast, once the ball is rolling there is no turning back.
Myspace Private Profile Picture Leak
Myspace we got a problem, a huge one that is. You might have heard about the vulnerability that allowed anyone to view pictures that have been set to private at Myspace ? You might have also heard that the vulnerability got fixed pretty fast by Myspace. Unfortunately though not fast enough because someone was able to run an automated script that leeched the pictures of more than 44000 private profiles before the security hole was fixed.
Pirate Coelho – a story about pirates and success
The business, RIAA, MAFIA, MPAA wants you to believe that putting content on the Internet is affecting sales of that content in a bad way, that companies sell less books, videos, movies, audio CDs because of pirates who download the media from the Internet. The funny thing is that more and more stories emerge that contradict this statement, one of these is the story about Pirate Coelho.
AT&T considering spying on its users
AT&T are currently evaluating if they should implement a system that would in effect monitor all traffic coming through their lines in an effort to stop sharing of copyrighted material on the Internet using P2P networks. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson came up with a weak analogy to prove his point: “It’s like being in a store and watching someone steal a DVD. Do you act?”
DOS Vulnerability in uTorrent and Bittorrent
A vulnerability in uTorrent and Bittorrent, which is using uTorrent’s core, was discovered today that effects the BitTorrent 6.0 client,
uTorrent 1.7.x, uTorrent 1.6.x and uTorrent 1.8-alpha-7834. The Denial of Service vulnerability is made possible by the way the clients handle user data.
Stream Music contained in torrent files
If you do not want to download music from Bittorrent you now have an alternative that might suite you better. You can use the Bitlet Bittorrent Applet to stream the music contained in the torrent to your computer. The applet phrase hints that Java – not Javascript – is required to stream the music from torrent files to your computer.
