Mac malware inside BitTorrent app, signed with legit Apple developer ID
If you downloaded the legitimate BitTorrent client for Mac OS over the past few days, you may have installed a nasty backdoor, security experts have warned.
If you downloaded the legitimate BitTorrent client for Mac OS over the past few days, you may have installed a nasty backdoor, security experts have warned.
The title of security analyst is the most in-demand position in IT, according to a survey of industry demand. Yet much of that job still involves trying to teach employees not to fall for online scams – which, according to new figures, took over 2500 Australians for more than $22.7m last year alone. Add to this concerns that a defeat for anti-piracy efforts around the movie Dallas Buyers' Club will lead to increased use of BitTorrent – and all the security issues that it entails – and it's a tough, thankless job.
David Braue | 15 Feb | Read more
Some people who use uTorrent, the popular BitTorrent client, are up in arms over the presence of cryptocurrency mining software on their computers which they say was installed without their permission.
Zach Miners | 07 Mar | Read more
A security researcher is both testing and protesting U.S. cybercrime laws by publishing 10 million real usernames and passwords for research purposes.
Jared Newman | 11 Feb | Read more
BitTorrent dismissed claims that its popular peer-to-peer file synchronization program BitTorrent Sync has an insecure cryptographic implementation that potentially gives the company access to users' files.
Lucian Constantin | 20 Nov | Read more
A co-founder of the Pirate Bay file-sharing service who had fled from Swedish authorities was nabbed at the border between Thailand and Laos, according to local news reports Tuesday.
Gregg Keizer | 05 Nov | Read more
BitTorrent Inc. is expanding the trial of its server-less peer-to-peer messaging app Bleep to pretty much anyone who wants to try it. Bleep entered an open alpha period late Wednesday with apps for Android (Google Play), Windows, and Mac. BitTorrent says an iOS version is coming at a later date.
Nine months after revealing plans to develop a decentralized and encrypted chat application, BitTorrent has opened public testing for Windows, Mac and Android versions of the program Wednesday.
Lucian Constantin | 19 Sep | Read more
Increasing use of big-data techniques is contributing to a stronger overall response to the expanding threat profile modern organisations face, the new regional head of security vendor WatchGuard Technologies has observed.
David Braue | 15 Sep | Read more
BitTorrent has teased its chat product for months, and now some lucky testers will get the chance to see the pre-alpha in action. The serverless chat client, designed to evade surveillance and big data collection, also has a name: BitTorrent Bleep.
Caitlin McGarry | 31 Jul | Read more
Twelve U.S. companies, including Internet service provider Level 3 Communications and BitTorrent, the company behind the popular peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol, have agreed to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges that they falsely claimed to abide by an international data privacy framework.
Grant Gross | 21 Jan | Read more
2013 was the year we learned we must encrypt our data if we don't want the likes of the U.S. National Security Agency or the U.K. Government Communications Headquarters reading it as it crosses the Internet.
Lucian Constantin | 31 Dec | Read more
BitTorrent, the company behind the popular file sharing protocol with the same name, is developing a secure chat application that will encrypt all communications between users and won't use any central server to route messages.
Lucian Constantin | 20 Dec | Read more
BitTorrent, the company, continues its push to prove that the BitTorrent, the protocol , isn't just for online piracy anymore. The company's latest product tease is a new instant messaging service predictably dubbed BitTorrent Chat.
Illegal downloads of Under the Dome rise after TV network blocked by cable operator
John P. Mello Jr. | 09 Aug | Read more