Customers of Sky broadband in the UK are finding themselves the target of piracy threat letters once again, following a court case last year which saw the ISP forced to hand over information on those that may have illegally downloaded the film The Company You Keep, starring Robert Redford and …
Read More »US Supreme Court weighs up online threats
There's been a lot of discussion about online threats in recent months, with different people having strong and varied opinions on what constitutes a real threat and what is just people venting. Now though the issue is being put to the Supreme Court, following the graphic and consistent threats of …
Read More »Indie Dev resigns after Twitter rant at Gabe Newell
Indie developer, Mike Maulbeck, went on a little Twitter rant last night, which resulted in him claiming that he was going to “kill Gabe Newell”. Once the tweet spread around, Valve decided to pull his game, Paranautical Activity from Steam. After embarrassing himself on the Internet, Maulbeck has now resigned. …
Read More »US teen jailed for Facebook rant in wake of Boston bombings
Cameron D'Ambrosio, 18 of Massachusetts, has been given a further month in jail without bail, after he was arrested on 1st May for a Facebook post that the prosecution described as a bomb threat. He will now be held until early July before facing trial. The comment came shortly after …
Read More »Kaspersky warns of targeted Cyberbomb MiniFlame threat
Most of KitGuru's readers are probably not schooled in the whole art of nuclear warfare – which is a good thing. Those who grew up prior to the eighties would have been presented with many documentaries on the threat posed by the USSR and its advanced nuclear weapons programmes. Reading …
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