Google Offered Legal Help to YouTube Users

Google is helping to defend YouTube users who find themselves on the wrong side of a copyright claim, following a series of skirmishes with established media and others.

This was done after privacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) successfully defended a woman whose video of her son dancing to Prince’s Let’s Go Crazy had been removed from YouTube due to “copyright infringement”: the music label issued a DMCA notice ordering to take it down.

Google announced that with approval of the video creators, the company would keep such videos live on YouTube in the United States and feature them in the YouTube Copyright Center as examples of fair use. The company promised to cover the cost of any copyright lawsuits brought against them. Of course, Google won’t cover the court costs of every user on its streaming service, but the aim of the company is to demystify the process by which users could wield the law as effectively as representatives of the entertainment industry. Google has compiled a playlist of videos about which it has received complaints that it says it is going to defend in court.

Since tech firms rely on user-generated content and don’t want to deal with a potential flood of costly lawsuits from corporate rights holders, abuse of the DMCA is rampant and often used as a tool for political reprisal. The EFF can provide examples of creative uses of the takedown process – from a restaurant seeking to corner the market on a particular dessert recipe (by demanding to take down every recipe) to the Church of Scientology.

On the other hand, the industry observers say that tech firms were generally “evasive and unconcerned about even the most fundamental rights of Internet users”.

The well-known hacking collective Anonymous announced itself “at war” with the Islamic State following the attacks in Paris, expanding its “#OpISIS” online campaign. The continuation of operation was announced on 15 November via one of the major Anonymous twitter accounts, @GroupAnon.

The group has published a video (originally in French), where a figure wearing Anonymous’ iconic Guy Fawkes mask addressed the terror group and promised to hunt them down. In the meantime, a loosely related group of hackivists named BinarySec has also confirmed its online stance against Isis.

The industry watchers confirm that opposition to Isis is nothing new amongst hacktivist communities. For example, both BinarySec and Anonymous, more broadly, have been disrupting jihadi online communications for a while now. Their operation began early in 2015 as #OpCharlieHebdo, where Anonymous devoted themselves to rooting out the social media accounts of Isis supporters.

The hackers declared a partial victory in #OpISIS already in February, after they managed to seize control of about 100 Twitter accounts associated with the group. Since February, Anonymous have made use of various tools to hinder Isis on the Internet. They seized social media accounts by guessing passwords or abusing reset emails or flagged them to either Twitter or Facebook to be shut down.

Besides, the hacking group has been using such tools as DDoS attacks, which are designed to overwhelm a destination website with traffic, in order to bring down public Islamic State sites. According to statistics, the hackers have had success, bringing down almost 150 websites, flagging over 100,000 Twitter accounts and reporting about 5,000 propaganda videos.

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China Stocks Tumble; Other Asian Markets Start to Find Footing

Chinese stocks tumbled on Tuesday, bringing two-day losses to nearly 12%, but other markets in Asia rebounded after a big global selloff, a signal that China’s effect on stocks was waning.

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Kali Linux 2.0 Released — Most Powerful OS for #Security Researchers and Hackers

Offensive Security, the creators of Swiss army knife for Security researchers, Penetration testers and Hackers have finally released the much awaited and most powerful version of Kali Linux 2.0.

Kali Linux 2.0 (Codename ‘Kali Sana’), an open-source penetration testing platform brings hundreds of Penetration Testing, Forensics, Hacking and Reverse Engineering tools together into a Debian-based Linux distribution.

Kali Linux 2.0 offers a redesigned user interface for streamlined work experience, along with a new multi-level menus and tool categories options.

Kali Linux 2.0 is now a rolling distribution, means users will receive tools and core system updates frequently.

Kali Linux 2.0 Features:

• Runs on Linux kernel 4.0, 
• use full Gnome 3 Desktop instead of gnome-fallback, 
• improved hardware and wireless driver coverage, 
• support for a variety of Desktop Environments, 
• updated desktop environment and tools, 
• Featuring new cutting-edge wireless penetration tools, 
• Kali Linux now added desktop notifications, so that you do not miss anything, 
• Support Ruby 2.0, which will make Metasploit will load much faster, 
• Kali 2.0 added inbuilt screencasting tool so that you can record desktop.

Sadly, Kali team has removed the Metasploit Community and Pro packages. Instead, now just offers open-source Metasploit-framework package pre-installed.

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Upgrade to Kali 2.0

Kali Linux users can upgrade their Kali 1.x to Kali 2.0 without reinstalling whole operating system from scratch. To do this, you will need to edit your source.list entries, and run a dist-upgrade as shown below. 

cat << EOF > /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib
deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ sana/updates main contrib non-free
EOF

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade # get a coffee, or 10.
reboot

Download Kali 2.0 Penetration Testing Platform

Kali Linux 2.0 is available to download in following flavors...

• Kali Linux 64 bit
• Kali Linux 32 bit
• Kali Linux VMWare or VirtualBox images
• Kali 2.0 for ARM architecture

…from the official website. You can download it either from direct download link or using Torrents.

A New Company Called Alphabet Now Owns Google; Sundar Pichai Becomes New CEO

Well, this was a very unexpected move by Google.

Google Co-Founder Larry Page announced a restructuring of the whole company, revealing the creation of the umbrella "Alphabet" corporation.

But, don’t worry… Google isn’t dead! Rather, Google will become part of Alphabet.

Why Google Rebrands As ‘Alphabet’

Over time, Google, the Mountain View company has become a lot more than just a Search Engine.

Google created and acquired a large number of other popular Internet services, including Android, YouTube and Gmail, that makes too much difficult for a single company to manage all of them effectively.

According to Google Founders, it’s time, when different projects require different leaders, different company cultures, and different types of resources.

"Our model is to have a strong CEO, who runs each business, with Sergey and me in service to them as needed," Page wrote.

So the founders decided to create an all new parental brand that will manage both Google as well as its other far-flung projects — called ‘Alphabet’, going to be the biggest tech company most people have never heard of.

As a part of the new structure, Alphabet will manage Google and all of its other products, including:

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• Calico, an anti-aging biotech Research Division
• Nest, Google's Smart-Home project
• Sidewalk, a company, focused on Smart Cities
• Fiber, Company for High-speed Internet services
• Investment arms, such as Google Capital and Google Ventures
• R&D unit, such as Google X, developing Self-driving cars and Drones.

Alphabet Inc. will replace Google Inc. as the publicly traded company on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, and shareholders will get one Alphabet share for every Google share they previously owned.

G is for 'Google' and 'Sundar Pichai 'is New CEO

Google’s senior vice president Sundar Pichai (Pichai Sundararajan), currently senior vice president of products, will be the new CEO of the Search Engine.

Google is now a more coherent company than it was previous. Google will now include the company's core businesses, including:

• Search Engine
• Advertising, Adwords, and Adsense
• Google Maps
• YouTube, the Video Service
• Android, Mobile operating system
• Chrome operating system
• related technical infrastructure.

And the current CEO Larry Page will become Alphabet’s CEO. Co-founder Sergey Brin will be its president, and Eric Schmidt will be the executive chairman of Alphabet.

"It is clear to us and our board that it is time for Sundar to be CEO of Google," Larry Page wrote in the open letter announcing the creation of Alphabet.

"Google itself is also making all sorts of new products and I know Sundar will always be focused on innovation—continuing to stretch boundaries. I know he deeply cares that we can continue to make big strides on our core mission to organize the world's information."

The 43-year-old Sundar Pichai rose quickly at Google, from working with the Chrome team to lead both the team as well as Android as senior vice president of Products.

The Launch of Alphabet Inc. will not affect you at all, but Good news… the company’s shares jumped 6 percent after hours, adding tens of billions of dollars to its value.

New Android Bug Called “Heartbleed for Mobile”

New security vulnerability in Android allows hackers to take control of a smartphone by sending a text message. The worst part is that for the vast majority of Android users, there’s no fix yet. The researcher who detected the vulnerability claims that even the small number of people using Google’s own smartphones Nexus are vulnerable to some of the effects of the flaw.

The bug affects a part of the Android OS called Stagefright. The latter allows smartphones and tablets display media content. So, a malicious video can deliver a software which will run on the phone and potentially allow an attacker to obtain access to data on the phone and spy on the owner through camera and microphone.

The problem is that Google’s messaging app Hangouts automatically pre-processes received videos, so if the malicious video is sent as an MMS message, it will immediately take over the device before you even know about it, because in this case the user doesn’t actually have to play the video to be hacked. In respond, Google announced that the newer versions of Android protect users from the worst effects of the vulnerability. Security experts called the bug “Heartbleed for mobile”, referring to the flaw that put thousands of websites at risk a year ago.

The researcher who discovered the problem revealed its details to Google a few months ago and even provided patches for the errors. He set a condition of a 3-month embargo before he went public, giving Google enough time to fix the flaw. But this discovery highlighted another security problem with Android: the speed with which fixes are received by end users. Google, the developer of Android, cannot push patches to most of Android devices produced by other companies, and the manufacturers often have to negotiate with mobile network operators to send patches to end users.

Pakistan Tried to Tap Worldwide Web Traffic

According to recent reports, Pakistani intelligence was trying to tap international web traffic via underwater cables. Apparently, this could give the country a digital espionage capacity to rival the United States.

It is claimed that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency hired third parties to acquire spying tool kits from abroad for domestic surveillance. The same reports claim that the agency sought access to tap data from “landing sites” passing through the country’s port city of Karachi. If succeeded, this would have effectively given it access to web traffic all over the world.

The country was known to negotiate with a European company two years ago to acquire the technology, but it is unknown whether the deal went through. The cables in question route data through various countries and regions – from Europe to Africa and all the way to south-east Asia, including traffic from North America and India.

It is suggested that the data collection sought in the agency’s proposal could rival some of the world’s most powerful surveillance programs (like those of the United States and the United Kingdom).

Back in June 2015, Pakistani rights campaigners and opposition lawmakers called for Islamabad to protect the privacy of its citizens after leaked documents revealed that the UK intelligence had obtained access to almost all of the Pakistani Internet users. The country is currently in the process of discussing its own cyber-crime law, which may threaten to curtail freedom of expression and privacy if not amended.

Finally, the local rights groups also expressed concern over a provision in the bill that allows the government to share collected data with foreign spy agencies, including the US NSA.

MtGox Founder Arrested in Japan over lost Bitcoins

Mark Karpeles, 30, the ex-boss of the now defunct popular Bitcoin exchange MtGox, was arrested in Japan over the disappearance of millions of dollars worth of the cryptocurrency.

 

 

The French-born Mark Karpeles was accused of falsifying information on the outstanding balance of the Bitcoin exchange, which used to be the world’s largest hub for trading cryptocurrency. According to Japanese news reports, officials from the Tokyo metropolitan police claimed that Mark Karpeles allegedly manipulated the exchange computer system to inflate its assets.

After media reports emerged about his arrest, Mark Karpeles claimed that the allegations were “false” and he would “of course deny” them. When the exchange filed for bankruptcy last year, Karpeles explained that 750,000 customer Bitcoins and another 100,000 Bitcoins that belonged to MtGox disappeared due to a software security bug. At the time of the bankruptcy filing, these 850,000 Bitcoins were worth $480m. The cryptocurrency exchange also said that over $27m was missing from its Japanese bank accounts.

Mark Karpeles blamed hackers for the loss and later announced that he was never going to hide from justice and managed to recover 200,000 of the lost Bitcoins. He was known as a self-proclaimed geek saying he was uncomfortable in his native country and hadn’t been back in years. The MtGox founder became interested in Bitcoin when one of the clients of his web-hosting services offered to pay in cryptocurrency.

After a while, MtGox was dominating global trade in Bitcoin. However, back in 2012, employees at the Tokyo-based exchange have already challenged the founder on issues including client money being used to cover costs.

Google Receives 18 DMCA Requests Every Second

Rights owners send Google more and more copyright takedown requests. The statistics said that the search engine is required to remove 18 links to "pirate" pages every second, and this number continues to grow. Rights owners can be understood – by sending takedown notices, they hope to steer prospective customers away from pirate portals.

The number of DMCA notices has increased dramatically over the years – while 7 years ago Google received only a few dozen requests per year, now the same number is reached in a few seconds. For example, over the past month, copyright holders submitted about 47 million notices, which makes it 18 links per second. As for the last week, the company got a staggering 12.5m reported links, which proves that the surge in notices is still ongoing.

The largest number of requests comes from the BPI and RIAA – they have sent notices for 5.5 million URLs over the past month (12% of all notices). However, the outfits are topped by takedown agencies Rivendell and Degban, who account for reporting 7.7 and 6.3 million links respectively.

Overall, within the past month, over 2,600 rights owners submitted takedown notices targeting 77,500 separate domain names. The top targets include the relatively unknown MP3 search engine myfreemp3.re and a number of The Pirate Bay related domains.

Usually, Google removes all of the reported URLs, but sometimes takedown notices also include duplicate or non-infringing links, and in this case the company takes no action. Even despite such a huge number of processed requests, many copyright holders are still not happy with the search engine’s take on the piracy problem. For example, such Hollywood representatives as the RIAA and MPAA have repeatedly stressed that Google does not do enough to remove pirated content from the top search results.

In respond, the company has gradually altered its search algorithms. In October 2014, Google introduced the most significant change yet, downranking websites that often link to pirated content.

Still, the entertainment industry continues to urge the company to completely de-list infringing domains and boost the rankings of legal alternatives. Apparently, until Google agrees to comply, the number of reported links wouldn’t decrease.

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এ বছরের শেষের দিকে টাইজেন অপারেটিং সিস্টেম চালিত আরও স্মার্টফোন বাজারে আনার পরিকল্পনা করেছে দক্ষিণ কোরিয়ান ইলেকট্রনিক্স জায়ান্ট স্যামসাং।

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এক প্রতিবেদনে সংবাদ সংস্থা রয়টার্স জানিয়েছে, স্যামসাংয়ের আসন্ন পরিকল্পনা সম্পর্কে জানালেও ‘বিষয়টির সংবেদনশীলতার কারণে’ তথ্যদাতা নিজ পরিচয় প্রকাশে রাজি হননি।
বছরের শেষ দিকে স্যামসাংয়ের, বিভিন্ন মূল্যের টাইজেন স্মার্টফোন বাজারজাত করার পরিকল্পনা রয়েছে বলেই জানিয়েছেন তিনি। কিন্তু ফোনগুলোর স্পেসিফিকেশন কী হতে পারে, সে ব্যাপারে সূত্র বাড়তি কোনো তথ্য দেননি।
অন্যদিকে স্যামসাংয়ের মুখপাত্রের সঙ্গে প্রতিষ্ঠানটির আসন্ন এ পরিকল্পনা প্রসঙ্গে যোগাযোগ করা হলে, তিনি এ ব্যাপারে কোনো মন্তব্য করতে রাজি হননি বলে জানিয়েছে রয়টার্স।
২০১৫ সালের জানুয়ারিতে প্রতিষ্ঠানটি তাদের প্রথম টাইজেন স্মার্টফোন জেড১ বাংলাদেশ, ভারত ও শ্রীলংকার বাজারে নিয়ে আসে। স্মার্টফোন নির্মাতা হিসেবে বর্তমানে বিশ্বে তৃতীয় স্থানে থাকা স্যামসাংয়ের প্রায় দশ লাখ টাইজেন স্মার্টফোন ভারতে বিক্রি হলেও, গবেষণা সংস্থা কাউন্টারপয়েন্টের মে মাসের প্রতিবেদনের তথ্য অনুযায়ী, জানুয়ারি থেকে মার্চ সময়সীমার মধ্যে সবচেয়ে বেশি টাইজেন স্মার্টফোন বিক্রি হয়েছে বাংলাদেশে।
টাইজেন অপারেটিং সিস্টেমের মাধ্যমে স্মার্টওয়াচ, প্রিমিয়াম টেলিভিশন সেট ও অন্যান্য ডিভাইসের নিজস্ব প্ল্যাটফর্ম গড়ে তুলতে চাইছে স্যামসাং। কিন্তু সেজন্য প্রতিষ্ঠানটির টাইজেন অপারেটিং সিস্টেমচালিত স্মার্টফোনের বাজার সম্প্রসারিত করা, এর ব্যবহারকারী ও থার্ড-পার্টি ডেভলপার বাড়ানো প্রয়োজন বলেই জানিয়েছেন বিশ্লেষকরা।

17 May: ITU’s 150th Anniversary Celebrations