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Feds seize MegaUpload; Anonymous retaliates

In one of the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought, the U.S. Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation have seized and shutdown popular file-sharing site MegaUpload. With 150 million registered users and nearly 50 million hits daily, MegaUpload was among the world’s biggest file-sharing sites. The so-called locker site allowed users to transfer large files like movies and music anonymously. The movie industry has long hurled copyright infringement allegations at the site and complained that it was profiting off pirated material. In a grand jury indictment, MegaUpload is accused of causing $500 million in damages to copyright owners and of making $175 million by selling ads and premium subscriptions. Though, with the site being based in Hong Kong and MegaUpload operators living in New Zealand, jurisdiction was a tricky issue. However, the revelation that some of the alleged pirated content was being hosted stateside on leased servers in Virginia was enough for U.S. prosecutors to act.

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McAfee to plug spam hole

McAfee’s defences have sprung a spam leak, but a plug is on its way. McAfee has acknowledged that a flaw in one of its programmes has left its customers’ PCs vulnerable to being hijacked by spammers. However, the anti-virus firm said it planned to release a patch by the end of today. The problems began to surface as McAfee customers reported via blog posts and forum sites that spammers were using a hole in McAfee’s RumorServer relay service to send spam from their machines without their knowledge. According to David Marcus, director of security research at McAfee Labs, the flaw is isolated to the SaaS Total Protection anti-malware service and there is no evidence that customer data has been compromised. “The patch will be released on January 18 or 19, as soon as we have finished testing,” said Marcus. “Because this is a managed product, all affected customers will automatically receive the patch when it is released.” Furthermore, there are two issues with the software – the ability for hackers to misuse both ActiveX controls and “open relay” technology. “The first issue has much in common with a similar issue patched in August 2011,” Marcus explained

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5 Factors for Successful Mastermind Groups

So How Do You Know if Your Mastermind Group is Optimal? Great Business Mastermind Groups deliver quantifiable value for member companies, to be sure. It is often the qualitative value that becomes life-changing for business higher-ups involved. That qualitative value can be measured by the following results: Constant Member Progress By whatever metric assigned, all constituent businesses are constantly moving toward the accomplishment of their objective in the group, be it business growth in sales, developing a scalable model, or global growth. Purposes don’t have to be financial, but this is often a measurement that is easy to keep score of a common expected outcome for small business participants. Determination Mastermind Group members must be totally committed to their objective for joining and the aggregate objective of the group. One hallmark of a mature, high-performing Mastermind Group is a high level of attendance at all group meetings and training events. As we explained in an earlier report, commitment can also be seen in the level of active involvement in the positive resolutions for the challenges encountered by other businesses in the Mastermind Group.

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Anonymous puts government sites on the bonfire

Hacktivist collective Anonymous struck again this weekend, carrying out attacks on both El Salvador and Israeli government sites. El Salvador’s president’s website went offline after being swamped with over 30 million visits on Saturday, and the legislative assembly, police and ministry of justice also came under attack. Presidential spokesman David Rivas pinned the attack on Anonymous and believed it to be part of vigilante Operation Justice El Salvador – sparked by the group’s stance on the country’s human rights record. Economy minister, Hector Dada Hirezi added that the group “tried to attack our website to publicise the private information of internal and external users.” On Sunday the Israeli government’s website also faced the wrath of Anonymous, as the group threatened action via YouTube video if humanitarian boats attempting to reach Gaza continued to be blocked. “Your actions are illegal, against democracy, human rights, international, and maritime laws

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Study shows interplay between search marketing and social media

A new study released by GroupM Search and comScore reveals the dramatic correlation that influenced discovery of brands through social media has with search behavior, including more lower-funnel queries and increased paid search click-through-rates (CTR).

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Ask.com launches new shopping service

Wired News is reporting that Ask.com has launched a new shopping service designed to aggregate the best prices and deals from around the Internet on everything from electronics to food. Company spokespeople have said that the new specialty search engine called Ask Deals was created in response to Web surfers trying to find the best deals possible in tough economic times.

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YouTube Silences Copyrighted Music

In an effort to better protect copyrighted music, popular online video site YouTube has muted clips that contain unauthorized music by artists under the Warner Music Group (WMG) label.

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Google Nets 72% of December U.S. Search Market Share

Don’t like Google’s Internet ubiquity? Think it could do a better job of protecting user data? Feel like Street View violates privacy standards? Apparently, you’re in the minority.

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New CEO Carol Bartz Seeks "Breathing Room" For Yahoo!

Carol Bartz, the former Executive Chairman of the software company Autodesk Inc., has been named the new Chief Executive Officer at Yahoo!, replacing current CEO Jerry Yang.

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Analysts: Explicit Dissent, Militant Censorship Will Roil Chinese Internet in 2009

Little more than one week after Chinese officials announced a month-long campaign to crack down on websites that distribute “vulgar material,” several new sites have been blacklisted.

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