| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.04.2025 | The Hidden Dangers of Mobile Apps: A Wake-Up Call for Enterprises | In the digital age, mobile apps are the lifeblood of enterprise operations. They streamline processes, enhance communication, and provide access to critical data. But lurking beneath the surface is a troubling reality. A recent analysis by ... |
| 17.04.2025 | If you couldn't attend your Zoom meeting yesterday, GoDaddy may be to blame | Zoom going down is more than an inconvenience, it can be catastrophic. The online video meeting tool has become so important since the COVID pandemic, that it is hard to imagine life without it.
But for a significant period yesterday, Zoom ... |
| 24.01.2025 | The Digital Frontier: Innovations in Property and Brand Protection | In the fast-paced world of technology, two companies are carving out new paths in their respective fields. Landeed and MarqVision are at the forefront of innovation, each tackling significant challenges in property title searches and brand ... |
| 22.01.2025 | MarqVision Puts Counterfeiters on Notice With Advanced Detection Capabilities That Spot Fake Goods Through Social in Under One Minute With 99% Accuracy | Company adds top talent to aggressively combat $2 trillion global counterfeiting problem with cutting-edge technology; Brand protection veteran Charlie Abrahams becomes a MarqVision advisor while industry leaders Jake Morgan, Joo Hyung (Rin... |
| 06.08.2024 | Record Labels Ask Court to Deny Cox’s Challenge of ‘$1 Billion’ Piracy Verdict | Last month, several major record labels sued Internet provider Verizon over its subscribers’ alleged copyright infringements.
The companies alleged that the Internet provider “buried its head in the sand” while knowingly providing its Inter... |
| 27.06.2024 | Crazy Domains Delivers New AI Website Builder | Crazy Domains leverages AI to simplify building websites for SMBs
SYDNEY, June 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Crazy Domains, one of Australia and New Zealand's top domain and hosting providers delivers its new AI Website Builder to streamline the... |
| 28.05.2024 | Cox Appeals Billion Dollar Piracy Verdict Over ‘Concealed Evidence’ | Late 2019, Internet provider Cox Communications lost its legal battle against a group of major record labels, including Sony and Universal.
Following a two-week trial, a Virginia jury held Cox liable for its pirating subscribers. The ISP fa... |
| 26.04.2024 | Nintendo vs. Garry’s Mod: Dissecting the ‘Fake’ Domain Behind All the Chaos | In a world where there’s always someone telling people what to do, Garry’s Mod is a breath of fresh air. Launched in 2006, the sandbox game has no goals; just hand over $9.99 to Steam, jump in, and do whatever you like.
With the benefit of ... |
| 18.03.2022 | Anti-Piracy Company Asks Court to Keep Filings Secret as TorrentFreak Might Report On Them | At TorrentFreak we do our best to keep readers updated on the latest copyright and piracy news, highlighting issues from different points of view.
We report on the opinions and efforts of copyright holders when it comes to online piracy and... |
| 20.05.2020 | NSO Group Impersonated Facebook to Help Clients Hack Targets | Infamous Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group created a web domain that looked as if it belonged to Facebook's security team to entice targets to click on links that would install the company's powerful cell phone hacking technology, accordi... |
| 03.05.2018 | MPAA-Seized Popcorn Time Domain Now Redirects to Pirate Site (Updated) | Four years ago Popcorn Time took the Internet by storm.
The software amassed millions of users by offering BitTorrent-powered streaming in an easy-to-use Netflix-style interface.
While the original developers shut down their project after a... |
| 10.05.2016 | Report: 68 Percent Of Consumers Exclusively Book their Travel Plans Online | Krystle Vermes, Tech Times 10 May 2016, 11:05 am
New research released by MarkMonitor on May 9 discovered that 68 percent of global consumers now exclusively book their travel plans online.
However, seven out of 100 respondents said that th... |
| 24.04.2016 | Does ‘Piracy’ Make Copyright Infringers Sound Cool? | When Steven Spielberg’s timeless classic E.T was released in 1981, those of us who were kids at the time wanted only one thing – to watch it on the silver screen. That, however, was easier said than done.
As alien a concept to today’s young... |
| 01.11.2015 | Pirate Sites and Their Users Are Suffering a Trademark Crisis | Anti-piracy activities often get plenty of negative press and when they’re overreaching and cynical, why shouldn’t they? However, in much the same way as one might have reluctant admiration for a brilliant but criminal genius, occasionally ... |
| 24.08.2015 | Windows 10 privacy paranoia leads to ban from private pirate torrent trackers | Mike Mozart reader comments 203 with 118 posters participating
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Fears surrounding Windows 10's online connectivity and data collection are continuing to run rampant. The lat... |
| 04.08.2014 | Lionsgate Fights Expendables 3 Piracy With Thousands of Takedowns | The early release of the upcoming Expendables 3 film is one of the most high-profile leaks in recent history.
While pirated copies of most blockbusters eventually find their way online, a high quality leak weeks before a box office premiere... |
| 02.08.2014 | Look out for a new Microsoft cloud service called Sway | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Microsoft has bought the domain name Sway.com and... |
| 02.08.2014 | Look out for a new Microsoft cloud service called Sway | Microsoft has bought the domain name Sway.com and appears to be planning a cloud service by that name.
Domain name watcher Jamie Zoch noticed the purchase and wrote about his findings yesterday on the site DotWeekly.
“I think Microsoft is g... |
| 17.08.2013 | Six-Strikes Anti-Piracy System Gets New Evidence Review | After years of negotiating and planning the “six strikes” copyright alert system finally went live in February. Since then, many alerts have been sent out to U.S. subscribers, although the exact number remains a mystery.
The evidence at the... |
| 19.04.2013 | You've Got (No) Mail! Major Law Firm Blocks Employee Email Access | Personal email accounts introduce possible threats to firm computers. A careless employee could open a trojan horse attachment and unleash a virus on the system. Even if the attack only infects the local drive, confidential information may ... |
| 10.12.2012 | Biggest UK brands failing to protect their customers from online fraud, new research finds | 84 per cent of top 100 hundred brands leave their websites open for scraping and fraudulent use
One in five bargain hunters deceived by fraudulent sites
Research released today raises worrying questions about the current ability of online r... |
| 11.10.2012 | Security breach briefly hijacks connections to Google.ie and Yahoo.ie. | reader comments 17 with 9 posters participating
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| 28.09.2012 | ISPs and Tracking Company Ready to Start Six-Strikes Anti-Piracy Scheme | The MPAA and RIAA, helped by five major Internet providers in the United States, will start to warn and punish copyright infringers later this year.
The parties launched the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) and agreed on a system thro... |
| 27.07.2012 | Brand protection startup Mark Monitor acquired by Thomson Reuters | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Thomson Reuters, one of the biggest news gatherin... |
| 26.07.2012 | Thomson Reuters Acquires Brand Protection Company MarkMonitor | Thomson Reuters announced today that it has made a deal to acquire a brand protection company called MarkMonitor for an undisclosed sum.
The MarkMonitor website says the company offers a suite of products and services that include brand pro... |
| 29.04.2012 | Achievement Unlocked: Apple Wins Applecom.com And Appleprinters.com After WIPO Complaint | Apple doesn’t own iPad.com, apple.co.uk or many other domains that contain its name or the names of its products, but it is now the proud owner of applecom.com and appleprinters.com — two domains that were the subject of a complaint Apple m... |
| 10.03.2012 | Wikipedia Completes Transfer Of Sites Away From GoDaddy DNS | Part of the long-running (and far from over) SOPA/PIPA battle was the drawing of lines in the sand by Internet companies. While most recognized the danger of that irresponsible and short-sighted bill and took action against it, some compani... |
| 08.04.2011 | UK Consumers at risk from suspicious online sales of diet drugs | 08 April 2011: MarkMonitor® - global leader in enterprise brand protection - today reveals the alarming number of illicit practices where diet pills can be bought online without the necessary prescription and warns consumers of the potentia... |
| 02.02.2011 | MarkMonitor Report Reveals How Scammers Generate Significant Traffic Promoting Suspected Counterfeit Sports Apparel Online | Suspicious E-commerce Sites Attract 56 Million Visits Annually
LONDON, February 2, 2011 – MarkMonitor®, the global leader in enterprise brand protection, today released a special edition of the Brandjacking Index®, focused on sports apparel... |
| 13.01.2011 | Highly Flawed 'Piracy' Report Used To Support Positions That Are Unrelated | Last year, we pointed out that Steven Tepp, who worked at the US Copyright Office at the time, and was heavily involved in pushing for ACTA (and downplaying the legitimate concerns of ACTA critics), jumped ship to the private US Chamber of ... |
| 12.01.2011 | Report Sheds Light on Scale and Complexity of Online Piracy and Counterfeiting Problem | MarkMonitor study shows digital piracy and counterfeit goods websites generate more than 53 billion visits per year
LONDON, 12 January 2011 – A sampling of only 22 brands revealed that websites offering pirated digital content and counterfe... |
| 12.01.2011 | RapidShare Accuses ‘Piracy Report’ Publisher of Defamation, Might Sue | In the last year RapidShare has taken extreme measures to ensure that they are operating legitimately. The company is actively working with copyright holders to meet their needs and has employed various take down tools comparable to those f... |
| 11.01.2011 | Cyberlockers Take Over File-Sharing Lead From BitTorrent Sites | For more than half a decade, starting in the mid 2000s, BitTorrent sites dominated the file-sharing space. Early 2007 Mininova was the first BitTorrent site to earn a place among the top 100 most-visited sites on the Internet, and soon ther... |
| 22.12.2010 | Is This How Bank of America Is Preparing For the Next WikiLeaks Release? | Prior to his arrest, WikiLeaks spokesperson Julian Assange hinted that the next batch of documents released would not be secret government information, but rather would implicate a major American bank. Assange has never confirmed which bank... |
| 18.10.2010 | MarkMonitor Acquires DtecNet To Combat Online Piracy | Brand protection company MarkMonitor has acquired DtecNet Software, a global anti-piracy company. With the addition of DtecNet technology, MarkMonitor says it aims to expand its Brand Protection platform by adding targeting capabilities for... |
| 14.10.2010 | Leading Anti-Piracy Outfit Sold To US Fraud and Brand Protection Firm | In July this year, we reported on some new stats made available by the RIAA.
In less than two years the music industry group had sent out copyright infringement notices to 1.8 million Internet subscribers and a further 269,609 to colleges a... |
| 25.12.2009 | Apple's New Tablet To Be Baptized iSlate? Let's Dig A Little Deeper | Nice scoop by MacRumors, which reportedly retrieved historical evidence that Apple has acquired the domain name islate.com back in 2007. Apparently, the Cupertino company registered the domain through brand protection firm Mark Monitor to c... |
| 01.10.2009 | MarkMonitor Finds Online Drug Brand Abuse is Growing | Latest Brandjacking Index Provides Glimpse into the Economics Fuelling Supply and Demand in the Online Pharmaceutical Market
LONDON, 1st October 2009 – MarkMonitor, the global leader in enterprise brand protection, today released the compan... |
| 11.12.2008 | MarkMonitor warns of the online availability of diet pills that can seriously damage your health | 11 December 2008 - As the value of the UK slimming supplement market tops £55 million (1), research from MarkMonitor – the global leader in enterprise brand protection – demonstrates the extent to which prescription slimming pills and illeg... |
| 02.06.2008 | .Mac revamp: Follow “me” down Apple’s DNS rabbit hole | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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