Dutch Internet News Today

This is a lightly edited transcript of my presentation today at the ACCSS/NCSC/Surf seminar ‘Cyber Security and Society’. I want to thank the organizers for inviting me to their conference & giving me a great opportunity to talk about something I worry about a lot. Here are the original slides with notes, which may be useful to view together with the text below. In the notes there are also additional URLs that back up the claims I make in what follows.

These emails sent to the wrong address were being sent by the staff of the US Army.

Spelling error misdirected sensitive Pentagon messages to company running Mali’s TLD.

Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN just posted its latest annual report, which reveals that it shut down 349 illegal sites and services.

Pirate site blocking is widely regarded as an effective tool to combat online piracy. But just how effective is it?

Anti-piracy group BREIN has obtained a new blocking order in the Netherlands, targeting 1337x, LimeTorrents, YTS, RARBG, KAT and EZTV.