Tag overview for: 'extortion'
Entries on this site with 'extortion'
- Ransomware: Pay us $35us or be forever locked out of your box!
Ransomware, malware that forces the user of an infected machine to pay a sum of money to Someone Out There in exchange for regaining access to their data isn't exactly the
- Bastille Linux domain hijacked by domain squatter; project renamed, relocated.
Some time on Monday, the Bastille Linux project was notified that someone had hijacked their domain, namely, a domain squatter named Mykhaylo Perebiynis who is willing to
- The RIAA demands a cut from cover bands and coffee shops.
With stuff like this going on, you have to wonder if the mainstream music industry has pretentions to replacing the Mafia in its business practices. It seems that the majo
- "We'll make sure they get paid, even though they don't work for us..."
A couple of weeks ago, the RIAA managed to get a law passed that requires royalties to be paid to them for all music streamed across the Net, regardless of the reason or o
- There's something very _Snow Crash_ about this.
Some call it spam, others call it laughable, but some people are very spooked about what you can find on someone with a simple Google search: E-mailed extortion threats de
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