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The article reports that mass media firm Village Roadshow will conduct Federal Court action for blocking piracy-linked websites sites under Australian anti-piracy laws to control over illegal movie downloads.

The article discusses the pay television company, Foxtel and media company Village Roadshow who opposed Federal Court applications of allowing Internet Service Providers (ISP) to block their customers access to privacy-linked websites.

The articles reports that the update process of the Drupal website, which provides an online platform for web content management, is prone to hacking, according to the researcher Fernando Arnaboldi of the computer security company IOactive Inc. The article further mentions that the website updates are not done over the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) systems for controlling unauthorized access to the website.

The article reports that researchers suggests that the SHA-1 hashing algorithm used to sign one in three Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates that secure major websites.

The article presents information on the decision of Indian government to direct Internet service providers to block 857 websites offering pornography, invoking Section 69 (A) of India's Information Technology Act which applies to blockage of information related to strategic threats to the nation. Pranesh Prakash, policy director of the Centre for Internet and Society has condemned the decision.

The article reports that online social networking company Facebook has been sued by Sikh non-profit organization Sikhs for Justice claiming that the company block its Facebook page which is use to run a campaign for the creation of Sikh country in India. Topics include the negotiation where the organization ask to cease the blocking of page, the correspondence receive by the group from the company, and the civil rights violation and discriminatory conduct charged by the group to the company.

The article offers technology news briefs in the U.S. as of April 21, 2015. It mentions the decreasing profit of International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) for the last quarter of 2014 despite the boost from its z13 mainframe computer. It cites the so-called Mobilegeddon where websites that are not the mobile devices-friendly find tumbling in the Google's search rankings. IT cites the loosening of the agreement between Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. for search engine capabilities.

The article reports that Internet censorship group GreatFire.org in China faces an ongoing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that endangers organization's activities. Topics discussed include the attack uses an army of hacked computers to send an amount of traffic to a website, the attack targets mirror websites developed by the group to permit Chinese user access blocked content, and the issue towards country's censorship.

The article reports on the decision of Internet search company Google Inc. to allow sexually explicit content on its weblog publishing tool, Blogger, reversing its previous decision to limit the type of content. Topics discussed include the decision of the company to move blogs that displayed graphic nudity, videos and sexually explicit images to private blogs, the criticism of the bloggers in the modification of its adult content policy, and the restriction to access the sites.

The article reports on the efforts of the Chinese government in suppressing unrestricted Internet access through blocking virtual private network (VPN) services in China. It mentions that the crack down has led to disruption in accessing international websites. It also notes that the move is part of improving the censorship system in the country. It also emphasizes that among the blocked sites are BBC, Twitter and Facebook.

The article reports on the flaws in login credentials of several websites such as LinkedIn Corp., Slashdot.org., and Nasdaq.com. It notes the result of the study conducted by the multinational company International Business Machines Corp.'s (IBM) Force security researchers, who have found an easy way to gain access to Web accounts. It also mentions the effort of the company in notifying such websites, which prompted them to fix or take measures to prevent account takeovers.

The article focuses on shut down of more than 400 websites including that of online black market Silk Road 2.0, using a special feature of the Tor network that hides true IP (internet protocol) addresses by the U.S. and European law enforcements. It discusses hiding internet accessed by people using special software that routes encrypted browsing traffic through a network of worldwide servers and shutdown of websites by the U.S. Department of Justice under the Operation Onymous.

The article reports that the Azure Cloud computing platform of Microsoft Corp. has been experiencing outages and interruptions that are affecting products in the U.S. and abroad. It states that the interruptions affected several services such as cloud services, virtual machines, and websites. It mentions that the outages have also affected several Azure products and affected customers across the world.

The article reports on the arrest of a Immunicity proxy server operator on the grounds of copyright infringement in Nottingham, England in 2014. It is noted that the operator provided access to websites blocked for infringing or illegal content offering. The arrest is considered part of the City of London Police unit's campaign to repress websites giving access to infringing or illegal content.

The article reports that computer hackers in Russia stole personal Internet identity information including stolen user names, passwords and email addresses. Comments are presented from chief information officer Alex Holden of Internet security company Hold Security. The "New York Times" newspaper appointed an independent security expert to verify the stolen data.

The article reports on the defacement of the website of the International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants (EC-Council), a society that runs information technology (IT) security training and certification programs, by a hacker who calls himself Eugene Belford. It cites that the hacker replaced the homepage with a screen shot of an e-mail application for admission to Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) program. The attack was said to be the result of domain name system (DNS) hijacking.

The article reports that the malware program called Effusion which functions as module for Apache and Nginx Web Servers is being sold on cybercrime forums. It states that the malware can inject code in real time into websites hosted on affected computer servers. It mentions that the malware can check if it has root access and allow attackers control over underlying system.