In its long fight against Internet piracy, the Recording Industry Association of America is gunning for the technology that enables it: BitTorrent. Brad Buckles, RIAA’s VP for anti-piracy, has told ...
Researchers warn several BitTorrent protocols can be leveraged to carry out distributed reflective denial of service (DRoS) attacks. Researchers warn that several protocols used by the peer-to-peer ...
A flaw in BitTorrent clients can be exploited to allow single attackers to harness extra juice in launching DDoS attacks on a vast scale. At the USENIX conference in Washington, D.C., researchers from ...
Jacob Kastrenakes is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. BitTorrent wants to build a secure chat service that will only ever let a message ...
The Pirate Bay’s BitTorrent tracker is down for good—but that’s by design. The Pirate Bay has been intermittently unavailable for last few months as copyright holders have pressured its various ISPs ...
BitTorrent has taken rapid steps to mitigate a flaw which could divert user traffic to launch reflective DDoS attacks. The flaw, reported by Florian Adamsky at the USENIX conference in Washington, D.C ...
ShopChain reveals an innovative approach to decentralizing shopper data leveraging Ethereum Blockchain, federated consensus, and an asynchronous distributed hash table technology. Brooklyn, Nov. 06, ...
In the world of decentralization, distributed hash tables (DHTs) recently have had a revolutionary effect. The chaotic, ad hoc topologies of the first-generation peer-to-peer architectures have been ...