The recent announcement by the FTC that sensitive information from nearly 100 organizations had been compromised through peer-to-peer file-sharing networks underscores the risks of this technology.

Worse yet, Internet criminals know this, and they are data-mining filesharing networks,” While Mark Gorton, chairman of LimeWire LLC, said his company “takes the problem of inadvertent file-sharing ...

Netflix isn't just sailing ahead of competitors like Amazon, Hulu, and YouTube in the downstream market—it's starkly cutting traffic to BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, ...

Decentralized file sharing — using blockchain technology to share data without depending on a centralized server — is often praised for its redundancy, security and censorship resistance. Yet, despite ...

When technicians from Palo Alto Networks installed one of the company’s firewalls in a Fortune 100 company, they were surprised when the device began examining a massive data stream in and out of the ...

LOS ANGELES – The American film industry is preparing to sue computer server operators in America and Europe who help relay digitized movie files across online file-sharing networks, a source familiar ...

PEER-TO-PEER file swapping networks have been growing in popularity ever since Napster emerged, with Morpheus, Gnutella, and Kazaa being the more popular options in use today. In addition to the ...

Wagner Resource Corp. recently learned the hard way what Pfizer Inc. and many other companies have similarly discovered in the past: installing peer-to-peer file-sharing software on corporate ...