Did you know that October is now National Cyber Security Awareness Month! This article should be interesting and useful to everyone since we're taking an elearning course i would assume we all use and purchase software and the internet. This article discusses cases of recent piracy and the dangers of malware which is "short for malicious software, is software designed to infiltrate a computer without the owner's informed consent." The article mostly focuses on peer to peer networking and auction sites which according to the article are huge hot spots for transfers of illegal software. BSA uses special technology to monitor peer to peer networks and auction sites, issuing "takedown requests" when it finds suspicious software being offered. In the first half of 2009, BSA issued almost 2.4 million takedown notices related to P2P and BitTorrent file sharing, an increase of more than 200 percent over the same period in 2008.
Its a very interesting to see the numbers in this article and people wonder why we have an economy problem, this is happening everywhere not just in software. Also in the first half of 2009, BSA more than doubled its impact with its in-house Internet "crawler" requesting the removal of almost 103,000 torrent files from nine of the largest BitTorrent hosting sites worldwide. These torrent files were being used by nearly 2.9 million individuals to download software with a retail value of more than $974 million.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/bsa-report-reveals-scope-online-software-piracy/
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