| A malicious software researcher finds herself in company with First Lady Michelle Obama and science fiction author Neil Gaiman: booted from the web by hard-headed copyright protection algorithms.
Mila Parkour, a researcher who operates the Contagio malware blog, said on Thursday that she had been kicked off the cloud-based hosting service Mediafire, after compressed and encrypted Windows patches and malware samples she stored on its site were flagged as "copyrighted material."
Parkour said that she was notified on Thursday that her account on Mediafire was suspended and content she posted had been flagged and removed for violations of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
In particular, Parkour said the site objected to her post of a Microsoft patch and what she described as "an old, malicious PDF attachment" linked to phishing attacks in 2010. Parkour wrote about the malicious attachment on her blog here.
Parkour, an independent security researcher based in Washington D.C., is a noted expert on malicious software. Her Contagio website, is an oft-cited resource for analysis of malicious code and attacks Read More .. |