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Amazon Bans Sales of Media Player Boxes That Promote Piracy

Amazon Bans Sales of Media Player Boxes That Promote Piracy

Amazon is taking a tough stance against vendors who sell fully-loaded Kodi boxes and other “pirate” media players through its platform. From a report: The store now explicitly bans media players that “promote” or “suggest” the facilitation of piracy. Sellers…

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Microsoft Is Shutting Down CodePlex

Microsoft Is Shutting Down CodePlex

Microsoft corporate vice president Brian Harry announced in a blog post today that they are shutting down CodePlex, its service for hosting repositories of open source software. “As of this post, we’ve disabled the ability to create new CodePlex projects,”…

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Threatpost News Wrap, March 31, 2017

Threatpost News Wrap, March 31, 2017

This year’s Security Analyst Summit is previewed and the news of the week is discussed, including a Microsoft IIS zero day, a new Mirai variant, and the broadband privacy ruling.

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