Overlay networks and peer-to-peer (P2P) systems form a cornerstone of modern distributed computing, offering resilient, scalable frameworks for resource sharing and content distribution. By creating a ...

In the world of P2P client software, there are two major contenders to the throne: Kazaa and Morpheus. In contrast to the many lesser-known file-sharing clients, both Kazaa and Morpheus have ...

Peer-to-peer networking has caused a dramatic increase in Internet traffic. Today, the major P2P user is the consumer, and the major application is media file sharing. Music, movies and the like now ...

If you're a defense contractor, here's hoping you haven't shared anything at work via P2P. Computer systems located in Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia are scouring computer peer-to-peer ...

Corporate and government documents containing confidential and sometimes classified data are increasingly getting exposed through the use of peer-to-peer networks on computers holding the sensitive ...

Researchers at Royal Philips Electronics are developing new "fingerprinting" technology that could automatically identify and block transmission of digital-video files, potentially handing movie ...

A California company has quietly attached its software to millions of downloads of the popular Kazaa file-trading program and plans to remotely "turn on" people's PCs, welding them into a new network ...

I'm not going to get into the political and other considerations here, but he has an economic and technical basis for his argument. With that as preamble, I found it noteworthy that none of the ...

In an illustration of how desperate the entertainment industry is to destroy P2P networks, the RIAA is attempting to smear file trading sites with the charge that they support and encourage the ...

In the letters, the FTC warned schools, businesses and local governments that widespread data leaks occurred after their employees swapped music via P2P networks, which exposed copious personal ...

Anomali Labs has found a new kind of malware(they call it IPStorm) that is controlled by peer-to-peer (p2p) communications rather than by a client-server model. The ...