Fox Goes After YouTube for ‘24′ Leak

In a move to uncover who uploaded pirated episodes of popular television series “24″ and “The Simpsons,” Twentieth Century Fox has subpoenaed video-sharing sites YouTube and LiveDigital, The Wall Street Journal reported.The News Corp. studio filed the subpoenas on January 18 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. According to the Journal, the subpoenas ask YouTube and LiveDigital to divulge identifying information for the subscriber who posted the shows so Fox can stop the infringement.

Fox’s subpoenas noted that the entire four-hour premier of 24 appeared on YouTube before it was originally broadcast on television. Twelve episodes of the Simpsons were also being distributed on YouTube, according to the Journal.

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Hackers Actively Exploit New Microsoft Word Flaw

According to security researchers at Symantec, hackers have begun actively exploiting a new vulnerability in Microsoft Word that could allow them to take complete control of a victim’s computer. Symantec sounded the alarm about the Word attack on Thursday.The new Word hack is called a “zero-day attack” because hackers began exploiting the vulnerability on the same day the flaw was publicly disclosed. Rated “extremely critical,” the unpatched vulnerability follows on the heels of three other unpatched Microsoft Word flaws.

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