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Have you been following the news about Megaupload? Do you know what it is, and even if you do, would you admit it? You see, it is/was one of the world’s largest file sharing sites and it was closed down by US authorities because it was deemed to have been violating federal piracy laws. The US Justice Department, through the FBI, has even managed to arrest key executives residing in New Zealand and seven other countries, and there are distinct fears that this could be just the beginning of an...

Sony, Citi, Sega, CIA and the list grows daily. These are major operations that have had their online data compromised in the last few weeks and the world press seems to revel in reporting these lapses in security. At least it takes their attention away from 'bill shock', their other perennial favorite telco whipping horse. Although not directly involved with the latest round of breaches, the telecoms industry as a whole must be grimacing at the bad press it generates for any online services...

If you were hoping to access Reddit, Quora, FourSquare, Hootsuite, SCVNGR, Heroku, Wildfire, parts of the New York Times, ProPublica and about 70 other sites last Thursday, you may have been out of luck. It was also no fault of their own that they went offline, some for up to 36 hours, it was a cloud problem. More specifically, a problem with Amazon's cloud services otherwise known as Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute or EC2. Nevertheless, Amazon's damage control has kept the news pretty quiet...