For years Hollywood has waged a war on piracy, using digital rights management technologies to fight bootleggers who illegally copy movies and distribute them. For just as long, hackers have found ...

Piracy, the theft of copyrighted and protected content somehow, has always been around, since the dawn of media. From handwritten copies of borrowed books to teams of hundreds of hackers poring over ...

For the second time in as many years, Google is working to fix a weakness in its Widevine digital rights management (DRM) technology used by online streaming sites like Disney, Hulu and Netflix to ...

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A bug in the popular anti-piracy framework allows a side-channel attack on premium content. Researchers have used a proof-of-concept (PoC) side-channel attack to download an unencrypted raw file for ...

Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability in the Google Chrome browser that could allow users to bypass itscopy protection system and download content from streaming video services like ...

A British security researcher has cracked the L3 protection level of Google's Widevine digital rights management (DRM) technology. The hack can allow the researcher to decrypt content transferred via ...

To trust that Android smartphones and many other devices are secure from piracy, these popular streaming services make use of Google’s Widevine DRM platform. As one of the industry’s oldest DRM ...

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Security researchers have found an exploit in the DRM system of Google’s Chrome browser that makes it easy for pirates to rip encrypted videos straight from the web. David Livshits from Israel’s Cyber ...