Decentralized file sharing — using blockchain technology to share data without depending on a centralized server — is often praised for its redundancy, security and censorship resistance. Yet, despite ...

When technicians from Palo Alto Networks installed one of the company’s firewalls in a Fortune 100 company, they were surprised when the device began examining a massive data stream in and out of the ...

Worse yet, Internet criminals know this, and they are data-mining filesharing networks,” While Mark Gorton, chairman of LimeWire LLC, said his company “takes the problem of inadvertent file-sharing ...

As centralized clouds and traditional decentralized solutions face limitations, a new approach to file-sharing enhances data security, scalability and control. Decentralization is a core principle ...

The recent announcement by the FTC that sensitive information from nearly 100 organizations had been compromised through peer-to-peer file-sharing networks underscores the risks of this technology.

A software company and its parent are claiming they hold patent rights to widely used Internet song-swapping technology, and they are demanding that several file-sharing networks obtain licenses in ...