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A continuous series of high-profile hacker attacks on verified Twitter accounts have raised serious concerns about Twitter's porous security measures.

Internet mogul Kim Dotcom said on Thursday he was considering taking legal action against tech giants such as Twitter, Google and Facebook for infringing copyright on a security measure he invented.

Megaupload founder and Internet tycoon Kim Dotcom claimed via Twitter Wednesday that he invented Two Step Authentication, a method of online security that adds a layer of log-in protection, and called on major Internet players to respect his copyright.

File hosting and sharing website Rapidshare has laid off 45 of its 60 employees this week, according to a report by Swiss news site 20min.

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has won the right to demand the United States hand over all the evidence in its online piracy case against the internet entrepreneur, New Zealand's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

New Zealand's highest court ruled Thursday that it will hear an appeal by Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and three colleagues as they seek to avoid extradition to the United States.

The Pirate Bay co-founder wants to run as a candidate for the Finnish Pirate Party, he said in a blog post on Tuesday announcing his candidacy to the European Union's directly-elected legislative body.

Kim Dotcom has ordered the removal from his Mega file-storage service design plans for a controversial one-bullet plastic gun.

ELIZABETH JACKSON: The lawyers for internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom this week called for a US Congressional inquiry into what they say is the unlawful prosecution of their client by the US justice system.

INTERNET mogul Kim Dotcom says designs for a 3D-printed gun are "scary" and he has deleted public links to its blueprints from his new file-sharing website.

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PanARMENIAN.Net - Kim Dotcom and two lawyers, Robert Amsterdam and Ira P. Rothken, have published a white paper defending the Internet entrepreneur against a criminal prosecution issued by the United States government, according to The Next Web.

WHITE PAPER: Dossier by Kim Dotcom's lawyer slams US and New Zealand governments and details how crimes he is accused of do not exist in law.

Exhibiting no concern for the inevitably deadly consequences of his actions, 25-year-old Texas law student Cody Wilson hopes to bring about "a complete explosion of all available gun laws" with his designs for 3-D printable firearms.

New Zealand unveiled plans on Monday to close a loophole exposed when Internet tycoon Kim Dotcom was illegally spied on by allowing its foreign intelligence agency to spy on local residents.

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