After its last-week ejection from Sweden, notorious file-sharing site The Pirate Bay claimed on Monday that it had set up shop in North Korea on Monday; but, tracking searches carried out by several tech websites have cast doubts on the authenticity of the claim.

On Friday, the lower house of the German parliament passed a watered-down copyright bill, which marks a notable victory for Google in Europe because it implies that the Internet search giant will not have to pay fees for displaying links to news articles.

According to security experts, government officials in over 20 European countries have been targeted by cyber criminals in by far the most sophisticated online attacks - dubbed `MiniDuke' - since the turn of the millennium.

According to a report on the TorrentFreak website, file-sharing site The Pirate Bay has moved its servers out of Sweden, and shifted them to two safer havens - Norway and Spain.

During the course of the launch of `cloud computing services' in Lagos, Information Communication Technology (ICT) firm, Business Connexion (BCX) said that one of the key reasons why Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have continued to remain in the informal sector in Nigeria is that the cost of technology in the country is quite high.

According to a report in German magazine Der Spiegel, Chinese hackers launched major hacking attacks against European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS) and steelmaker ThyssenKrupp in 2012.

After a series of cyberattacks having recently affected bigwig tech companies like Apple and Facebook, a late Friday statement by Microsoft has revealed that the company's computers had also been hacked in the same way as the other attacks.

According to the findings of a research carried out by youth volunteering charity vInspired, one-third of the young people - aged between 14 and 18 years - have been victims of online `trolling' during the last six-month period.