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8 Best uTorrent Alternatives For Downloading Torrent Files In 2019

uTorrent was one of the best torrent clients at one point until BitTorrent bought it. It had a neat interface with no spammy ads that made it popular amongst those who use torrent for downloading movies, tv shows, and games. Earlier, it was an open source torrent client but that changed after BitTorrent acquired it […]

TRON Cryptocurrency Founder Will Buy BitTorrent, uTorrent For $140 Million

BitTorrent, the company that owns the popular uTorrent file-sharing client, has been quietly sold for $ 140 million in cash to Justin Sun, the founder of the TRON Cryptocurrency blockchain start-up. TRON cryptocurrency is a decentralized platform for entertainment and content sharing using blockchain technology and distributed storage technology. Allows users to publish content without […]

How To Use uTorrent Web To Download And Stream Torrents In Your Browser?

An appealing user interface is a de facto requirement in modern software that has become better and better over the years. The world of BitTorrent clients is no different. While we still have those somewhat ugly but feature-packed torrent downloaders, there are many good looking options available for everyday torrent downloaders. What is uTorrent Web? […]

uTorrent bugs let websites control your computer and steal your downloads

Developers are in the process of releasing updates to fix the critical flaws. Two versions of uTorrent, one of the Internet’s most widely used BitTorrent apps, have easy-to-exploit vulnerabilities that allow attackers to execute code, access downloaded files, and snoop on download histories, a Google Project Zero researcher said. uTorrent developers are in the process […]

5 Best Torrent Clients For Mac OS X (2017 Edition)

Short Bytes: By looking at the Mac OS X torrent clients for ease of use and features, less annoying advertising and no toolbar attached, we came up with a list of the best programs. The best torrent clients for Mac OS X includes the likes of uTorrent, Transmission, Deluge, etc. You can use these torrenting programs for getting […]

New KickAss Torrent Website Is Back Again

Kickass Torrents is again from the lifeless! Again in July, the world’s largest and most infamous BitTorrent distribution web page Kickass Torrents (KAT) with thousands and thousands of unique daily visitors turned into shut down by the U.S. government following the arrest of its alleged owner Artem Vaulin. rapidly after the shutdown, a collection of […]

BitTorrent Patches Flaw That Allowed Website Killing DRDoS Attacks

Short Bytes: Today in its blog, BitTorrent announced that it has fixed a vulnerability that allowed the attackers to take down websites by carrying out distributed reflective denial of service attacks (DRDoS). Recently Florian Adamsky gave a presentation at a USENIX Workshop tell the possibilities of exploiting UDP-based protocols for DRDoS attacks. uTorrent, BitTorrent, and […]

BitTorrent kills bug that turns networks into a website-slaying weapon

Reflective technique would let attacker amplify traffic and flood targets. BitTorrent has fixed a flaw in its technology that quietly turns file-sharing networks into weapons capable of blasting websites and other internet servers offline. The San Francisco company said Thursday the patch for its libuTP software will stop miscreants from abusing the peer-to-peer protocol to […]

uTorrent Installs a Bitcoin Miner to Steal CPU Power from Your PC

uTorrent is one of the most popular torrent clients out there and a new update in the software has brought some unwanted package along with itself. Along with the new update, your PC may be running a Bitcoin miner as a background process without letting you know. This new upgraded version is 3.4.2 build 28913. […]