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Korea Herald
7 days ago
- Korea Herald
Study Finds Consumers up to 65 Times More Likely to be Infected with Malware When Using Piracy Sites
ACE-Commissioned Report Analyzes Exposure to Malware, Phishing, and Other Cyber Harms Associated with Piracy Use in Southeast Asia SINGAPORE, July 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study released today and commissioned by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the world's leading antipiracy coalition, highlights the increased cyber risk for those in Southeast Asia who engage with piracy sites and services. Among other findings, the study revealed that in the worst case, local consumers are up to 65 times more likely to be infected with malware when using piracy sites as compared to legitimate websites. The report, titled "Consumer Risk from Piracy in Southeast Asia," explored activity in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Study author Dr. Paul Watters is a cybersecurity researcher and thought leader at Cyberstronomy Pty Ltd., Honorary Professor of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, and Professor of Information Systems at Holmesglen Institute. "As this study makes clear, the risks and ramifications substantially increase for those in Southeast Asia who visit piracy sites," said Watters. "Though efforts to curb digital piracy are ongoing, these stark results require additional action – such as smart tools and proven measures – to mitigate the relevant digital threats in each country." Overall, the study concluded that piracy sites—including streaming piracy platforms, P2P networks, IPTV services, scam portals, anime piracy sites, and manga repositories—carry a cyber threat risk more than 22 times higher than that of mainstream legitimate sites. "The research findings reaffirm the extensive harms piracy networks inflict upon consumers and the economy in Southeast Asia," said Larissa Knapp, Executive Vice President and Chief Content Protection Officer for the Motion Picture Association. "We applaud Dr. Watters and his team for their work in revealing the dangers of using these illicit sources, and we look forward to further collaboration with law enforcement throughout the region to detect these bad actors, deter future misdeeds, and dismantle unlawful operations that endanger a thriving creative marketplace." Other key findings from the study include: The full study is available here. About The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) is the world's leading coalition dedicated to protecting the legal creative market and reducing digital piracy. Driven by a comprehensive approach to addressing piracy through criminal referrals, civil litigation, and cease-and-desist operations, ACE has achieved many successful global enforcement actions against illegal streaming services and unauthorized content sources and their operators. Drawing upon the collective expertise and resources of more than 50 media and entertainment companies around the world—including sports channels and associations—and reinforced by the Motion Picture Association's content protection operations, ACE protects the creativity and innovation that drives the global growth of core copyright and entertainment industries. The current governing board members for ACE are Amazon, Apple TV+, Netflix, Paramount Global, Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, The Walt Disney Studios, and Warner Bros. Discovery. Charles Rivkin is Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association and Chairman of ACE.
Buzz Feed
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Jesse Watters' New Rule For Men Leaves Social Media Users Stunned: 'Now Do Trump'
Fox News host Jesse Watters added yet another rule Wednesday to his ever-growing list of what men 'should never' do. The conservative pundit drew ridicule for his latest dictum from social media users — who couldn't help but note the seeming hypocrisies. Watters appeared personally affronted by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who recently shared a picture of himself on Instagram that appeared to have been digitally altered, as the bench he was leaning against in the photo was warped around his hips. 'Rules for men: A man should never Photoshop his picture, ever,' Watters said on The Five Wednesday. 'A man who photoshops his picture is a woman. And you never shrink your hips. Why is he shrinking his hips? Does he have childbearing hips?' 'What is it about his hips that he's uncomfortable with?' he continued. Watters has given these lectures on masculinity for some time now: He previously instructed men on how they should wave and ridiculed those who accompany their wives to the grocery store. His latest pronouncement appeared to fall flat on social media. 'Now do [President Donald] Trump…. Fake Tan, Fake hair and Fake Marriage,' wrote one user on X, formerly Twitter, with another person commenting: 'Real men do whatever they want without considering what Jesse happens to think.' Real men do whatever they want without considering what Jesse happens to think. — Robert Frommer (@Robert_Frommer) July 9, 2025 @Robert_Frommer/X / Via Twitter: @Robert_Frommer Watters was asked Wednesday by co-host Harold Ford Jr. if he has ever altered a photo of himself, and seemed incapable of simply answering the question without continuing to ascribe the act to women — or bringing his wife, Emma DiGiovine, into the picture. 'Me?' Watters asked his co-host in apparent disbelief. 'Emma, but not me. No she doesn't Photoshop but she does things, I think. I don't know. Actually she doesn't. She doesn't, but you know how women do, they do stuff.' Jeffries appears to have deleted the Instagram image that set Watters off. His office did not immediately return a HuffPost request for comment about the photo-editing accusations. Watters: Rules for men. A man should never photoshop his picture ever. A man who photoshops his picture is a woman. — Acyn (@Acyn) July 9, 2025 The Democratic congressman recently broke the record for giving the longest House floor speech in US history, and did so in protest of the GOP's so-called Big Beautiful Bill — which was ultimately signed into law last week and will kick millions of people off of Medicaid. Jemal Countess / Getty Images for Families Over Billionaires Watters, a pro-Trump pundit who argued earlier this year that 'deportation' is one of the most 'beautiful' words, has previously been criticized for saying men should never eat soup in public, use a straw or drink milk shakes. His latest rule is currently receiving similar pushback on social media. Roy Rochlin / Getty Images One particularly baffled user wrote on X: 'Wtf is going on over there at Fox 'News.'' Yet no issue with caking the makeup on? Still .... THIS is the trash they put on the air? THIS is what they worry themselves with? No wonder MAGA are a bunch of ignorant idiots. — DroppinGems (@CristianHunt) July 9, 2025 @CristianHunt/X / Via Coming from a guy who wears makeup and airbrushes his whole personality. — Ryan @ (@FamilyManAI) July 9, 2025 @FamilyManAI/X / Via Watters made his take more cringe than the photo. I didn't think that was possible. — Ohio Hog Watch 🐷🥷🐷 (@OhioHogWatch) July 9, 2025 @OhioHogWatch/X / Via Jesse Watters, I'm a fan, but I can't really take man advice about Hakeem Jeffries and men not photoshopping from a grown man that has his hair and make up done 5 days a week brother. Look in the mirror bub. — JunkinJakeJones (@JunkinJakeJones) July 9, 2025 @JunkinJakeJones/X / Via
Yahoo
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jesse Watters' New Rule For Men Leaves Social Media Users Stunned: 'Now Do Trump'
Fox News host Jesse Watters added yet another rule Wednesday to his ever-growing list of what men 'should never' do. The conservative pundit drew ridicule for his latest dictum from social media users — who couldn't help but note the seeming hypocrisies. Watters appeared personally affronted by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who recently shared a picture of himself on Instagram that appeared to have been digitally altered, as the bench he was leaning against in the photo was warped around his hips. 'Rules for men: A man should never Photoshop his picture, ever,' Watters said on 'The Five' Wednesday. 'A man who Photoshops his picture is a woman. And you never shrink your hips. Why is he shrinking his hips? Does he have childbearing hips?' 'What is it about his hips that he's uncomfortable with?' he continued. Watters has given these lectures on masculinity for some time now: He previously instructed men on how they should wave and ridiculed those who accompany their wives to the grocery store. His latest pronouncement appeared to fall flat on social media. 'Now do [President Donald] Trump…. Fake Tan, Fake hair and Fake Marriage,' wrote one user on X, formerly Twitter, with another person commenting: 'Real men do whatever they want without considering what Jesse happens to think.' Watters was asked Wednesday by co-host Harold Ford Jr. if he has ever altered a photo of himself, and seemed incapable of simply answering the question without continuing to ascribe the act to women — or bringing his wife, Emma DiGiovine, into the picture. 'Me?' Watters asked his co-host in apparent disbelief. 'Emma, but not me. No she doesn't Photoshop but she does things, I think. I don't know. Actually she doesn't. She doesn't, but you know how women do, they do stuff.' Watters: Rules for men. A man should never photoshop his picture ever. A man who photoshops his picture is a woman. — Acyn (@Acyn) July 9, 2025 Jeffries appears to have deleted the Instagram image that set Watters off. His office did not immediately return a HuffPost request for comment about the photo-editing accusations. The Democratic congressman recently broke the record for giving the longest House floor speech in U.S. history, and did so in protest of the GOP's so-called Big Beautiful Bill — which was ultimately signed into law last week and will kick millions of people off of Medicaid. Watters, a pro-Trump pundit who argued earlier this year that 'deportation' is one of the most 'beautiful' words, has previously been criticized for saying men should never eat soup in public, use a straw or drink milk shakes. His latest rule is currently receiving similar pushback on social media. One particularly baffled user wrote on X: 'Wtf is going on over there at Fox 'News.'' Yet no issue with caking the makeup on?Still .... THIS is the trash they put on the air? THIS is what they worry themselves with?No wonder MAGA are a bunch of ignorant idiots. — DroppinGems (@CristianHunt) July 9, 2025 Coming from a guy who wears makeup and airbrushes his whole personality. — Ryan @ (@FamilyManAI) July 9, 2025 Watters made his take more cringe than the photo. I didn't think that was possible. — Ohio Hog Watch 🐷🥷🐷 (@OhioHogWatch) July 9, 2025 Jesse Watters, I'm a fan, but I can't really take man advice about Hakeem Jeffries and men not photoshopping from a grown man that has his hair and make up done 5 days a week brother. Look in the mirror bub. — JunkinJakeJones (@JunkinJakeJones) July 9, 2025 OOPS!! Stephen Miller's Fox News Glitch Goes Viral For Most Poetic Reason Fox News Reporter Confronts Karoline Leavitt Over Bondi's Epstein Contradiction Lawrence O'Donnell Points To 5 Words From Trump As The Brutal 'Truth' Of His Presidency
Yahoo
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jesse Watters' New Rule For Men Leaves Social Media Users Stunned: 'Now Do Trump'
Fox News host Jesse Watters added yet another rule Wednesday to his ever-growing list of what men 'should never' do. The conservative pundit drew ridicule for his latest dictum from social media users — who couldn't help but note the seeming hypocrisies. Watters appeared personally affronted by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who recently shared a picture of himself on Instagram that appeared to have been digitally altered, as the bench he was leaning against in the photo was warped around his hips. 'Rules for men: A man should never Photoshop his picture, ever,' Watters said on 'The Five' Wednesday. 'A man who Photoshops his picture is a woman. And you never shrink your hips. Why is he shrinking his hips? Does he have childbearing hips?' 'What is it about his hips that he's uncomfortable with?' he continued. Watters has given these lectures on masculinity for some time now: He previously instructed men on how they should wave and ridiculed those who accompany their wives to the grocery store. His latest pronouncement appeared to fall flat on social media. 'Now do [President Donald] Trump…. Fake Tan, Fake hair and Fake Marriage,' wrote one user on X, formerly Twitter, with another person commenting: 'Real men do whatever they want without considering what Jesse happens to think.' Watters was asked Wednesday by co-host Harold Ford Jr. if he has ever altered a photo of himself, and seemed incapable of simply answering the question without continuing to ascribe the act to women — or bringing his wife, Emma DiGiovine, into the picture. 'Me?' Watters asked his co-host in apparent disbelief. 'Emma, but not me. No she doesn't Photoshop but she does things, I think. I don't know. Actually she doesn't. She doesn't, but you know how women do, they do stuff.' Watters: Rules for men. A man should never photoshop his picture ever. A man who photoshops his picture is a woman. — Acyn (@Acyn) July 9, 2025 Jeffries appears to have deleted the Instagram image that set Watters off. His office did not immediately return a HuffPost request for comment about the photo-editing accusations. The Democratic congressman recently broke the record for giving the longest House floor speech in U.S. history, and did so in protest of the GOP's so-called Big Beautiful Bill — which was ultimately signed into law last week and will kick millions of people off of Medicaid. Watters, a pro-Trump pundit who argued earlier this year that 'deportation' is one of the most 'beautiful' words, has previously been criticized for saying men should never eat soup in public, use a straw or drink milk shakes. His latest rule is currently receiving similar pushback on social media. One particularly baffled user wrote on X: 'Wtf is going on over there at Fox 'News.'' Yet no issue with caking the makeup on?Still .... THIS is the trash they put on the air? THIS is what they worry themselves with?No wonder MAGA are a bunch of ignorant idiots. — DroppinGems (@CristianHunt) July 9, 2025 Coming from a guy who wears makeup and airbrushes his whole personality. — Ryan @ (@FamilyManAI) July 9, 2025 Watters made his take more cringe than the photo. I didn't think that was possible. — Ohio Hog Watch 🐷🥷🐷 (@OhioHogWatch) July 9, 2025 Jesse Watters, I'm a fan, but I can't really take man advice about Hakeem Jeffries and men not photoshopping from a grown man that has his hair and make up done 5 days a week brother. Look in the mirror bub. — JunkinJakeJones (@JunkinJakeJones) July 9, 2025 OOPS!! Stephen Miller's Fox News Glitch Goes Viral For Most Poetic Reason Fox News Reporter Confronts Karoline Leavitt Over Bondi's Epstein Contradiction Lawrence O'Donnell Points To 5 Words From Trump As The Brutal 'Truth' Of His Presidency
Black America Web
02-07-2025
- Politics
- Black America Web
Op-Ed: Creepy Fox News Hosts Speaks On Rep. Jasmine Crockett's Personal Life, Offers To Set Her Up With ‘White' Friend
Source: Either Fox News host Jesse Watters is a despicable misogynist who has no respect for successful, career-oriented Black women whatsoever—or he's a despicable misogynist who has a secret crush on Rep. Jasmine Crockett. During a segment of 'The Five' last Thursday, Watters went out of his way to bring Crockett's personal life into a political discussion that never would have devolved into such comments if she were a white man who happened to be unmarried. Watters claimed he 'researched' Crockett, which apparently meant he scoured social media to find out her relationship status. 'She's single, she's 43, she's never been married,' he said of Crockett, who is actually 44. 'I'm trying to figure out what makes her tick. I think I can set her up with someone. I know a guy in D.C. — he's white, hopefully that's not a problem — but he will make her happy,' Watters continued. 'And maybe then she will not hate everybody else besides herself so much.' So, a few things: First, in what world does Jasmine Crockett 'hate everybody else besides herself?' Where does that even come from? Just because Crockett is one of the few Democrats in Congress right now who's willing to speak plainly about the 'idiots' currently running the federal government, the GOP and their constituents doesn't mean she hates everyone indiscriminately, especially when those same idiots have taken shots at her intelligence, called her 'ghetto' for defending herself, falsely accused her of trying to portray herself as 'hood' and 'gangsta,' challenged her to a physical fight, and made inappropriate comments about her personal appearance on the House floor. Meanwhile, MAGA conservatives like Watters appear to hate Black women, Black activists, immigrants, Muslims, liberals, Democrats, LGBTQ folks and the rest of the ubiquitous 'woke.' In fact, when Watters started talking about Crockett's marital status and whatever (probably imaginary) white friend he wants to set her up with, it was in response to Crockett criticizing the Trump administration's cruel, Constitution-defying immigration policies as well as President Donald Trump's consistently hateful, bigoted and dehumanizing attitude towards immigrants. The haters who hate everyone who is not like themselves are in the White House, at MAGA rallies and on Fox News. Watters is just out here projecting. Also, I'm pretty sure he's actually his white friend in D.C. who wants to get all up in Crockett's DMs. I mean, come on, Watters, 'I'm trying to figure out what makes her tick' is basically the catalyst of every '80s and '90s rom-com ever. You don't need to make up some fictional friend just to shoot your shot, bro. Even if Watters' friend—who is presumably age-appropriate for Crockett and yet also unmarried—is real, he has to be the kind of white guy who would tell the congresswoman, 'You're pretty for a colored girl.' Watters' imaginary white friend (who is probably himself) definitely has slavery roleplay fantasies and asked a Black girl out to his high school prom by holding up a sign that read, 'If I was Black, I'd be picking cotton…but I'm white so I'm picking you!' Look, I get that single MAGA men are having a rough go of it on dating sites, but that's no reason to make it a Black woman's problem. Go holla at the 53%. On a serious note, Watters was, as usual, being disgusting, and, according to experts, he and his ilk are compensating for their own inadequacy when they make remarks like these about women like Crockett. From HuffPost: Kari J. Winter, a professor of American studies at the University at Buffalo whose expertise includes gender, feminism, race and class, said that Watters targeting Crockett — who often faces racist and anti-Black attacks online — just proves one thing about a lot of her critics: ″[They] target her with racist, misogynistic hate speech not only because they embrace sexist white supremacist values, but also because they are desperate to avoid responding to her points and policies,' she said. 'Trump's anti-immigrant actions are illegal and unconscionable. What can his sycophants say? They have nothing. Therefore, they are 100% focused on riling up rather than informing their audience,' Winter said. 'They throw out every vile, outrageous insult they can think of in order to steal our attention away from the Trump administration's alarming, illegal, democracy-undermining actions.' Winter added that Crockett is 'whip-smart, courageous and eloquent' and that the congresswoman 'understands that a just legal system is the foundation of democracy.' Monica Cwynar, a licensed clinical social worker with Thriveworks, who specializes in trauma and coping skills, said that as a Black therapist, she believes 'personal attacks, especially against women of color like Congresswoman Crockett, detract from the real issues at hand and reflect entrenched sexism and racism in our public discourse.' 'Such remarks are not only unproductive but also deeply harmful, as they overshadow important policy discussions and contribute to a culture where personal denigration is prioritized over substantive critique,' she continued. Cwynar said that comments like Watters' work to diminish 'the voices of women in politics' and reinforce 'damaging stereotypes.' And even if Watters made the remark about Crockett in jest, making those types of comments about a woman's relationship status — especially in a public forum — 'reinforces harmful societal norms' and 'perpetuates a misogynistic narrative that suggests [a woman's] worth is tied to having a man in their lives,' Cwynar said. We all saw throughout former VP Kamala Harris' presidential campaign that these men absolutely do believe a woman's worth is tied to her serving as a wife and mother. These are sad little men. Sad. SEE ALSO: Op-Ed: Racist Fox News Host Calls Karine Jean-Pierre 'DEI Tapper' After She Released A Book On President Joe Biden It's About Time We Give Jasmine Crockett Her Flowers [Op-Ed] SEE ALSO Op-Ed: Creepy Fox News Hosts Speaks On Rep. Jasmine Crockett's Personal Life, Offers To Set Her Up With 'White' Friend was originally published on
