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Cryptic Studios Hack Discovered…From December 2010
In a statement released just yesterday Cryptic Game Studios—developer of City of Heroes, Champions Online, Star Trek Online, and a few other online game titles—revealed that they discovered that their systems have been hacked…in December 2010. The delay? The statement enlightens readers that they discovered the hack from almost a year and a half ago ...
CISPA Passed by U.S. House of Representatives in Last Minute Vote
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or H.R. 3523, just passed the U.S. House of Representatives after the day-long hearing. Originally expected to be debated on the floor of the House today for a vote tomorrow, the bill’s supporters decided to push the vote today and it went through with 248 to 168. The ...
Google Drive Sparks Security Concerns but It’s Not that Different From Other Personal Cloud Offerings
The much-anticipated, somewhat anticlimactic launch of Google Drive has finally landed on the digital shores amid the personal cloud market. Like every other cloud-storage service available to individuals such as Dropbox, Box.net, Skydrive, and similar it comes with a privacy policy and a terms of service that has raised some eyebrows about how their data ...
Vibanko.com Closure Imminent: Move Those Bitcoins Before May 1st
It looks like the Bitcoin e-wallet service Vibanko.com by Bitcoin Consultancy—who also run the Bitcoin exchange Intersango —will be shutting down by May 1st 2012. An e-mail from Vibanko CTO Patrick Strateman has been sent out to warn about the imminent closure. A short warning appears on the Vibanko.com website as an announcement: Vibanko is no longer ...
Dropbox and Google Drive Inching into Megaupload “Criminal Conspiracy” Territory
The scars left in the cloud-storage industry are still red and angry after the FBI raided and shut down the popular, worldwide cyberlocker service Megaupload in January, so when people started to notice other cyberlockers fall afoul of the same issues, concern rises. Recently, Dropbox started to offer a service that allows users to directly ...
Video Chat While You Dominate on the PS Vita with Skype April 25th
Tomorrow, Skype will appear in the app store for Sony’s magnificent handheld PlayStation Vita—and the device is perfect for it. The Vita has two high quality cameras (forward and rear) and there are both Wi-Fi and 3G models capable of connecting to the Internet. Perfect for the gamer on-the-go who also wants to stay in ...
Understanding CISPA: How the Internet Must Take its Privacy Back
Today legislators in the House of Representatives will vote on HR 3525 aka CISPA amidst a small groundswell of protest from grumbling arenas of the Internet. After watching the climatic battle over SOPA, which also had extremely compelling reasons to be concerned about it, the prickling against CISPA has been extremely subdued. Part of this ...
IT Security Survey Reveals Concerns About Anonymous, China, and Disclosure Expectations
According to a survey plied recently in 2012 by Massachusetts-based Bit9, a company dedicated to providing trust-based security services for malware and breach detection, much of the IT industry is concerned about hactivists. Expectations form IT professionals have Anonymous/ hacktivists” leading the survey at 61 percent, “cyber criminals” follows, and “nation states” rank third, with ...
Cybersecurity Bill CISPA With Massive Privacy-Flaws Goes to House Vote Next Friday
The United States needs an intelligent, thoughtful front on policy involving cybersecurity but the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA or HR 3523) promotes a blunder that would open numerous citizens to untold violations of their privacy—and therefore their security. The bill has been rewritten a few times and the current draft still fails ...
Anonymous Looks to Obsolete Pastebin for Leaks With AnonPaste
The Anonymous hactivist collective has seen a tool arise from amidst its ranks that seeks to replace the use of Pastebin for releasing manifestos, articles of leaked data, and evidence of past exploits (often criminal or sensitive in nature.) This project, called “AnonPaste” has been announced in a joint statement between Anonymous and a yet-unknown ...