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CloudFlare Speaks Out About Their Experience Hosting LulzSec
“You have my permission. — Jack Sparrow” That’s what a representative of LulzSec told CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince when he asked permission to tell the tale of rough water and a siege on the cyberseas that resulted from his company protecting the website of the now-infamous hacker group. In June 2010, during the heyday of ...
Linode Breach Leads to Massive Heist of 46,000 BTC from Bitcoinica, Faucet
Numerous media sources are reporting now on a massive heist of Bitcoin wallets as the result of the hack of the cloud-hosting provider Linode. Last night, Ars Technica was able to confirm that over 46,703 BTC (almost $228,845 USD worth) had been stolen by the hackers from wallets stored on Linode’s servers even Marek Palatinus ...
Game Dev Starbreeze Reaches Out to Pirates, Offers Jobs
Alongside the release of the Xbox 360 version of EA’s Syndicate came the expected releases from the warez Scene. With each upcoming release of a game, the warez community does its best to beat the release date to the wires of the Internet—and with Syndicate they managed it by days. In a fun little bit ...
Pervasive Software DataRush Will Make Hadoop “Faster and Easier”
Mike Hoskins, CTO, EVP Pervasive Software, says that in a nutshell Pervasive is making Hadoop “faster and easier.” It’s all about making big data processing and data mining both faster and easier. While it’s not true that Hadoop is either slow or hard, the implementation of the technology is still immature and it’s being adapted ...
Microsoft’s Windows Azure Experiences Outage
Reports of Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud platform having a bad day apparently cannot be exaggerated enough—customers are reporting that the system has been all-but-entirely offline for hours. According to The Register, the problems began around 9 p.m. ET on February 28 and have continued up through the waning hours of the morning on February 29. ...
Marc Smith from Social Media Research Foundation Speaks on Big Data
Social media gathers people together into communities and as people interact they produce and spin off tremendous amounts of data. That data is so considerable and detailed that they only way to approach it is through the praxis of big data theories and algorithms. Sociologist Marc Smith (@marc_smith on Twitter) with the Social Media Research ...
Kinect-enabled Shopping Cart May Aid Shoppers at Whole Foods
Now that Microsoft has released their development kit that brings Kinect software to Windows, many venues are beginning to look for applications for the video game sensor. Right now, Whole Foods is looking into a prototype that would use a Kinect system on a shopping cart to make the shopping experience a little bit more ...
ZeuS Trojan Botnet Learns a New Trick: Peer-to-Peer
In what seems to be the next evolution of malware, the Zeusbot/SpyEye Trojan network has been discovered in the wild that doesn’t rely on a centralized command-and-control server—instead, the new variants use a peer-to-peer architecture to get the job done. According an article in The Register, security researchers at Symantec have dissected the new code ...
The Pirate Scene Nimbly Adopts New x264 Video Codec
Where it might take giant corporations years to come to a conclusion on a major standards change, pirates from the video scene lead to an implementation in a matter of days, a source tells SiliconANGLE. Over the years, the video scene for many major piracy networks have used XviD as their primary encoding for video ...
Rumors Abound About Blizzard’s Free-to-Play Project
Of course, on this subject Blizzard Entertainment is mum. Best known for their mighty massively multiplayer online phenomenon and game title, World of Warcraft, the gaming studio might be looking to go where many other MMOs are starting to go: into the world of free-to-play. Recently DC Universe Online saw a huge boost in revenue ...