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Infragard Can’t Catch a Break: Anonymous 0wns FBI-Affiliate Once Again
June of last year, Infragard Atlanta—an affiliate with the Federal Bureau of Investigation—found themselves the target of LulzSec during their rampage across the Internet. Due to their close proximity to the FBI and law enforcement, their websites have been constant targets for vandalism. Friday morning, Anonymous announced via the Anonops blog that Infragard had yet ...
Reddit Looks to Democratized Lawmaking with “The Free Internet Act”
After the roaring success of reddit in helping combat the Internet-censorship bills SOPA and PROTECT-IP, the community there decided that they would try their hand at drafting legislation. As a highly collaborative forum for discussion and a democratizing technology, reddit forwards a great opportunity for an actual “We The People” style of producing legislation or ...
Google’s Internet-enabled Spectacles Will Bring Cyberspace to Your Eyes
It looks like all those rumors about Google working on cyber-glasses are beginning to take shape and, according to reports, we might even see them on the market before the end of 2012. No more constantly flicking on a smartphone to check on the state of the world, instead we’ll be able to stream that ...
Stuxnet: Still a Telling Feat of Political Cyberwar Over a Year Later
The existence of Stuxnet really brings modern cyberwar into the realm of life imitating science fiction. The video speaks about how Stuxnet is the implicit case for weaponized code—truthfully any tool can be turned into a weapon. The compelling case for this virus is that it was designed with only one purpose: to infect and ...
The Battle Over The Pirate Bay Censorship Rages On Across Europe
Thunderstorms have been rumbling in the cloud over what to do with the file sharing site, The Pirate Bay, and most of the drama centers around how different nations treat copyright infringement. As a site TPB would exist in a sort of legal limbo because the site does not provide direct access to files (copyrighted ...
Google’s Self-Driving Cars May Soon Be Driving Legally in Nevada
In what will be a momentous occasion for Google, Nevada has just unveiled the intent to draft legislation that will make them the first state in the United States to approve autonomous, self-driving cars. As we at SiliconANGLE noticed before, the search giant with a penchant for pushing the technological envelope had been testing self-driving ...
Anonymous Defaces U.S Government Consumer and FTC Websites Over ACTA with Scathing Remarks, Video
Early Friday morning, Anonymous struck a several U.S. government websites to protest the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), an extremely controversial trade agreement between multiple nations that has been dubbed the next version of SOPA and PIPA (recently defeated copyright legislation in the U.S.) In their attack, the hactivist collective claims to have taken an entire ...
Anonymous Threatens To Shut Down the Internet; the FBI Could Darken the Cloud Instead March 8
Since 2011, users of the Internet have gotten used to Anonymous threatening to take numerous highly trafficked websites offline—as they successfully do so to many political websites for a few hours at a time—but many of these threats have been for naught. Recently, it’s come to light that a cell of the hactivist collective published ...
TradeHill Suspends Bitcoin Trading, Refunds Customers
It’s been a strange and rocky month for the Bitcoin economy with the loss of the payment network Paxum last week and now TradeHill suspending trades dealing with the cryptocurrency. In an open letter to TradeHill clients, CEO Jared Kenna, addressed the situation apologetically citing the sudden withdrawal of $100,000 by a payment processor and ...
Anonymous Busy Over Weekend Attacking CIA, Mexico, Greece, Alabama DHS Websites
It’s been an extremely busy weekend for Anonymous hactivist cells who have struck out at government and police websites across the globe. On Friday, the website for the CIA was reported as having gone down. Multiple reports that it had gone down went out and even CNN verified that it had been taken offline. Asked ...