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Anonymous/AntiSec Defaces Panda Security Website in Revenge
Website defacement has become the mainstay of what essentially boils down to cybervandalism—and, just like its inner-city variant, it’s used as a medium to spread both playful and political messages. Yesterday, a multitude of subdomains belonging to security firm Panda Security were obliterated and replaced with cyber-graffiti scrawls, including a YouTube video, and the text-output ...
Dwolla Caught in Legal Feud with Bitcoin Exchange TradeHill for $2 Million
In what has all the hallmarks of a legal fiasco, Bitcoin exchange TradeHill has filed suit against payment network startup Dwolla and alleged racketeering, intentional misrepresentation, false advertising, and breach of contract, among other violations. TradeHill is claiming that Dwolla has cost them at lest $2 million in damages. Adrianne Jeffries of Betabeat has the ...
2011 Provides a Record Year for PC Video Game Sales, Cloud and F2P Dominate
As an industry and entertainment avenue video games intersect across numerous layers of human life, so when the PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA) came out with their “Horizons” research report, it really wasn’t a surprise that 2011 was a record year for the growth of PC gaming sales. Sales have been bolstered not just by the ...
US Files for Extradition of Megaupload Suspects at Last Minute
Just when you thought the Megaupload saga has reached a fever pitch and couldn’t climb any further up drama mountain, US authorities waited until the eleventh-hour to file extradition papers on the suspects in the case. The United Statesas officially requested the extradition of Kim Dotcom and three of his coworkers related to the case ...
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 ...