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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 ...
Steam: Hackers Accessed Backup Copy of Database in November 2011
Over the weekend, Valve’s consumer-class cloud-based game delivery service, Steam had an announcement about the hack that affected their service in November 2011. Gabe Newell, CEO of Steam, told users that while hackers had not accessed Steam passwords, they did get personal and financial information from a backup database. Gamers who use the Steam service ...
Syrian Officials Discover When They Choose Bad Passwords, Anonymous Will Get In
As a democratizing agent, the Internet gives access to a multitude of people to a multitude of targets and Syrian President Bashar Assad’s office discovered recently that extremely poor Internet security acts like cracks in the dyke—the Internet will get in. On Monday, the hactivist collective Anonymous breached the security on the office’s e-mails and ...
Video Game Developer Double Fine Raises $1 Million Overnight with Kickstarter
Best known for their hit video game Psychonauts and Brutal Legend starring Jack Black, Double Fine’s founder, Tim Schafer, decided to eschew the convention of pitching an idea to a publisher and decided to use crowdfunding site Kickstarter to pitch directly to fans. Schafer’s intent was to raise $400,000 over 33 days for the development ...
Google Wallet Security Woes Don’t Reflect Poorly on NFC or Mobility
With the climb of mobile banking, and now the event horizon for the use of mobile phones as wallets, we’re going to start seeing a great deal more security issues also appear in this financial forest. Recently, a security research team discovered that the PIN number used by Google Wallet to secure payments on-the-go could ...
Massively Multiplayer Online Games as a Model for Business Collaboration
Video games aren’t just a wave of the future; they’re the current reality for millions of players who take to their consoles and PCs every day. The video game industry is the fastest growing entertainment market on Earth right now and we’re constantly seeing new innovations extend from it that effect as-yet-unknown markets. One of those regions ...
Symantec Code Leak Happens Where Sidewalk Ends in Law Enforcement Sting Attempt
The source code stolen from Symantec in 2006 has been waiting in limbo for the past month as part of a hostage negotiation between the hacker Yama Tough and a persona invented by law enforcement officials to attempt to get the hacker to reveal themselves. This story first began to unfold back in January when ...