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Megaupload.com Debacle Spawns Largest Anonymous DDoS Attack Yet
Yesterday, authorities announced a raid on Megaupload—a now popular Hong Kong-based file sharing site locked in a dramatic legal spat with Universal—a mere day after the highly publicized web-wide SOPA blackout date. The action brought the hactivist collective Anonymous buzzing down from the Internet as if the movie and music industry and the US government ...
GM Innovates Augmented Reality “Smart Glass” Technology for Back Seat Drivers
In what feels like it could be a better innovation for windscreen dashboard gauges, Detroit-based General Motors is pushing forward a program to make backseat riders less bored during a drive. Looking at psychological reports that passengers in the backseat feel disconnected from their environment, they asked researchers to come up with a design for ...
Bitcoin Sneaks Into Popular TV Drama via The Good Wife
It’s always a good sign when a particular underground innovation finds its way into popular media—and although I’ve been wondering when it would show up on “ripped from the headlines” Law & Order as some sort of badly designed drama it appeared on CBS’s legal thriller The Good Wife instead. During the episode in question a enigmatic maker of ...
Israel vs. Saudi Arabia Hacks Heating Up as Israeli Hackers Respond In Kind
Monday, we reported that Saudi Arabian hackers—one under the handle of ox0mar and with the group named Group-xp—hit Israeli financial sector websites and an airline carrier causing both considerable lag but did not take them offline. This came shortly after last week’s publication of 400,000 Israeli credit card numbers (a small percentage of which were ...
CloudFlare Develops Anti-SOPA/PROTECT-IP App Just in Time for Blackout
Tomorrow will be a big day for sites protesting against the “Stop Online Piracy Act” dubbed the “Internet blacklist bill” by opponents and the PROTECT-IP bill. January 18 is the date set by numerous large websites and social media to darken themselves in order to protest and educate customers about these two bills before the ...
We’re Waiting: Hacker Threatened to Release Full Source Code for Norton Antivirus
Saturday, a hacker going by the handle of Yama Tough threatened via Twitter that they would release the source code of Symantec’s flagship antivirus software product Norton Antivirus on Tuesday. “This coming Tuesday behold the full Norton Antivirus 1,7Gb src, the rest will follow,” Yama Tough wrote. The history of the potential leaked code is ...
Symantec Acquisition of LiveOffice Gives Business a Cloud Booster-Shot
Monday, anti-virus software vendor Symantec announced their acquisition of LiveOffice, cloud archiving and storage vendor. While being best known for their anti-virus and spam protection software, Symantec has also had a long history of suites for general computer maintenance and providing software infrastructure. This acquisition adds yet another reason to combine security with communication and ...
Cyber-Tensions Between Saudi Arabia and Israel on the Rise as Hackers Hit Stock Exchange and Airline Websites
Israel is receiving lessons in cyberwarfare as hackers continue to target their corporations and infrastructure—on Monday, hackers slowed (but did not break) the website for the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al Israel Airlines took down their website after hacker, 0xOmar, who has been linked to the Saudi hacking crew group-xp, warned that it ...
EverQuest 2 Player Base Swells 300% Since Switching to Free-to-Play
In an ever-increasing understanding of how people play video games, massively multiplayer online gaming has been seeing a spike in interest since large subscription based games have been exploring the free-to-play model. The most recent in this venture is Sony Online Entertainment’s EverQuest 2—the spiritual and actual descendant of their extremely popular EverQuest. After switching ...
Awe Inspiring History of Bitcoin’s Development as an Unintended Music Video
David Perry, a database administrator and the author of Coding In My Sleep, has delivered to the Bitcoin community perhaps one of the most awe inspiring visualizations of Bitcoin’s developmental history. The video he produced has really taken off. “I stumbled across this excellent version control visualization tool called Gource,” writes Perry on his blog, ...