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November Fifth Looms Large With Anonymous Plot vs. Fox News, Banks
“Remember, remember the fifth of November, the gunpowder, treason and plot.” Perhaps we should update that old Guy Fawke’s nursery rhyme greatly popularized by Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta to mention the “Anonymous cyberattack and plot.” The hactivist collective developed a meme penchant for wearing Guy Fawke’s masks from the comic book and film to ...
Royal Society Journal Archive Lifts 60,000 Historical Scientific Articles into the Cloud
The scientific legacy of the world-famous historical journal archive will be available to the public—fully searchable and online—announced The Royal Society, the world’s oldest scientific publisher. The archive’s online-access portion will even include the first-ever peer-reviewed scientific journal: the first edition of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society first appearing in 1665. The digitization of ...
Zynga Girds for Sudden Death with IPO Coming One Week Before Thanksgiving
Everyone’s favorite social media gaming giant, Zynga Inc., will be positioning themselves to become a publicly traded company a week before the Thanksgiving holiday on November 24th, 2011. Breaking news according to a Reuters article, citing two sources who claim caution that the plans might change with new developments. As recently as late September, Zynga’s IPO has ...
Hackers Absconded with Mitsubishi Heavy Warplane, Nuke Plant Data
A leading daily newspaper in Japan is running an article right now that it’s been discovered that hackers stole plans for nuclear power plant design and safety plans, as well as fighter jet plans, from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. Computers. Sources told The Ashai Shimbun that during the period of time that the Japanese defense ...
Bitcoin is Not Dead (Again) Part II
For those who have been reading my coverage of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, you might have noticed that there isn’t actually a “Bitcoin is Not Dead Part I.” This is because in spite of people repeatedly calling out the currency as having failed in the past, nobody has ever successfully argued why it had died (and ...
Anonymous #OpDarknet Burns Down Pedophile Websites and Publishes Usernames
The weekend brings us news of Anonymous grabbing their masks, torches, and pitchforks and raiding a series of privacy-hardened darknet websites. An Anonymous hactivist cell is claiming responsibility for taking down more than 40 child-pornography websites and releasing the login information for more than 1,500 members of those websites. We’ve already seen what the Anonymous ...
Sony Online’s Free Realms Boasts 20 Million Registered Users
The best health metric used for massively multiplayer online (MMO) games these days happens to be how many people play them in a given period—often a month—but another overlooked standard is the total number of registered users. Sony Online’s Free Realms MMO has hit a milestone of over 20 million registered users since its launch ...
Virtual BlizzCon 2011 for $40: The Price of Eyeballs-Only Admittance
Conventioneering is a big deal for fans of popular culture media, although while comics really take the cake with ComicCon and Anime Expo, video games aren’t far behind with E3, PAX, and BlizzCon. The current hullaballoo centers around the upcoming BlizzCon 2011 which will be throwing open the doors of the Anaheim Convention Center in ...
NSA Helps Expedite Hardened Android Kernel for “Classified” Smartphones
There’s been a lot of movement around Google’s Android mobile phone platform recently, especially involving security and its usefulness in classified sectors such as government, healthcare, and defense. For a while now, RIM’s BlackBerry has shored up much of these operations by providing a stable environment with security measures to prevent outsiders from easily tapping ...
“Take This Lollipop” Puts the Fear of Social Media Sharing Into You
As All Hallow’s Eve quickly approaches at the end of this October month many television networks are already gearing up with fright weeks and horror movie marathons. As for social media, a new Facebook app at takethislollipop.com that asks you to “Take this lollipop. I dare you.” The site then asks for a lot of ...