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Bitcoin Value Falling as ExchB Exchange Shutters its Doors and Windows
Yesterday, Oct 16, 2011, ExchB officially stopped all transactions and closed up shop. The exchange bills itself as “the 1st US Bitcoin Exchange” and now they’ll take that title to the exchange grave with them as they lock their virtual doors for the last time and shoo their customers out. This happens during a time ...
Red Card! Xbox LIVE Users Targeted by Soccer Fan Hacker
Over the past month a large number of reports of hacked Xbox LIVE accounts have been flowing to a reporter at Ars Technica and the pattern emerging seems a bit specific: the hacker purchases FIFA Soccer 11 or 12 accompanied with a bunch of credits for the game. The FIFA Soccer series is part of ...
Microsoft and Skype: It’s Time to Bring Video Calls into the Living Room
Microsoft and Skype sealed the deal today—the most famous and best branded VoIP provider across the Internet will now become a division of the most powerful software house in the world. The future of personal communications may yet have an interesting road ahead of it with the well funded might of Microsoft behind it. “Microsoft ...
Dennis Ritchie RIP: Computer Science Pioneer and Father of the C Programming Language
Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of the programming language C and the co-inventor of the UNIX operating system has shuffled off this mortal coil. His contributions to contemporary computing are so far reaching that his work has branched into almost every conceivable human endeavor dealing with computational technology. He died on October 8 at the age ...
Did Mafia Wars Bring Down Air Force Unmanned Drone Operations?
The computer virus that has poxed the United States Air Force drone fleet appears to be a type routinely used to steal credentials from players who play Mafia Wars online. According to unofficial reports, drone command caught an Internet cold. The USAF suffered a slight twinge of embarrassment when the public discovered that the unmanned ...
RSA Blames “Nation State” and Tag-Team Hackers for Ides of March SecurID Breach
In March, RSA suffered a cyberattack that compromised their SecurID platform and led to a recall and increased paranoia among their defense contractor customers. Yesterday at a press conference an RSA spokesman mentioned that they believe it was the act of two separate hacking outfits both of whom could be connected to a nation state. ...
Blizzard to Experiment with Real-Money for Gold Scheme in WoW via Tradable In-Game Pet
Most of the virtual items for sale in Blizzard’s überpopular massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft bind directly to users’ accounts—meaning that once bought they cannot be traded to other players. Recently, Blizzard announced a new vanity pet that players can purchase that can be traded between accounts: the Guardian Cub ...
Governor of California Crushes Bill Banning Warrantless Cell Phone Searches
Gov. Jerry Brown of California has vetoed a bill that would have required police officers to obtain a warrant before searching arrestees’ smartphones. The bill would have worked to prevent the practice of law enforcement of opening up a person’s cell phone, downloading all the contents, perusing photos, videos, texts, e-mails, and other private effects ...
NYSE Unaffected by Anonymous Attack; Sabu of LulzSec ‘We still have Sun e-mails’
October 4, we ran an article about how the hacktivist collective Anonymous began rumbling that it would proceed with an attack against the New York Stock Exchange in an act of solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street (#OWS) movement. That attack took the form of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) yesterday at the appointed ...
The Evolving Place of Pastebin.com in Social Discourse, From LulzSec to Occupy Wall Street
The previous decade showed us how the Internet and social media change the face of protests. In fact, a leaderless collective of interested parties emerged from forums calling themselves Anonymous to form a surprisingly large mass protest against Scientology. We’ve seen social media provide the foundation for citizen journalists to document the going’s on of ...