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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 ...
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 ...