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Tradehill Brightens the Bitcoin Market with E-Wallet Beta
Everyone involved in the Bitcoin market wants it to become something more than it currently is—something of an obscure cryptocurrency that’s popular mostly among geeks, although it’s recently gotten some notice in more mainstream arenas such as National Public Radio. As a result, exchanges and Internet trading houses have become the central metric for following ...
Monday’s MP3tunes Court Decision Breathes Life into the Musical Cloud
An interesting legal decision Monday takes some weight off the hard drives of the still-infantile music cloud industry. A federal judge has ruled that the MP3tunes cloud music service doesn’t violate copyright infringement statues when they serve only one MP3 file to multiple customers who happen to own the exact same track—rather than having to ...
Defense Contractor Vanguard Breached by AntiSec, Hacker Group Leaks 1GB Sensitive Data
Working under the hacktivist banner of AntiSec, yet another defense contractor has been struck by hackers who released over a gigabyte of sensitive information. The contractor hit, Vangaurd Defense Industries, just happens to have a connection to InfraGard, an FBI affiliated program struck by LulzSec, through its senior vice president, Richard T. Garcia. The group ...
ExchB Announces Bitcoins for Cash Deposit at Wells Fargo and Chase Banks
Exchange Bitcoins Inc., or ExchB, has made its current claim to fame by being the first United States-based Bitcoin exchange. Headquartered in Redwood City, California was founded in May 2011 by David Sterry and offers a wide variety of services designed to inspire confidence in its stability and capabilities. In fact, their press materials suggest ...
New Xbox 360 Dashboard Demo Leaked, Reveals Skype Integration
It’s been long rumored, but now it’s close to being confirmed: Skype integration will be coming to Xbox 360. Tom Warren at Winrumors discovered a video on YouTUBE (although quickly pulled by Microsoft) that demonstrates a new Xbox 360 Dashboard and a panoply of interesting new features. Unfortunately, the video now displays the message, “This ...
Anonymous Lashes Out Against BART Over Anti-Protestor Cell Phone Blackout
A particularly reactive sub-faction of Anonymous has brought down the hammer on BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) a Sate of California government agency that runs trains and platforms for commuters and tourists in the area. In what the faction is calling #OpBART they have defaced the BART web page and released names, passwords, and other ...
Hackers Deface AOL Web Page, Reveal Sensitive Password Information
Midafternoon Saturday, AOL’s postmaster.aol.com website was compromised and defaced by a hacker identifying themselves as HodLuM. The hacker modified the front page to display an AOL logo and the message: “AOL S3RV3RZ ROOT3D BY HODLUM LOLZ!” The fun didn’t stop there for curious folks looking at the source code to the page, however; beneath the ...
London Looter Robs the Wrong Computer Geek, Gets Caught by Ill-Gotten Macbook
When the London riots broke out, Greg Martin—a self-styled information security evangelist and computer security contractor—didn’t expect that he’d become the victim of a theft. According to his blog, he had returned to his London abode to discover his living space broken into, ransacked, and his Macbook Pro missing. To many, the personal violation of ...
MtGox Acquires Bitomat.pl as Bid to Restore Confidence in Bitcoin Market
In a move to restore confidence in the Bitcoin exchange market, MtGox (owned and operated by Tibanne Co. Ltd.) will be integrating the recently beleaguered Bitomat.pl user database. According to a recent press release, MtGox will migrate the users of the 3rd largest Bitcoin exchange into their own and add the Polish Zloty as an ...
Hackers Threaten BlackBerry Maker over Co-Operation with London Riots Investigation
Hackers have defaced the BlackBerry blog in a move to intimidate Research In Motion over a statement that the company would lawfully assist the police during the investigation of the London and Tottenham riots. The London riots spread at such an extraordinary rate and with apparent orchestration that shows evidence that social networking and messaging systems ...