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Bitcoin Expert Turned Away by U.S.Customs Over Lack of “Real” Money
What happens when you’re an expert and developer who uses a digital currency, fly into the U.S. to conference with other developers, and then U.S. customs cannot fully grasp the capabilities of your stock of virtual currency? You get sent straight back to China, of course. That’s what happened to Bitcoin developer, founder of the ...
Metropolitan Police Announce Capture of Hacker “Topiary” of LulzSec Fame
Well, it looks like the first step of LulzSec’s catch-me-if-you-can may be coming to a head with the announcement by the London Metropolitan Police who say that they’ve captured the hacker “Topiary.” The announcement mentions the arrest of a 19-year-old man in an intelligence led operation and his transport to a police station in central ...
Amy Winehouse Survey Scam Hits Facebook Amid Other Attacks Capitalizing on Her Death
Over the weekend we saw the death of a celebrity, Amy Winehouse, an English singer with no small stack of accolades; par for the course, cybercriminals leapt to the offensive the moment the news hit the fan. With a sudden surge in Google searches for her name and the news spreading like wildfire via social ...
Freakonomics asks: Is There More Actual Hacking or More Reporting of Hacking?
Now that we’ve all seen the recent explosion of articles in the media following different types of hacking, people are beginning to wonder what exactly is going on. Even before this year, hacking had been more of an armchair affair with distant actors, corporations and foreign powers stealing information from one another. Nowadays, we hear ...
Lulz Security, Anonymous Issue Joint Statement to FBI: “Expect Us”
Not content to shutter themselves and actually go away, in spite of ending their hacking spree of 50 days with a goodbye tweet, LulzSec has thrust themselves into a new era of hacking. Perhaps emboldened by world governments’ inability to stop them during their first round; they’re back for more and they continue to take ...
Google’s Malware Detection System Could be So Much More
Why is malware such a big problem currently? It can be summed up in a very simple set of terms about the human attention span: education and trust. Google represents an excellent vendor to deliver both of these. They have the network, they have the eyeballs, they’re well known, and they could even forge relationships ...
FBI Executes Search Warrants in New York Seeking Anonymous Suspects
Early Tuesday morning, the FBI executed search warrants on three homes in the New York area belonging to suspected members of Anonymous. Including the home of Giordani Jordan, which they hit at 6 a.m. EST with a search warrant for computers and computer related peripherals—an article on Foxnews.com mentions that agents removed at least one ...
Salesforce.com Chief Scientist JP Rangaswami On Filling Buisiness Gaps with Games
As an anthropologist, it’s easy for me to see how people generate rituals and rules in their everyday interactions to encourage or hinder particular behaviors—essentially, we’re aware of our own psychology and sometimes we end up finding ways to game it. Point-in-fact, that’s exactly what “gamification” happens to be: making things that aren’t otherwise games ...
Pentagon Officials Announce Breach of over 24,000 Files In Recent Cyberattack
In what will probably just be seen alongside this year’s string of high-visibility hacks against U.S. government targets, a top Pentagon official acknowledged Thursday that the Department of Defense has suffered one of the most damaging cyberattacks in its history. Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III disclosed that over 24,000 files had been lost ...
BitTrust API Seeks to Open a Generation of Apps for Bitcoin
Bitcoin (BTC) has continued to rise from an esoteric cryptocurrency known only to geeks and enthusiasts into a media sensation. Of the major hurdles to its eventual adoption as a digital currency have been the lack of involvement in technology—especially that of mobile. Recently, however, much of that has been changing with the advent of ...