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Kaspersky Labs Uncovers Highly Sophisticated Botnet that Forms “Indestructible” Network
It appeared in 2008, pulling itself out of the mire of malware ecology to quickly become dominant in its niche. Originally named TDL by its creator—identified as TDSS by Kaspersky Labs—the malware eventually became to grow into a botnet known as TDL-4 (the most recent variation.) It has a pool of infected computers 4.5 million ...
Google+ Early Adopters Discover First Privacy Flaw
Google+ is out and the Internet populace has hit it like a bag of hammers (so hard in fact that Google had to shut down invites for a while due to overwhelming demand.) In the wake of this sudden surge of attention, possibly generated by all the hype, a potential privacy flaw as surfaced: it’s ...
FBI Closing in on LulzSec with Search Warrant in Ohio
A federally sealed search warrant was executed by the FBI in Hamilton Township but no arrests have been made. While much of the news appears to be reporting that it was an area “teen” the actual age of the target is unknown. Speculation aims at a hacker with the handle m_nerva (who lives in Ohio), ...
GeoHot (George Hotz) Famous iPhone and Sony Hacker Now Working at Facebook
George Hotz, also known as GeoHot, has been confirmed by Facebook as being in their employ. Hotz is best known for his engineering prowess with the iPhone and as the person who broke the cryptographic protection on Sony’s PlayStation 3 gaming console. He then published the root key on the Internet under his handle GeoHot, ...
Supreme Court of the United States Kills California Anti-Video Game Law
There are few better litmus tests to how technology is affecting culture as to when the technology of entertainment mixes with the masses. As technology advances, so do the current bugaboos. In recent years, video games have joined the ranks of what penny novels, comic books, and even music lyrics have faced in their apparently ...
CloudFlare Speaks Up on Censorship and LulzSec
During their criminal hacking rampage, the hacker celebrity group LulzSec ran a webpage to house links to torrents, Pastebin posts, and the distribution of their ill-gotten booty. To protect this webpage from other hackers and attempts to take it down, they signed it up for the cloud-based web performance and security network service CloudFlare. For ...
LulzSec “Hack the Planet” Week TGIF’s with Leak of AZDPS Documents
Late last night, Thursday, the Internet highwaymen group of LulzSec finished collating through numerous leaks and other information they gathered from directing other hacker groups to attack government websites and released a megaton smartbomb of leaked information from Arizona’s Department of Public Safety. No doubt this move has once again upped the ante in the ...
SEGA and BBC Earth Unite to Create Interactive Multi-sensory Nature “Experience"
SEGA will be using footage and knowledge drawn from the immense archives of BBC Worldwide to create a giant themed interactive experience for visitors that allows them to experience natural history in a way not done before. The companies have revealed that the experience is set to open in Japan and the US in the ...
PARC Innovates the Next Internet Era with Content-Centric Networking
There’s a common science fiction concept about eventually separating data from static infrastructure. A huge part of how data flows through the Internet is guided by not just the cables that it flows through, but vast datacenters built up for specific purposes by corporations across the world. For the most part, these centers are not ...
Bitcoin Staggering Into Near Market Illiquidity in Wake of MtGox
Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that made a huge splash in the media recently, is finding its market crushed under its own weight after a widely publicized hack at an extremely large exchange site MtGox. A malicious hacker compromised the account of a bitcoin billionaire with the intent of crashing the currency through a massive sale (and ...