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Scotland Yard Arrests Hacker in England, LulzSec Denies Connection
The world’s hacker drama continues apace with Lulz Security calling upon a multitude of disenfranchised hackers and scriptkiddies to strike out at badly secured government websites across the world. This call has generated something of a smokescreen for the hacker group who are no doubt being sought by numerous policing organizations for arrest. Then came ...
EFF Ditches Bitcoin as Alternative Donation Currency Due to Legal Insecurities
After being one of the most interesting adopters of Bitcoin, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has decided to stop taking donations in the cryptocurrency and flush current holdings. In their statement, the EFF stated that they will be pouring their accumulated (and all future accumulated bitcoins) into the Bitcoin faucet. In a statement on their ...
Anonymous Disrupts Over 51 Malaysian Government Websites
As there’s been a huge increase in media coverage of hacker activity and cyberwarfare across the world, we’re starting to see more major news outlets describe what happens when entire countries get targeted. Fifty-one Malaysian government controlled websites suffered hacks last week on Wednesday after the hactivist collective Anonymous put them in their crosshairs, reports ...
Microsoft Releases Kinect SDK for Windows 7, Let the Magic Happen
With the recent presentation at E3, Kinect is slowly making its debut into popular game franchises (like Mass Effect) beyond its original gimmick game appearances and Microsoft shows little chance of slowing down in getting it adopted by everyone. To this extent, they’ve released the SDK (Software Development Kit) that will allow programmers access to ...
LulzSec Dumps Cargo of 62k Logins, 12k of them Belong to WriterSpace.com Users
If you are concerned your information has been released in one of the recent LulzSec data dumps, Gizmodo.com has a leak checker available. Go check there. A boatload of ill-gotten e-mail addresses and passwords found itself dropped off at a public port by LulzSec when they released a 62,000 line file. Some of the e-mail ...
Hacker Group LulzSec Downs CIA.gov Website, IT Security Community Rolls Their Eyes
Yesterday, the malicious Internet prankster group LulzSec directed a heavy salvo of distributed denial of service attacks at cia.gov—the public facing front for the United States Central Intelligence Bureau. As DDoS attacks are somewhat unsophisticated brute-force attempts to shut down a website, nobody was that impressed by their technical ability in causing cia.gov to go ...
Big Data and the Semantic Web: A Synergy of Infrastructure and Language
Edd Dumbill at O’Reilly Radar asks an interesting question pertaining to the relationship between Big Data and the semantic web: “Big data and the semantic web: At war, indifferent, or intimately connected?” The answer is complex and interesting, and it involves a lot of the two being all three at the same time, as both ...
LulzSec Switches Gears with Titanic Takeover Tuesday and Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
Making use of website exploits to do hacking against websites took a back seat Tuesday for LulzSec—a group of malicious Internet hackers dubbed ‘pranksters’ by much of the media—for the use of a botnet for random DDoS attacks against various gaming industry websites. While the attacks seemed fairly random, especially noting the manifestos posted after ...
Xbox LIVE Integration with Windows 8, ‘Pervasive’ Across Devices Says Microsoft
With E3 just a few days back down the road, we’re getting buried in further Microsoft revelations, especially those pertaining to Xbox LIVE. What’s been unexpected is that there would be a connection to the eventual release of Microsoft’s next generation operating system, Windows 8—still on the horizon and probably more than a year out, ...
LulzSec Continues Headline Grabbing Hacks with U.S. Senate Website and Bethesda Softworks
In what is a flurry of activity certainly leading towards some sort of crash-and-burn, now infamous hacker group LulzSec had a very busy day yesterday. First, they made threats and hints all day about hacking the databases of video game publisher Bethesda Softworks—best known for their development of the highly open-world game Morrowind and its ...