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If there’s anything that we’ve learned from 2011, it’s that hackers like pornography… Or at least they like to hack into pornography websites, steal the usernames and passwords, personal information, and credit card numbers. This is possibly because as an industry, these …
Cloud-Streaming for Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online Announced
With services such as OnLive producing the capability for users to play solo video games across the cloud—it seemed like it might only be a matter of time for massively-multiplayer online games to take a dip in the cloudy waters. The reason …
AntiSec Christmas Stratfor Hack Cost $700,000 in Credit Card Fraud
Remember last year when Anonymous and AntiSec breached the FBI think tank Stratfor and made news by making off with 200 gigabytes of personal and finical data and 60,000 credit card numbers? It was about Christmas time and Anonymous decided to make …
Anonymous Unleashes Symantec Antivirus 2006 Source Code
Today, The Pirate Bay came to index a torrent containing the leaked source code of Symantec Norton Antivirus 2006 after a long, strange journey including hackers, intrigue, and (failed) police stings. The entire thing started in January when a hacker with the …
Anonymous Takes Down Vatican Website Alleging “Corruption”
Not willing to sit on their heels, Anonymous recently decided to bag the Vatican. They did so through claims of retaliation against “corruption in the Roman Catholic Church,” and Wednesday morning, they took down the Vatican’s website Among the darkened websites include …
30,000 WordPress Installs Compromised In Newest Round of Malware
This week Websense Security Labs reported a massive infection of numerous WordPress installations by a new wave of malware distributing fake antivirus software. In their report, they cite that as of Monday, over 200,000 infected web pages had been discovered and close …
LinkedIn Acquisition of Rapportive Brings Social-Professional Magic to Gmail
The interesting Gmail social-context plugin, Rapportive, has been acquired by social-media for professionals company LinkedIn. Rapportive creates plugin software that provides context-sensitive social-media information on top of Gmail’s user interface. As a result, it works as a sort of highly immersive address …
Anonymous/AntiSec Defaces Panda Security Website in Revenge
Website defacement has become the mainstay of what essentially boils down to cybervandalism—and, just like its inner-city variant, it’s used as a medium to spread both playful and political messages. Yesterday, a multitude of subdomains belonging to security firm Panda Security were …
Dwolla Caught in Legal Feud with Bitcoin Exchange TradeHill for $2 Million
In what has all the hallmarks of a legal fiasco, Bitcoin exchange TradeHill has filed suit against payment network startup Dwolla and alleged racketeering, intentional misrepresentation, false advertising, and breach of contract, among other violations. TradeHill is claiming that Dwolla has cost …
2011 Provides a Record Year for PC Video Game Sales, Cloud and F2P Dominate
As an industry and entertainment avenue video games intersect across numerous layers of human life, so when the PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA) came out with their “Horizons” research report, it really wasn’t a surprise that 2011 was a record year for the …