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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 ...
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 ...