There has been quite an amount of cyber attacks these past few months –starting from the dissident Wikileaks for exposing highly sensitive government documents since last year, to the recently disbanded LulzSec and now its legacy, Anonymous running wild under the #AntiSec banner. These figures have debased federal agencies and contractors such as Booz Allen ...

Hacktivist group Anonymous tweeted Monday morning that they will be releasing “shiny things” uncovered from attacking an intelligence community. They unloaded the first batch via Pirate Bay which the hacktivist group is calling #MilitaryMeltdownMonday. The injured party this time is Booz Allen Hamilton, a consulting firm that works with the US Department of Defense and ...

According to a CommTouch quarterly Internet Threats Trend Report, spammers prefer sending their unsolicited mails through compromised accounts than botnets. The strategy shift is most likely driven by high-profile botnets being taken down one by one, consequently dropping spam levels over the last few months.

The latest casualty in the string of cyber breaches is IRC Federal, an engineering contractor that works for federal agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The offenses involve theft of sensitive internal documents contained in database and e-mails, as well as generally spoiling the website. The misdemeanor was initiated by AntiSec, a part of ...

Temporarily or permanently, Google’s Realtime search isn’t functional at the moment. Shortly after the roll out of Google+, there has been a good amount of changes that happened and the realtime search got hit by the modification downpour and it has caused quite an uproar. It is developed around real-time data from Twitter, as well ...

Over a hundred years ago, Sweden was among the poorest countries in Europe. Today, it’s one of the leaders in advancing Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Lif e Science, Clean Technology and Gaming. It’s simply one of the most innovative countries in the world. 3-point seatbelt, the pacemaker and mobile telephony –they are among the ...

Walt Disney CEO Robert Iger said that owners of Hulu are “committed to selling it (the company)”. The company’s board has been in talks about a possible buy out over the past few weeks, and finally, at the Allen & Co. media conference in Idaho, Iger said that the selling transaction will happen soon. He ...

After conjectures and tittle-tattles over the past months, Spotify finally confirmed on their website a stateside launch. To get the freshest new and be invited as soon as the operation commences, you can leave your email address on the site.

After a good amount of internal fuss over the past weeks, BlackBerry-maker RIM is yet again on an uphill battle for losing 1 million users in the US from February to May. Then second place, the unimpressive sales tugged RIM down to third as Apple advances from third to second. Google’s Android remains to be ...

We know all too well that overseeing an infrastructure isn’t exactly the most laid-back job. It’s a massive web of servers, switches, and physical and virtual appliances. In order to easily manage these arrays of complication, Real Status, one of the Structure 2011 LaunchPad companies and an Intergence Interactive (a consulting services firm) spinout created ...