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AntiLeaks Takes Down WikiLeaks
Following five days of sustained distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, the WikiLeaks website has been taken offline. The whistle blowing website had reportedly been under attack since August 3, apparently from a previously unheard of group known as AntiLeaks, whose mysterious leader “DietPepsi” released a statement claiming responsibility yesterday: “You can call me DietPepsi. I ...
What is it about Paris that Makes it Look Like, Well, Paris?
Some people might say that the city possesses a certain je ne sais quoi, others might point to the iconic Eiffel Tower, but for a new machine-learning program created by Carnegie Mellon, it’s the window balustrades, third-floor cast-iron balcony railings, molding on wooden doors, and even the shape of the streetlamps that make the French ...
Burn After Using: The New Fake Number App That Lets You Cover Your Tracks
Ever been approached by an ugly, or even worse, creepy looking stranger who insists on you giving them your cell phone number? Well, if this has happened more than once in your life, you might just be interested in the new Burner app from Ad Hoc Labs. Burner lets you purchase a new, temporary cell ...
Social Mobile Slows, Dominated by Facebook
New figures show that almost 82 million people in the US, or 26 percent of the nation’s population, are now accessing social networks from their mobile phones. But if you happen to be thinking this could be a golden opportunity for your own social networking startup, think again – Facebook has the market all but ...
Boingo Set to Expand Free Wi-Fi Access with Acquisition of Cloud Nine Media
While there seems to be Wi-Fi hot spots everywhere these days, trying to find some place where you can get connected for free is an altogether different story. However, if the latest acquisition by Boingo Wireless tells us anything, it’s that that paying for Wi-Fi may one day become a thing of the past. Sounds ...
Big Money Data: Is It Really Worth It?
In an increasingly digital world, pretty much everything we do online creates an electronic record–each time we buy something, every time we add a friend or like something on Facebook, even when we schedule a visit to the doctor’s clinic–this data is being collected by someone. Organizations today are amassing thousands of terabytes of information ...
Origins of Malware Revealed
Malware has a nasty habit of popping up just about everywhere we dare to tread on the World Wide Web. In fact, it’s pretty much a given that so long as you have a computer and an internet connection, there will be worms, Trojans and viruses attempting to worm their way inside your computer. But ...
Pro-Assad Hackers Make Reuters Look Stupid
Oh dear. It seems that Reuters have lots to learn about security if they’re going to be taken seriously in future… The news agency has been left reeling after being hacked not once, but twice in the space of 24 hours, apparently by pro-Bashar Assad propagandists who posted a number of fake stories in support ...
Four Billion Hours of YouTube Viewed Each Month
We all know that YouTube is pretty popular these days, but do you have any idea just how popular it is? That’s hard to quantify of course, but let’s just say that if the latest estimation of over four billion hours of YouTube videos being watched each and every month is at all accurate, it ...
New Digg Doesn’t Have a Clue
Anyone checked out Digg.com lately? If you have, you may have noticed that the social news bookmarking website has had its guts ripped out as part of a total revamp following its takeover by New York-based Betaworks. Digg’s new owners can be commended for a couple of things. Having decided to revert to start-up mode ...