, the co-founder of popular website Reddit and the co-creator, in his teens, of the RSS syndication tool, has been found dead in his home in New York in an apparent suicide. The precocious programmer and internet activist had been due in ...
Tags: Aaron Swartz, Reddit, RSS syndication tool, suicide
Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier accused of leaking thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents to whistleblower site WikiLeaks, is expected to argue this week that the charges against him should be dropped because he has ...
IDG News Service - Swedish police confiscated three servers allegedly connected to copyright infringements during a raid on PRQ, a hosting service that was once home to The Pirate Bay. The main target was the Swedish torrent site ...
Tags: servers, hosting service, core routing system, controversial websites
A 22-year-old U.K. man was convicted for his involvement in a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks launched by the hacktivist group Anonymous against PayPal, MasterCard, Visa and other companies in 2010. Christopher ...
Tags: attacks, Anonymous, PayPal, MasterCard, Visa
One billion hacking attempts will be made globally in the final quarter of 2012, according to new predictions by information assurance firm NCC Group. The firm’s latest Origin of Hacks report identifies 981 million hacks attempted ...
Tags: Hacking, NCC Group, Computer Products
Hacktivist group Anonymous claims it brought down government websites in protest at the UK’s handling of the asylum case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The group targeted the websites of No. 10, the Home Office, the Ministry ...
Tags: Anonymous, Computer Products, Government Websites, Julian Assange
This is the third in a series of interviews with C-level executives responsible for cyber security and privacy in business and government, who also happen to be thought leaders. (Remember, as I mentioned previously, "C-level executive" and ...
Tags: interviews, cyber security, privacy, business, government, web security
Network security is still as necessary as it was 15 years ago when the Black Hat Conference was first beginning. Sure the players have changed and the sophistication, but it is a classic good vs. evil scenario still. A panel of experts at ...
Tags: Network, security, Black Hat Conference
Whistle-blowing site Wikileaks on Thursday released the Syria Files, a database of more than 2.4 million emails to and from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies, dating from August 2006 to March 2012. The ...
Former Pirate Bay host PRQ.se went down in the middle of a police raid on Monday, affecting hundreds of hosted sites and thousands of users of PRQ's other services. But the raid and the outage are unlikely to be related, according to PRQ's ...
Tags: Former Pirate Bay, PRQ, DDoS attack, network
The U.S. is trying to erect a national regime of secrecy and obfuscation where any government employee revealing sensitive information to a media organization can be sentenced to death, life imprisonment, or for espionage, and the ...
Tags: U.S., secrecy, obfuscation, media organization
Four UK youths acting in the name of activist hacking collective Anonymous cost PayPal £3.5m as a result of cyber attacks carried out 2010 and 2011, a court has heard. The distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks were carried ...
Tags: distributed-denial-of-service, cyber attacks, DDoS attacks
Mozilla Foundation and other activist groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation have called for the release of Bassel Khartabil, an open-source developer who was detained on March 15 in the Mazzeh district of Damascus in a wave of ...
Tags: Mozilla, Syria, open source developer
IDG News Service - A new website, set up by Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and some other civil rights activists, aims to crowdsource donations for WikiLeaks and three other organizations. The launch of the Freedom of the ...
Tags: WikiLeaks, website, crowdsource donations, stopped processing payments
Using Visa or MasterCard for donations to WikiLeaks was made possible again Wednesday when the French organization Defense Fund Net Neutrality (FDNN) started accepting payments via those credit card providers through the French Carte Bleue ...
Tags: Visa, MasterCard, WikiLeaks, FDNN