Aaron Swartz, 26, hanged himself in his flat weeks before he was to go on trial on accusations that he stole millions of articles from an electronic archive to make them freely available. If convicted he faced decades in prison and a ...
Tags: electronic archive, Aaron Swartz, Electronic Frontier Foundation, hacker
Verizon's attempt -- unsuccessful so far -- to secure a patent for a so-called 'snooping technology,' which in this case would let television advertisers target individual viewers based on what they're doing or saying in front of their ...
Tags: Verizon, snooping technology, drones, phones, privacy threats
Computerworld - Individuals have no reasonable expectation of privacy in historical cell phone location data collected and maintained by phone companies, a federal prosecutor said in oral arguments Monday before a three-judge panel from the ...
Tags: Cell Phone, cell phone location, cell phone location data
Speech of the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General at the MOHR Conference, National Centre for Human Rights, Baghdad 19 December 2012. Minister for Human Rights, Engineer Shiya Al Sudaani, Excellencies, Ladies and ...
Tags: Iraq, economy, report, Minister for Human Rights
Kim Dotcom, founder of the filesharing site Megaupload, which was shut down by US authorities, has revealed its replacement, Mega, which he says will protect file uploaders' identities. The website will use encryption to prevent users ...
Tags: Kim Dotcom, US, Megaupload, anti-piracy
A US court has ordered Twitter to release old tweets and other details of a user arrested during an Occupy Wall Street protest in New York. The micro-blogging firm refused at first, saying the tweets were owned by users and not Twitter. ...
Tags: Twitter, US court, old tweets, Occupy Wall Street, micro-blogging firm
August 17, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- When one or both spouses reach the point at which they know that divorce is inevitable, they may not agree on the details or motives. Accusations of infidelity, suspicions about hidden assets or ...
Tags: Email Snooping, Michigan Divorce, Michigan media, computer hacking
TRIESTE, ITALY, August 09, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Amped Software is exhibiting and taking part in the educational presentations at DSI on August 13-16 at the Orleans Hotel in Las Vegas. Amped will be demonstrating and showcasing the new ...
IDG News Service - Get your conspiracy theories ready: Two founders of The Pirate Bay were due to speak at the Hack in the Box security conference in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, but didn't show up. The 3 p.m. speaking slot for Peter ...
Tags: Pirate Bay, Box security conference, Hack, cyber security
A 30-year-old Phoenix man was sentenced Thursday to 30 months in prison for using botnets and selling access to them, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Joshua Schichtel, allegedly connected to a group of hackers who used ...
Tags: Phoenix man, botnets, U.S.Department of Justice, Arizona
August 10, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Louisiana Federal District Court Judge Brian Jackson ruled a state statute that prohibited sex offenders from using Internet sites is unconstitutional. The court found the law overbroad, in that it ...
Tags: Internet, Internet sites, court websites, websites
The FBI has arrested another suspected member of the now-defunct hacking group LulzSec in connection with a breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment's computer systems. The 20-year-old Raynaldo Rivera surrendered to US authorities after a ...
Tags: LulzSec, Pictures Entertainment's computer systems, protected computer
The Home Office is to decide by 16 October whether to block the extradition to the US of self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon on the grounds of poor health. The timetable has been set after the High Court intervened in July to end a ...
Tags: Gary McKinnon, self-confessed hacker, UFO Hacker, medical evidence
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
A federal judge in California dismissed a privacy class-action lawsuit against LinkedIn that alleged the social media network violated provisions of the Stored Communications Act (SCA) when it disclosed the IDs and browsing histories of ...
Tags: federal judge, privacy lawsuit, LinkedIn, social media network