Anonymous Intercepts FBI-Scotland Yard Conference Call

FBI-Scotland Yard Phone Call Intercepted by Anonymous The FBI is used to using secret wiretaps, but what happens when someone intercepts calls made by the FBI? Well, it happened. Anonymous intercepted a conference...

Supply Chain Protection - New US Strategy

That sure includes oil and scarce materials. Threats to supply chains are not created by the US, though threats can be aggravated as well as they can be mitigated. Foreign policy in concert with military policy...

Grindr Hacked: 100,000 Users Exposed

Grinder: Popular Gay Hookup App Hacked iPhone/Android/Blackberry gay cruising app Grindr was hacked, and 100,000 Australian users' details were compromised. The hacker was able to exploit a security loophole and...

Zappos Hacked: Are Your Details Safe?

Zappos Hacked: Customer Data Stolen Beloved online shoe retailer Zappos was hacked on January 15, 2012. The hacker or hackers gained access to the Zappos customer database, so the accounts of 24 million customers has...

Mario Kart Facebook Scam: It's a Trap!

There Is No Mario Kart Facebook Game: It's a Scam If you get an invite from one of your friends to play Mario Kart on Facebook, do not click it. The text of the invitation reads: "Play Mario Kart on Facebook with...

US Drones Infected with Virus: Malware Nightmare

US Keeps Flying Predator & Reaper Drones Despite Virus Infection US military drones (the ones that carry out air strikes and, you know, kill people) have been infected with a computer virus. The virus is...

Hollywood Leaks Hacks Julianne Hough's Phone, Posts Pics

Hollywood Leaks: Targeting Julianne Hough, Tom Cruise, Kreayshawn 'for the Lulz' Remember when Kreayshawn blamed her hacked Twitter account on "anti-Hollywood extremists"? She was pretty much right. A group called...

Daniel Domscheit-Berg Admits to WikiLeaks Sabotage

Former Assange Ally Daniel Domscheit-Berg Deleted 3500 Unpublished Leaks Daniel Domscheit-Berg, former WikiLeaks deputy and ex-pal of Julian Assange, admitted to sabotaging the whistleblower site. Domscheit-Berg...

US House Committee Approves Internet Snooping Bill

US House of Representatives Wants to Track All of Your Web Usage Of course, author Lamar Smith (R-TX) didn't call it the "Internet Snooping Bill". He called it the "Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act...

'Topiary': Alleged LulzSec Hacker Arrested in Scotland

Police Arrest 19-year-Old Hacker: 'Topiary' from LulzSec Police have arrested a 19-year-old man in Scotland's Shetland Islands. They claim that he is Topiary, the spokesman for LulzSec. Topiary (police have not...

Google to Alert Users of Malware Infections

Google Notices Strange Search Patterns, Uncovers Botnet Google discovered a series of strange search patterns, and believes that they are the result of a widespread malware infection. Affected computers have become...

LulzSec Hacks The Sun, Posts Fake Rupert Murdoch Death Report

Hacking the Phone Hackers: LulzSec Targets News International LulzSec is not dead. The hacker group has targeted The Sun, redirecting the UK tabloid's visitors to a fake Rupert Murdoch death report, crashing the...

Bastille Day 2011: Malware Alert

Bastille Day Spam: C'est Très Mal This Bastille Day, heed the warning of Sophos and avoid a malicious email going around with the subject line "Bastille Day" or "Bastille Day Activities". The email contains an .rar...

Civil Liberties, Privacy, + Security

"If privacy is an essential component of personhood, how is personhood compromised by the information age, surveillance technologies, and other potential invasions of privacy? Similarly, what constitutes sufficient justification for the invasion of privacy by government,...

What happened in the case of the Pentagon Shooter?

This story post about a suspicious car near the Pentagon on Washington Boulevard amounts to nothing. Yet, what about the shots fired at the Pentagon and Marine Corps recruiting sites last year? Apparently people...

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