Please boycott Wikipedia and Nature

plus: scientific proof the internet is controlled by big brother “Dear Mr Micheal, The Editor thanks you for your communication but regrets that he is unable to publish it. He regrets also that he cannot enter into further correspondence on this matter. Manuscript...

Internet traffic and media manipulation

I have websites on various servers: MSU, Examiner, NowPublic, and YouTube. I don't measure/record traffic on my MSU sites out of respect for their add-free hosting. You cannot post vulgarity, pornography, or copy-infringing content, as you cannot most places, but I have no...

Israeli Blogger claims to uncover "Saudi" Hacker

Amir Fedida says in his blog that the hacker is in fact Mexican resident of UAE origin; in latest move hacker spreads Trojan horse malware; file contains no new information, can damage computers than run it. ...

‘Anonymous’ Hacker Group Threatens to ‘Kill’ Facebook

In a video posted on Youtube, the Hacker group ‘Anonymous’ threatened to kill Facebook on Novermber 5, 2011. Their qualm with ‘Facebook’ is with relation to privacy. In the video, posted under the...

10 Year Old Girl Discovers Hack in Android Game

A 10-year-old girl going by the name of CyFi discovered if she manually changed the clock and disabled the wifi connection, she could speed up the games progress.  She demonstrated her hack at the Las Vegas Defcon convention and later confirmed by independent...

PBS Hack: Newshour Hacked With Fake Tupac Is Alive Story

PBS Hacked Over Wikileaks Story?  Newshour  Website Posts  Fake Tupac Is Alive In New Zealand StoryThe PBS Newshour website has been hacked. The hack occurred Sunday night according to various media...

New Hacking Tools Pose Bigger Threats to Wi-Fi Users

"You may think the only people capable of snooping on your Internet activity are government intelligence agents or possibly a talented teenage hacker holed up in his parents’ basement. But some simple software lets just about anyone sitting next to you at your local coffee...

Wickileaks Hacker, The Jester (th3j35t3r) Police Raid?

Wickileaks Hacker The Jester  (th3j35t3r) Says His Computer Seized By Police Update: Please read the comment thread, something is clearly afoot - Jester Hoax? Stay tuned.The Jester, the hacker who is believed to have brought down the Wikileaks website hours before it was...

Gary McKinnon's mother brands extradition of her son 'disgusting'

" The mother of computer hacker Gary McKinnon has criticised the home secretary's decision to extradite her son to the US as "disgusting". McKinnon, who has Asperger's syndrome, is said to be at serious risk of...

The Curious Gary Mckinnon Saga

Im sure most people in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, have heard about the Gary McKinnon case. In short, Gary is accused of penetrating over 90 unclassified Pentagon systems in 2001 and 2002 -- and allegedly crashing some of them. He states that he was looking for...

SQL Injection: Albert Gonzalez Steals 130M Credit Card Numbers

Albert Gonzales, 28, is charged with the largest case of credit and debit card theft in US history. Gonzales, from Miami, Florida, is already in jail for hacking into the databases of retail stores and stealing...

British hacker Gary McKinnon faces extradition to the USA

"British hacker Gary McKinnon has lost his latest High Court bid to avoid extradition to the United States." Although Gary McKinnon admits that he was able to gain access to sensitive networks in the USA, he was not malicious. He suffers from a mental disability, and hence...

Stallman, the Swedish Pirate Party, and copyleft

A few days ago, Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation published an op-ed to the GNU project's website, in which he criticized the copyright views of the Swedish Pirate Party, which had recently succeeded...

RAAF computers hacked over Indian student attacks

An Indian Student or Hacker what to say hacked RAAF Websites. The Air Force has confirmed its external website was hacked this week. The Message left over there is to stop attacks on Indian students in...

Iranian hackers attack U.S. university

Today an Iranian hacker breached into website of the University of Oregon and posted message against President Obama. The message was in the website for around one and hald hour before the university people noticed and fixed the site. " Today, Iranian hackers brought the...

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