Fearsquare Wonders: Will Crimes Stats Change the Way You Check In?
A lot of New York's heavy Foursquare users pride themselves on their adventurous and wide ranging check ins. But across the pond, the Lincoln Social Computing Research Center has mashed up public data...
View ArticleFinding a Laptop in the Trash is Not the Same as Hacking
From the department of hackneyed plot twists comes today's New York Times story about Goldman fall guy Fabrice Tourre. Turns out the Grey Lady had long term access to Fab's emails. Was it through some...
View ArticleAs It Hits 1,000 Tweets, @LulzSec Explains Its Reign of Terror
LulzSec Twitter Avatar Few hackers groups in the history of the internet age have claimed responsibility for attacks on so many prominent targets in such a short period of time. "For the past month and...
View ArticleHacked to Death: A Brief History of Tech’s Most Two-Sided Term
Hackers at MIT's Model Railroad Club The word hacker has been everywhere recently, splashed across the front page for weeks as the “Phone Hacking” scandal at News of the World engulfed Rupert Murdoch...
View ArticleResearchers Say the Cloud Could Aid in Large-Scale Cyber Attacks
Not all clouds are security threats. (flickr.com/kky) Researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of Oregon have discovered a way to turn cloud computing into hacker heaven....
View ArticleMIT.edu Hacked in Honor of Aaron Swartz, Allegedly by LulzSec
(Screencap: MIT.edu) Hackers have defaced the MIT.edu website in response to the death of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who was being prosecuted with the cooperation of M.I.T for illegally...
View ArticleRumor Roundup: Ricky Van Veen Makes His HBO Debut and Ann Curry Fights for...
Family ties Looks like Kim Dotcom has a pretty good sense of humor about his appearance. The Megaupload founder recently posted a photo on his Instagram of himself posing next to a hippo with the...
View ArticleInfamous Hacker Weev Sentenced to 41 Months in Jail for AT&T ‘Hack’
(Photo: Crimint.com) Andrew Auernheimer, better known by his pseudonym "weev," was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for exploiting an AT&T security flaw that allowed him to collect and...
View ArticleAnonymous Hacks North Korea’s Twitter and Flickr Accounts
(Photo: Flickr) One day after hacktivist collective Anonymous claimed to have stolen 15,000 membership records from the "semi-official" North Korea government outlet uriminzokkiri.com, the country's...
View ArticleSeveral iPhones Have Been Hacked, Locked and Held for Ransom
Just like that, Kind of (Photo: Let's Unlock iPhone) It's an Apple emergency. Several Aussies woke up this morning to find their Apple devices, including iPhones, iPads, and laptops, locked by a hacker...
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