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Twitter Hacked, 250,000 Accounts Compromised in Expert Intrusion
Thousands of Twitter users woke up this morning to discover e-mails from the social media service asking them to change their passwords. Why? Yesterday, Twitter announced that they’d experienced an internal breach that compromised more than 250,000 user accounts before they brought a stop to it. The incident, reported on the Twitter blog on Friday, ...
Just Look at These Amazing 3D Printed Pieces of Art from Colony
Jessica Rosenkrantz of Nervous System has been working with 3D printed objects for some time now and she develops generated works of art based on generative design. Her newest project, Colony, which is still somewhere been the drawing board and production is all about producing 3D printed designs based on natural phenomena to produce interesting works of ...
Amazon.com Appears to Be Down [Updated]
It’s not just you. Right now, Amazon.com is unavailable in the United States and for me. Reports are that the service (the web page at least) seems to be unavailable for numerous people and only sporadically available for others. The first report of the outage was noticed by Hacker News contributor Nathan Bashaw at around 11:40am PT. Checking the ever-so-useful ...
European Central Bank Concern for Bitcoin Gets Attention (Again)
Digital currencies have a strong potential to be a disruptive technology in a sector that’s seen very little change in many, many years. In October of last year, the European Central Bank published a report about digital currencies that mentioned Bitcoin 183 times while commenting on the impact of digital currencies on the current state ...
How Do I Keep My Data Safe Using a Cyberlocker Like Mega?
Kim Dotcom’s Mega recently launched as the spiritual successor to the now extinct Megaupload. It contains a lot of interesting security features, including what looks like some impressive encryption; however, in spite of its much-trumpeted security, it seems to be riddled with flaws and this may well give pause to anyone who wants to use ...
Camover Upgrades Alternate Reality Gaming to the Gamification of Protest-Vandalism
Activists in Berlin, Germany have come up with a way to keep their members engaged and hook in the public to become part of what is essentially a vandalism spree against government surveillance as a form of protest. The game, named Camover, involves members moving through public spaces in disguise and smashing CCTV cameras, recording ...
Anonymous Hacks USDOJ Sentencing Website in Honor of Aaron Swartz
Early Saturday morning, the US Department of Justice Sentencing Commission website, www.ussc.gov, was shut down and has remained offline for some time. Numerous Anonymous press shortly began to clamor that the hacktivist collective was responsible for the shutdown, and to add insult to injury, has also collected a bundle of leaked documents intended to embarrass ...
SavvisDirect Opens Up Frictionless Services for Small and Medium Businesses
The enterprise sector has seen strong attention towards using cloud services to deliver platforms and software but how will the small and medium business sector take advantage of what could give them a huge advantage. SavvisDirect seeks to deliver infrastructure-as-a-service, cloud storage, as well as SAAS-marketplace, e-mail, collaboration, and security for SMB. Later this month, ...
BitPay Announces 10,000 Bitcoin Transactions with Zero Cases of Payment Fraud
BitPay announces that the bitcoin transaction processor has exceeded 10,000 successful transactions with zero cases of payment fraud. For a regular financial institution this might be news, but as you’ll see, with Bitcoin fraud is somewhat difficult. Financial transactions on the Internet have always come with a risk—and a sensation that that risk is higher ...
The Modern Prometheus Returns: Mega Gives the Finger to Content Cartels and the US Government
If you read the news about him, Kim Dotcom sounds larger than life. He has a reputation of a sleazebag with too much money to his name who became the center of a year-long-firestorm involving his website Megaupload. It’s now been over a year since the US violently dismantled his cloud cyberlocker file sharing business ...
