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Authorities Continue to Stalk Anonymous with 32 Raids in Italy Leading to Arrests
What started with police action in Spain last month is continuing with raids and arrests in Italy this week. The arrests in Spain were part of an operation targeting individuals suspected as connected to the attacks that took down the Playstation Network for almost a month. While it’s unclear if these raids in Italy are ...
Google+ Found Cavorting with NFC in Official Android App
It looks like Google is pressing forward in their adoption of NFC technology by making sure that it’s also Google+ enabled. Shortly after the announcement and unveiling of their new social networking service, an official Android app became available on the App Marketplace and people started using it. That’s when a software developer, Ridzuan Ashim, ...
California Judge Gives Go-Ahead for Google Class-Action Involving WiFi Snooping
United States wiretapping laws are notoriously used in contexts way beyond any possible intent due to the zealotry of law enforcement and the inexorable march of technology. When much of the wiretapping legislation had been put into law, the concept of a “wire” for communication actually had meaning, whereas now not only do we communicate ...
Facebook Blocks Chrome Extension for Exporting Friends to Google+
In what is going to certainly be the next level in the fight between Facebook and Google over data portability and reciprocity, a Facebook has blocked the functioning of a Chrome browser extension that became abruptly popular after the launch of Google+. The extension, Facebook Friend Exporter, written by an open source software engineer, Mohamed ...
Sabu of LulzSec Speaks with NewScientist Reporter
It looks like one of the hackers tied to the hacker group LulzSec has spoken with a journalist at NewScientist. In his short exchange he paints a picture of being involved in these hactivist movements due not just to motivations spurred from seeking the ‘lulz’ (or in Internet slang, doing something for laughs) but because ...
Dropbox’s Updated Terms of Service: What You Should Know
In attempt to reconnect with users who have felt burned by numerous security concerns jumping out of their service from both technical and social angles, Dropbox have decided to address this head on by updating their Terms of Service (ToS), Privacy Policy, and Security Overview. In a blog post the cloud-storage company explained that they ...
In Wake of Hack Leading to Bitcoin Crash, Mt. Gox Begins to Grow Up
In a press statement yesterday, MtGox.com acknowledged the security issues and the hack that lead to the crash of the bitcoin economy earlier in June. After freezing all of their assets in the wake of the crash, Mt. Gox has undergone a lot of changes and expects further evolution of their service in the near ...
Zynga IPO Filing Lists for $1 Billion
It looks like the expected Zynga IPO has appeared on the books in the form of an S-1 filing with the SEC. The filing is still subject to change (and incomplete as it contains a number of blanks) but it looks like Zynga intends to raise almost $1 billion from the IPO. From the filing, ...
Kaspersky Labs Uncovers Highly Sophisticated Botnet that Forms “Indestructible” Network
It appeared in 2008, pulling itself out of the mire of malware ecology to quickly become dominant in its niche. Originally named TDL by its creator—identified as TDSS by Kaspersky Labs—the malware eventually became to grow into a botnet known as TDL-4 (the most recent variation.) It has a pool of infected computers 4.5 million ...
Google+ Early Adopters Discover First Privacy Flaw
Google+ is out and the Internet populace has hit it like a bag of hammers (so hard in fact that Google had to shut down invites for a while due to overwhelming demand.) In the wake of this sudden surge of attention, possibly generated by all the hype, a potential privacy flaw as surfaced: it’s ...
