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With all the hullabaloo surrounding Bitcoin and, in particular, Bitcoin exchanges it’s a ripe time for new players to enter into the market and wow people involved in the peer-to-peer virtual currency market. While this mathematically interesting currency concept has been around …
Blizzard Planning Diablo III Cash Auction House: Items Will be Bought, Sold for Real Money
Monday, Blizzard released new information about the highly anticipated release of Diablo III—the third installment of their extremely popular isometric, demon-slaying RPG series. Among the announcements advocating the upcoming beta and the fact that the game will be entirely online, they included …
Third Largest Bitcoin Exchange Bitomat Lost Their Wallet, Over 17,000 Bitcoins Missing
Today Bitomat, Poland-based third largest Bitcoin exchange, announced that as of July 26 they lost access to their wallet.dat file and thus the exchange’s entire fund base has become inaccessible. The Bitomat service is now up for sale for 17,000 Bitcoins to …
Sony Suffers Brunt of Revenue Decline Alongside Competitors Like Nintendo
It’s been a bad year for video game console developers out of Japan—I say so because Microsoft still seems to be steaming strong. Both Sony and Nintendo have seen a sharp decline in revenue over the past fiscal year; although connected by …
Did LulzSec Trick Scotland Yard into Arresting the Wrong “Topiary”?
Yesterday, the London Metropolitan Police reported that they had nabbed the infamous hacker Topiary, famed spokesperson for the hacker group Lulz Security. However, today, rumors and allegations are floating up to the surface that a brilliant disinformation campaign might have led police …
Bitcoin Expert Turned Away by U.S.Customs Over Lack of “Real” Money
What happens when you’re an expert and developer who uses a digital currency, fly into the U.S. to conference with other developers, and then U.S. customs cannot fully grasp the capabilities of your stock of virtual currency? You get sent straight back …
Metropolitan Police Announce Capture of Hacker “Topiary” of LulzSec Fame
Well, it looks like the first step of LulzSec’s catch-me-if-you-can may be coming to a head with the announcement by the London Metropolitan Police who say that they’ve captured the hacker “Topiary.” The announcement mentions the arrest of a 19-year-old man in …
Amy Winehouse Survey Scam Hits Facebook Amid Other Attacks Capitalizing on Her Death
Over the weekend we saw the death of a celebrity, Amy Winehouse, an English singer with no small stack of accolades; par for the course, cybercriminals leapt to the offensive the moment the news hit the fan. With a sudden surge in …
Freakonomics asks: Is There More Actual Hacking or More Reporting of Hacking?
Now that we’ve all seen the recent explosion of articles in the media following different types of hacking, people are beginning to wonder what exactly is going on. Even before this year, hacking had been more of an armchair affair with distant …
Lulz Security, Anonymous Issue Joint Statement to FBI: “Expect Us”
Not content to shutter themselves and actually go away, in spite of ending their hacking spree of 50 days with a goodbye tweet, LulzSec has thrust themselves into a new era of hacking. Perhaps emboldened by world governments’ inability to stop them …