You might not be suspected of trafficking cocaine and your car might not have a warrantless GPS placed in it by police. But the legal issues raised by the Supreme Court matter for everything you do online (and off).READ»
The Anonymous-led hack attack going on against web properties of the DOJ and others is apparently employing a cunning new tactic to improve its potency: It's getting regular web users to launch denial-of-service attacks.READ»
This evening, hours after Megaupload was busted by federal authorities, Anonymous began a massive retaliatory attack that forced the websites of the Justice Department, the U.S. Copyright Office, the MPAA, and the RIAA offline.READ»
So far, the hacker collective known as Anonymous--or those claiming the name--has failed to live up to threats made via YouTube and social media. But they have brought a lot of buzz to the Occupy Wall Street movement. READ»
Yahoo blocked emails related to the ongoing protests on Wall Street. Meanwhile, attendees have been dealing with another problem: American protest rallies rely on mass media, not social media.READ»
A modest, recession-inspired demonstration grabs plenty of online attention. Is the future of activism more digital than physical? Fast Company goes inside the Sept. 17 OccupyWallStreet demonstration in New York (and follows reactions online) to find out.READ»
Rebellious groups Anonymous and LulzSec have formed a hacktivist Voltron to strike back against international police efforts to arrest their members; they've hacked the police. It's a war, now. And we've developed a war-room style video of LulzSec's history.READ»
Shunned from new social networking hotness Google+, hacker collective Anonymous is trying to build its own social net, where political dissatisfaction can be voiced without censorship. In other words: an independent state of social networking.READ»
