They were doing just fine before, but the biggest of Facebook's minority owners are about to be catapulted into a far more elite bracket. As we ponder what they'll do with with new millions (or an estimated $3.4 billion, in Sean Parker's case), here's a look at what got them where they are today. 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»
Cory Arcangel has said he thinks of his paintings as readymade sculptures, and his affinity for using just about anything at hand as an avenue for making art is one of his most endearing qualities. Since 2004, when his reprogrammed ...READ»
Thousands of sensitive files were stolen from a defense contractor, the Pentagon has admitted this week--one of the highest profile hack attacks of this year, and the Pentagon is blaming "foreign intruders." In the latest Breach of the Week, we look at how the sting might have gone down.
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Remember the Stuxnet computer virus? Initially found to have infested big-time control systems around the world, its true purpose quickly emerged: to attack and destroy the nuclear centrifuges at Iran's Natanz nuclear enrichment ...READ»
I'm excited to announce that i'm going to be participating in the first Mozilla Drumbeat Festival on the Future of Learning, Freedom and the Web, in Barcelona, Spain this November 3-5.Mozilla, the creators of the open-source ...READ»
Good morning! What's been happening while you’re sound asleep you’re your comfy mattress—or perhaps your Aerobed outside the Mac store? Here's five things you might've missed. 1. Weev only just begun. The mastermind ...READ»
This, people, is Andrew Auernheimer, the hacker who last week exposed 114,000 iPad owners' details courtesy of AT&T's lax security system. He also goes by the name of Escher, but we'll call him by yet another alias: Weev. (Whether ...READ»
Search engines would be more efficient if they were decentralized, reports MIT's Technology Review. In other words, they'd be faster if they were run like bot-nets.
Bot-nets are networks of zombie computers whose processing resources ...READ»
Last week I wrote about a phishing and malware scam that has plagued Facebook for weeks. It wasn't quite a virus, because it affected Mac users--but it wasn't entirely Web-based either, because some of the links it hawked were ...READ»
Hackers have stolen terabytes of data about the design and electronics inside the Defense Department's Joint Strike Fighter program, The Wall Street Journal reported last night. The $300 billion jet is the most expensive program in ...READ»
At a security conference yesterday in Vancouver, a hacker exploited a security hole in Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 8 in under two hours, taking control of a Sony laptop running an internal build of Windows 7. IE8 was launched ...READ»
Hackers breached the network of the Federal Aviation Administration earlier this week and gained access to sensitive records, according to an aviation trade publication. The FAA breach has prompted President Obama to order an ...READ»
