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Use fear to stop piracy in your neighborhood
Publishers around the world are trying to come up with new and effective ways of stopping us downloading content illegally online. It’s so easy to sit there with a fast cable connection downloading…
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The full fury of Anonymous felt by security company HBGary
Anonymous are renowned for their DDoS attacks on several companies who opposed the whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks, yet so far these attacks have been minor compared to their latest exploit. It appears...
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4Chan aid FBI in preventing school shooting massacre
4Chan is normally associated with carrying out DDoS attacks on behalf of Anonymous, and it seems that the Internet vigilante community is once again involved with an FBI investigation, but this time its…
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Man arrested for slipping porn scene into 2009 Super Bowl broadcast
If you were living near Tucson Arizona, and were watching the 2009 Super Bowl between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals, you probably got an extra bonus during the game that you probably…
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FBI tracking device torndown, was not designed for tinkering
One of the technology websites we cover is iFixit. If you want to know the inner workings of the latest smartphone, iPad, laptop or any other kind of tech device iFixit is where…
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Suspected LulzSec hacker arrested in the UK
Police in the Wickford, Essex announced today that they’ve detained a 19-year old suspected to be the mastermind behind LulzSec, the result of a joint raid conducted by Scotland Yard and the FBI.…
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FBI busts two multi-million dollar malware rings
While it might not be awesome on the scale of Microsoft’s dismantling of the Rustock botnet and triggering a massive downturn in global spam, the FBI’s successful actions against two international...
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US, UK police raid homes of suspected Anonymous and LulzSec members
In a series of coordinated raids, the FBI and London’s Metropolitan Police raided the homes of several suspected Anonymous and LulzSec members, nabbing what authorities in the UK think is one of the…
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Paypal hands over 1,000 IP addresses of Anonymous attackers
When Anonymous took up arms against Paypal last year for freezing Wikileaks‘ account and launched DDoS attacks against the billing and payment company, some of the attackers apparently left behind...
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Tip: Don’t steal a laptop that belongs to an ex-FBI Secret Service employee
Eighteen-year-old Soheil Khalilfar probably thought he had struck the jackpot when he ransacked a flat in West Kensington during the recent London riots and walked away with a 13-inch MacBook Pro. What...
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Pointing a laser at a police helicopter is a very bad idea
Laser pointers seem to get more popular the brighter they get. A good example is the latest product from Wicked Lasers called the S3 Krypton that is 8,000 times brighter than the sun…
View ArticleFBI and Trend Micro orchestrate biggest cybercrime takedown ever
The FBI has been taking a much more visible role in the war on cybercrime this year. Back in June, the Bureau announced its success in shutting down two massive malware rings that…
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FBI inadvertently admits to using Carrier IQ data
Were you thinking that all the hoopla about Carrier IQ was just overblown paranoia? Think again. A Freedom of Information Act request to the FBI led to the FBI inadvertantly admitting that it…
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Gene Simmons to sue the pants off Anonymous
Kiss frontman Gene Simmons hates file sharing. Way back in 2007, he told Billboard Magazine that downloaders should be “sued off the face of the earth.” Last year, he reminded everyone at the…
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A closer look at Kim Dotcom, the larger-than-life founder of Megaupload
You probably heard about yesterday’s federal government takedown of popular file sharing site Megaupload. You may have even heard about the luxury items that were impounded by the Feds. What you may not…
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FBI wants to build a massive social media monitoring app
Get ready for the shock of your lives, Geek.com readers: the FBI is looking for developers who can deliver a powerful social media monitoring application so they can keep tabs on what’s happening…
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Anonymous leaks FBI conference call about Anonymous
No matter what you think of Anonymous, you have to hand it to them: they know how to embarrass authority figures. You could say that they’re playing with fire, but no matter how…
View ArticleDNSChanger shutdown coming July 9th: find out if you’re affected
After this weekend, around a third of a million computers may no longer be able to browse web pages, send or receive email, or do anything else on the internet without knowing specific…
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Call of Duty-style raid on Kim Dotcom’s home revealed in video
You’ve probably read a number of times about the “slightly American” raid of Kim Dotcom’s Auckland, New Zealand compound, but until now no video of the event was available. Footage, primarily taken by…
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24-year-old notorious ZeuS botmaster arrested
The ZeuS botnet is one of the most notorious in existence, and it’s also one that has earned its masters some pretty massive payouts. For at least one ZeuS botmaster, however, the cash…
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