After hacking up government websites last week , and the week before , Anonymous has pulled off another hack to push their agenda of reforming computer crime law in the wake of Aaron Swartz’s suicide . This time, they’ve leaked names, addresses, and other information about over 4,000 bank executives . And they did it all on a government site. More »
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Anonymous Leaked Account Data for 4,000 Bank Executives on a Government Website
When UK photographer Matt Bigwood took a workshop in pinhole photography, he was inspired to create his own, simple project. So, armed with some empty beer cans and a roll of tape, he set out to make a camera. More »
Asteroid-mining company Deep Space Industries has just announced plans to launch a fleet of “FireFly” spacecraft as soon as 2015. Their mission? Find asteroids, rich with valuable metals, that could aid in humanity’s colonization of space. More »
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“FireFly” spaceships to begin exploring asteroids in 2015
The Anonymous hacking collective has petitioned the White House, using the US government’s open forum to ask for DDoS attacks to be registered as an official form of complaint – and requesting the convictions of previous DDoS attackers be wiped from their records. More »
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Anonymous Wants DDoS Recognised as an Official Form of Protest
paysonwelch points out John McAfee’s latest blog post, which “details the complex spy network that he used to tap information from the highest echelons of the Belizean government. He might consider a new career as a movie producer — this blog post is enthralling. Here is an excerpt: ‘I purchased 75 cheap laptop computers and, with trusted help, intalled invisible keystroke logging software on all of them — the kind that calls home (to me) and disgorges the text files. I began giving these away as presents to select people — government employees, police officers, Cabinet Minister’s assistants, girlfriends of powerful men, boyfriends of powerful women.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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John McAfee Explains How He Milked Information From Belize’s Elite
On its peak day this holiday shopping season, Amazon sold an astonishing 26.5 million items at a rate of 306 items per second. And the honor of being the “#1 best-selling, most gifted, and most wished for product” goes to Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD. The release is chock full of wins for Amazon but take a look at the below image: More »
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Amazon Sets Holiday Shopping Records Despite Making Half Of What It Made Last Year
November 29, 2012, between 1026 and 1029 (UTC), all traffic from Syria to the rest of the Internet stopped. At CloudFlare, we witnessed the drop off. CloudFlare spent yesterday morning studying the situation to understand what happened. The following graph shows the last several days of traffic coming to CloudFlare’s network from Syria. More »
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How Syria Turned Off the Internet
After the US and Israel cooked up Stuxnet—a potent cyber weapon aimed at Iran’s nuclear facilities—whenever a virus targets Iran, it could be something major. This time around, the web threat wants to erase Iranian banks . More »
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New Money-Destroying Virus Attacks Iran
There’s a copyright notice people have been posting on Facebook over the past couple of days similar to privacy notice that made the rounds several months ago. Before you copy paste it on your own profile, stop. It’s bogus and unenforceable . More »
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That Facebook Copyright Notice Is Worthless
If you have access to a dead computer power supply you can use the case, power switch, wiring, and power port along with a 5v lead acid battery and a landscaping lamp bulb to create a rechargeable lantern. More »
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Hack a Dead PC Power Supply Into a Rechargeable Lantern