About Jeff Belanger
I'm a Canadian, I like to write, I like to play video games, watch movies and read books and all that. Also interested in current affairs and comic books as well.
World of Warcraft has recently been the target of a malware attack which has the chance of infiltrating accounts and stealing user data. Blizzard support recently identified the malware as originating from a fake copy of the Curse...
After the less than stellar launch of the Healthcare.gov website, President Barack Obama and his administration are contemplating their hiring guidelines when it comes to specialists in the tech industry. They are even thinking ab...
Zynga has announced that it is testing out an idea, in association with Bitpay, that would involve them eventually accepting Bitcoin as payment for their games. Zynga let people know about this on Reddit. They stated in the post t...
Google has decided to once again show letting you see links that lead to the Rap Genius site. The site, which for the most part catalogs rap lyrics, had been blacklisted from Google’s search for being involved in a scheme de...
Six months ago, Barnaby Jack, a 36-year old with great hacking ability, died. Now the cause of his death is revealed to be due to a drug overdose. A spokeswoman, speaking on behalf of San Francisco Medical Examiner office, said th...
In Notre-Dame-des-Prairies, Canada, which is a little ways north of Quebec, Line Rainville has spent $30,000 to create a Star Trek themed basement that will make any fan of the series jealous. Rainville is an incredibly big fan of...
According to the Washington Post, it seems that the US government — the National Security Agency (NSA) in particular — is working on a quantum computer which would be able to crack all the encryption that the public us...
On Christmas in Brockton, Mass., an 18-year old man was taken into custody after he (allegedly) pulled a knife on his father. He was apparently upset because he didn’t get an iPhone for the holiday season. The 18-year old in...
A class action lawsuit is being levied against Facebook for the alleged violation of the privacy rights of its members. Those filing the lawsuit are saying that their private messages are being intercepted by Facebook and the data...
The United States Department of Justice is spending $544,338 on… their LinkedIn profile. Their goal is to “reach a large-scale professional network of existing and potential Criminal Division audiences,” said the agency. Acc...
Snapchat has finally responded to the fact that they have been hacked and 4.6 million usernames and phone numbers have been stolen, and they aren’t apologizing for not fixing the security hole despite knowing about it prior ...
It seems Alicia Keys’ time as Blackberry’s global creative director is coming to an end after just a year. It hasn’t been a great year for Blackberry. They tried to go up against the now mobile heavyweights of Sa...
Apple has flat-out denied any knowledge of the NSA installing backdoors into the iPhone’s software. This comes in response to an article in Der Spiegel in which it is stated that analysts from the NSA have called iPhone user...
Through an op-ed piece written on Wednesday night, The New York Times has officially come out and said that they believe that Edward Snowden should receive clemency. The New York Times is one of America’s most influential ne...
Hypedmusic, which was an app that operated on the web, iOS as well as Android and offered free music streaming, has been shut down after a cease and desist from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Luke Li, who is...