A computer hacker who has fled Syria in exile reportedly hacked into the computers of Syria’s secret police and, among other things, discovered porn on them. The Syrian hacker, who remains nameless, and several of his friend...
McDonald’s has announced that it will roll out free WiFi in China. The move, which will affect over 1400 McDonald restaurants in the country, is apparently part of a bigger one set in motion by the Chinese government, who ap...
In a move that is clearly a response to the fact that communications between Yahoo data centers have been monitored by the National Security Agency, Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s CEO, has promised to have Yahoo’s user data en...
A new study done by the University of Glasgow has found that there is no direct link between playing video games and bad behavior in children. The study was conducted in Britain and had a very large test sample, with 11,000 kids p...
Another judge is unhappy with the conduct of the National Security Agency (NSA). This time it is Judge John D. Bates of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) — the court that must give approval for surveillance ...
Activists have revealed that there are weaknesses within the system that allows China to control their internet, popularly know as Great Firewall of China. They had done so in response to further Chinese censorship of both the Reu...
Probably the most interesting and funny response to the information revelation that Adobe had saved its users password hints, as well as emails, in just a plain text format, is the fact that someone has created a series of 10 cros...
It seems as if Steve Ballmer, who has just stepped down as Microsoft’s CEO, decided on this decision after a lot of pushing from his fellow board members to go “faster”. Ballmer recently gave an exclusive intervi...
Apparently Microsoft, one of the most popular computer companies, does not have any data encryption when it comes to “server-to-server communications”. This means when your data is passing from one Microsoft server to ...
IBM will be giving developers access to their supercomputer, Watson, in 2014. Developers will be able to program apps which would build off of Watson’s language skills as well as it’s database. The supercomputer has 4 ...
There have been a flurry of rumor reports flying around about how Snapchat CEO, Evan Spiegel, turned down billions. We reported about his refusal to sell to Facebook for $3 billion. Soon after, Google reportedly made an attempt to...
The activist group known as Anonymous, sometimes referred to as hacktivists given that their members are known to hack to into various institutions when trying to get a specific point across, are gaining the FBI’s attention ...
In a move to make the internet more secure, the Internet Engineering Task Force, or IETF, have started the discussion on how to encrypt… everything. It is more imperative than ever since the knowledge of government spying an...
In a move that will be surprising to absolutely no one who has been paying attention to China’s government in the past, the Chinese government is apparently actively considering how they can further control internet usage in...
A court in Washington, D.C. has ordered The US Department of Homeland Security to reveal details on exactly how “Standard Operating Procedure 303” works. With this procedure Homeland Security is able to shut down wirel...
