Posts in category Security
Judge Rules IP Address Not Valid Means of Identification
According to TorrentFreak and documents coming from the Southern District Court of Florida, an IP address cannot be used to specifically identify an individual especially …
Turkish Government Blocks Twitter After Corruption Leaks
After some audio leaks that led to claims of government corruption became available on Twitter, Turkey’s elected Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that he would …
Bitcoin Flaw That Caused Mt.Gox Disaster Gets Patched
So, the transaction malleability hole in Bitcoin has finally been patched with the latest version of Bitcoin, version 0.90 available on Github. This version fixes the …
US Relinquishing Oversight of ICANN Amid Pressure From Other Countries
As a clear result of the revelations of Edward Snowden’s documents on NSA spying and other countries’ distrust of the US Government, the Obama Administration …
How 162,000 WordPress Sites Were Used for DDoS Attacks
In a unique approach towards an ever more common style of attack, DDoSing, someone has managed to use the Pingback function of WordPress sites in …
Feds Seize Mt.Gox Assets Shortly After Filing for Bankruptcy in US
After having claimed to have been hacked and possibly losing all of their users’ Bitcoins and then filing for bankruptcy in Japan, leaving all of …
ecoATM – An Easy Way to Recycle Your Phone For Cash
We got a unique opportunity to sit down with EcoATM?s Founder and CMO Mark Bowles to talk about the company?s history and how they managed …
Mt.Gox Goes Bankrupt, Leaves Users Out to Dry
As if the drama surrounding what was once the world’s biggest BitCoin exchange wasn’t enough, today we come to you with news that Mt.Gox is …
Mt.Gox Drama Continues, Site Shuts Down, Users Lose Over $400M!
The popular BitCoin exchange, Mt.Gox has today gone offline amid allegations that they had been ‘hacked’ and that over $400 million worth of BitCoins had …
Irrational Games Shutting Down
Irrational Games, once known as 2K Games, Boston, the makers of the popular Bioshock franchise of games have decided to wind down operations of the …
ASUS Router Exploit Left Unpatched for Months? Hackers Exploit to Warn Users
In what appears to be an example of gross negligence, ASUS has apparently left a vulnerability in the majority of their routers completely unpatched for …
Kickstarter Website Hacked, User Data Stolen
Probably the most globally recognized crowdfunding website in the world, Kickstarter, today announced that they had been compromised by hackers and that user data had …
California State Senator Proposes Cellular Kill Switch Bill
Under the guise of preventing smartphone theft, California State Senator Mark Leno has released a proposed bill to the California Legislature that could result in …
How The GCHQ Forced The Guardian to Destroy Their Computers
Now, we are all very interested in the world of teardowns like the ones posted of new hardware on iFixit. But the teardown that occurred …
Google Publishes Transparency Report of Government Information Requests
Google, today, has released their much awaited Transparency Report, which details all of the governmental information requests given to the company in the past four years. …
How The GCHQ Forced The Guardian to Destroy Their Computers
Now, we are all very interested in the world of teardowns like the ones posted of new hardware on iFixit. But the teardown that occurred …
How the NSA and GCHQ Use Smartphone Photos and Apps to Snoop
As things about the NSA and their partner agencies continue to trickle out from various newspapers like Der Spiegel, The Guardian and the New York …
TigerDirect Accepting BitCoin Payments for Purchases
Yesterday, TigerDirect.com announced that they would be accepting Bitcoins as an official form of payment for purchases made on their website. They also put up …
