Piracy site IsoHunt shut down and to pay $110m fine
IsoHunt, a popular website offering BitTorrents of mostly pirated material, is to shut down following a court settlement. (more…)
Windows 8.1 update glitch stops RT starting up
The latest Windows update is causing problems for owners of Microsoft's Surface RT gadgets. (more…)
Iran’s Cyberwarfare Chief Gunned Down
Two bullets to the heart have terminated the life of Iran’s chief of cyberwarfare, according to the Daily Telegraph. Mojtaba Ahmadi, commander of Iran’s Cyber...
Disconnect Search, Built By Ex-Google And Ex-NSA Engineers, Lets You Use Google, Bing And Yahoo Without Tracking
Started as a side project by then-Googler Brian Kennish back in 2010 to cut out ad tracking during a person’s Facebook browsing session, Disconnect has...
Your future ultra-fast internet connection just launched into space
Elon Musk’s commercial space company, SpaceX, has just launched a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit carrying a Canadian Space Agency satellite, CASSIOPE. Part of the...
Facebook Pushes Passwords One Step Closer to Death
October has always been John Flynn’s favorite time of year, but this year, it’s even better. He gets to spend the month trying to hack...
Snowden leaks: US and UK ‘crack online encryption’
US and UK intelligence have reportedly cracked the encryption codes protecting the emails, banking and medical records of hundreds of millions of people. (more…)
‘Syrian Electronic Army’ site down after attack on New York Times
The website for a hacker group calling itself the “Syrian Electronic Army” was taken offline by an Internet body following claims that the hackers had...
Zuckerberg unveils plan for free Net access for all
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg late Tuesday announced on his Facebook profile page the formation of a partnership with Samsung Electronics, Nokia, Qualcomm and others to...
Feds are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity
Security researchers tonight are poring over a piece of malware that takes advantage of a Firefox security vulnerability to identify some users of the privacy-protecting Tor...