Operation Payback: WikiLeaks Avenged by Hacktivists

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Operation Payback: WikiLeaks Avenged by Hacktivists


Operation Payback: WikiLeaks Avenged by Hacktivists

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 08:00 AM PST


WikiLeaks has been experiencing some issues lately ranging from having its Web hosting services shutdown to having its accounts frozen and the flow of money cut off. Some cheer those actions, while others see them as an attack on liberty and free speech and are coming to WikiLeaks' defense.

Average illegal downloader is 28-year-old male

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 08:00 AM PST


The average illegal downloader is a male and aged 28, according to a researcher from the the University of Portsmouth Business School.

Expert: As smartphones become wallets, pickpockets circle

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 08:00 AM PST


Androids, iPhones and BlackBerries are becoming more like wallets each day -- and the bad guys are starting to take notice, eEye CTO Marc Maiffret warns.

Regulatory compliance hogs security pros’ attention

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 02:00 AM PST


One out of every two IT security professionals spends 50% of the work week on regulatory compliance initiatives, according to a new survey sponsored by eEye Digital Security.

New Facebook changes not a huge blow to privacy, say experts

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 08:00 AM PST


Facebook's Monday launch of a new profile layout is not receiving the same kind of negative reactions from privacy experts that past changes have elicited. The social networking site has raised many eyebrows in the last two years after several design changes have lead to what many feared was a decrease in privacy for users and an overzealous attempt by Facebook to get users to share information--sometimes unknowingly, and sometimes and at their peril.

Card makers hope to upset transit card security status quo

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 08:00 AM PST


Two smartcard makers and two chip makers hope that a new specification for securing contactless card transactions will upset the status quo in the public transit card market.

Classified documents: Where’s the encryption and user control?

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 08:00 AM PST


It's alleged that all of the documents Wikileaks published – hundreds of thousands of pages of data about the Iraq and Afghan wars and diplomatic postings from around the world – were leaked by Private Bradley Manning, who joined the US Army in 2007 and was posted to Baghdad, where he worked on classified army networks.

Hacked Indian investigation agency web site yet to return

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 08:00 AM PST


Close to four days after the site of India's key investigation agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), was hacked and defaced, the web site is still inaccessible to users.

Hackers promoted bogus terror attack at APEC 2009

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 08:00 AM PST


More information has come to light about the hacking attacks against Singapore Government and APEC officials at last year's Lion City meetings of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC).

WikiLeaks furor spawns rival DDOS battles

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 08:00 AM PST


An anonymous, loosely affiliated group that has been responsible for a series of recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against entertainment industry Web sites over copyright issues, has started attacking organizations viewed as being hostile to WikiLeaks, says a PandaLabs researcher.

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