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Taliban on Twitter: How congressional attempts to block them is asinine on 2 levels
Twitter is used by different people for different things. It's a communication tool for some, a news aggregator for others,...
Security: The final piece to the digital wallet puzzle
We have everything we need. The technology has been around for over a decade. The adoption of smartphones and other...
SOPA vote delayed
The House Judiciary Committee has ceased without a vote to try to pass the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) out...
Visualizing SOPA, the internet blacklist bill
After last week's high-energy American Censorship Day flew through with amazing responses from websites everywhere, much of the buzz has...
4Chan is back up after 3 day DDoS attack
It isn't the first time that 4Chan has gone down and it won't be the last, but this one is...
The US government failed to uphold its own principles by unlocking WikiLeaks-related Twitter accounts
The precedent has been set and it's a very bad one. A US judge ruled that Twitter must release all...
Everything you needed to know about firewalls
The term "firewall" has one that most people know but few understand. It's often confused with anti-virus software because of...
Six Privacy Concerns About Facebook’s Latest Features
It's been over a month since Mark Zuckerberg unveiled many of the changes that have happened or will happen soon...
As internet criminal activity decreases, botnets skyrocket
Everyone has heard of hackers, viruses, and spam. What fewer people have heard of or understand are botnets despite statistics...
Sesame Street YouTube Channel Hacked, serves Adult Content
For 22 minutes, viewers unexpectedly encountered unauthorized content when they went to the Sesame Street YouTube channel, and certainly not...
Fed to start monitoring social networks for sentiment
In December, the Fed will begin monitoring Facebook, Twitter, and much of the rest of the internet in an effort...
Cali. Gov. Brown to allow police to search phones without a warrant
Despite heavy support from both parties and an outcry of the people, California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a bill passed...
American drone weapons consoles infected with keystroke-logging virus
US Predator and Reaper drones in Afghanistan were hacked and a virus inserted into their remote cockpits at Creech Air...
Links on Facebook to be screened for viruses
Phishers and hackers have found that social media is a great place to plant links to malicious websites as unsuspecting...
Amazon Silk is just another invasion of privacy
Amazon is getting a lot of attention based upon the Amazon Fire tablet, but now that buzz around the initial...
Voting machines shown to be hackable remotely
We have the technology. The hanging-chad debacle of the 2000 presidential election proved that we had the need. Now, as...
Warning: MySQL.com was hacked, serves extremely malicious malware
With over 12 million monthly visitors, word must get out to keep people from going to MySQL(dot)com until they get...
Twitter cashes in on the 2012 election
Twitter is already a popular destination for political discourse, but the social network wants to beef up its involvement in...
DDoS takes down UK’s Russian embassy website before PM visit to Moscow
It has been 5 years since a British leader has visited Moscow. On the eve of the first visit since...
“The Circular Economy” makes sense, hits home in the tech world
There are very few environmental perspectives that grab our attention. In 2011, we know we need to recycle, to not...