Israeli Government Secretly Pays for Pro-Israel Twitter Propaganda

It’s been called publicity war, social media propaganda and a network of advocacy. It depends who is talking which term is used to describe ...

Botnet "Pony" harvests two million passwords for Facebook, Twitter and Google, posted online

Source : AP Over 2 million passwords for popular social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as Google and Yahoo accounts ...

Hotfile Shuts Down and Takes User Files With It, another win for the MAFIAA

A few hours after news broke that Hotfile had signed a $80 million settlement agreement with the MPAA, the file-hosting service has complete...

Russell Brand gives his new DVD away by tweeting a link to pirate bay proxy (for UK users to bypass block on TPB)

English comedian Russell Brand is no stranger to controversy and in the past few days the funnyman has been at it again, this time concernin...

US Citizen Charged Under UAE Cybercrime Decree, law came into effect one month after video was posted

A US citizen has become the first foreigner to be charged under the United Arab Emirates' "cybercrime" decree for a satirical ...

MPAA Wants Up to $500 Million in Damages from Hotfile, case coming to a close

The trial between the MPAA and Hotfile starts next week and the movie studios are hoping to get over a quarter billion in damages from the f...

Vodafone Iceland Hacked, 70,000 User's Personal Data Leaked

Text messages of Icelandic MPs and ministers are now accessible online, as well as texts, passwords and other personal data of over 70,000 V...

FilesTube Search Engine First to Smash 10 Million DMCA Notice Barrier

Google’s popularity means that it is one of the first places users turn to when they’re trying to find content online. That also includes un...

Encrypted social network vies for disgruntled WhatsApp, Facebook users

With the look of Google Plus and Facebook-like elements, a new social network named "Syme" feels as cozy as a well-worn shoe. But...

China claims victory in scrubbing Internet clean, suppresses criticism of Government

The Chinese government has declared victory in cleaning up what it considers rumors, negativity and unruliness from online discourse, while ...

MPAA Banned From Using Piracy and Theft Terms in Hotfile Trial

Leading up to the trial, Hotfile has scored several significant wins against the MPAA. The Florida federal court ruled on several motions th...

Syrian Electronic Army hacks TIME magazine over Assad's candidacy for person of the year

The hacktivist pro-Assad group known as the “Syrian Electronic Army” (SEA) briefly hijacked the Twitter feeds of TIME magazine in response t...

Court Orders Google, Microsoft & Yahoo to Make Pirate Sites Disappear

While its common for search engines to receive DMCA takedown requests for specific URLs, events in France have taken things to a whole new l...

Unpublished Salinger Books Leaked to Private File-Sharing Site

File-sharing sites and platforms of all kinds can be goldmines of unusual information and today fans of writer J. D. Salinger will be the on...

U.S. Government Caught Pirating Military Software, Settles For $50 Million

For years the U.S. military operated pirated copies of logistics software that was used to protect soldiers and shipments in critical missio...

Texas Hacker Debunks Link Between Bitcoin Founder and Online Drug Market

Source : Dustin Trammell Israeli academics Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir thought they may have uncovered an intriguing link between the anonymous...

Landmark Beyonce BitTorrent Prosecution Fails to Intimidate

A music producer and DJ who uploaded a Beyonce album to the Internet in advance of its official release has been found guilty of copyright i...

Kwikdesk lets you send anonymous ephemeral messages in English and now Chinese

Visual artist Kevin Abosch has launched a web-based tool called Kwikdesk which allows people to anonymously send messages of up to 300 cha...

Pirate Bay Founder Ordered to Take Down Russian Pirate Sites

Following Gottfrid Svartholm’s detainment in Sweden and his upcoming extradition to Denmark, Russia is also going after the Pirate Bay found...

Bitcoin developers offer $10,000 virtual bounty to fix mystery Mac bug

Price fluctuations and hackers aren't the only challenge facing the virtual currency Bitcoin, with developers pooling funds for a virtu...

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