Snowden’s Attorney Talks Govt Harrassment of Whistleblower Helpers (Part One)

Human rights lawyer Robert Tibbo represented former N.S.A. contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden when he fled the United States to Hong Kong in 2013. Less publicized has been Tibbo’s work representing several families from the Hong Kong refugee community that welcomed Snowden into their...

International Women’s Day: Women in tech share their stories

From the metoo movement to Oprah's Time's Up speech to the women's marches on cities throughout the world—it's been a banner year for women's rights. And on this International Women's Day, we wanted to do more than pay lip service to the changes in feminist dialogue. After all, tech is an industr...

Harassment By Package Delivery

People harassing women by delivering anonymous packages purchased from Amazon. On the one hand, there is nothing new here. This could have happened decades ago, pre-Internet. But the Internet makes this easier, and the article points out that using prepaid gift cards makes this anonymous. I am...

Harassment scandals, Sheldon Cooper, Black Mirror and blockchain

Lots of good jokes in a popular TV show The Big Bang Theory are related to Sheldon Cooper's bureaucracy in interpersonal relationships: all these "roommate agreement", "relationship agreement", etc. However, because of these endless harassment scandals in media, now it seems like a best practice ...

Augmented Reality games and real-world trolling

Augmented Reality games—where you wave a device around and the digital collides with reality— have been booming in popularity ever since Pokemon GO! rolled into mobile storefronts. However, many AR games haven't really been designed with the possible consequences of real-world safety in mind. Tak...

Core Tor Developer who accuses FBI of Harassment moves to Germany

One of TOR's primary software developers, Isis Agora Lovecruft, has fled to Germany, following the threat of a federal subpoena. Lovecruft is a well-known cryptographer and lead software developer for Tor project from many years. She has worked for a variety of other security and encryption...

17-Year-Old Lizard Squad Member Found Guilty Of 50,700 Hacking Charges

An alleged member of Lizard Squad, who claimed responsibility for knocking Sony's PlayStation Network and Microsoft's Xbox Live offline late last year has been convicted of 50,700 counts of cyber crime. The infamous computer hacker gang Lizard Squad launched massive Distributed Denial-of-Service...

Iran Defense Forum users logins compromised and Leaked

Iran Defense Forum users logins compromised and Leaked Hacker with name "Le0n B3lm0nt" claimed to hack into the Iran Defense Forum website irandefence.net and leak user details of all 3,212 members including their usernames, Emails and Passwords. Iran Defense Forum is an independent forum that is...

Facebook : 'No more anonymous on Internet'

Facebook : 'No more anonymous on Internet' The sister of Facebook CEO , Randi Zuckerberg wants to put an end to online anonymity.Fcaebook wants to force people to use their real names on Profiles. Randi Zuckerberg is Facebook's marketing director, believes users would act much more responsibly on...

Colombian Anonymous Hackers reveal personal data of Colombian police officials

Colombian Anonymous Hackers reveal personal data of Colombian police officials Colombian Anonymous Hackers announced that they had sent spam bombs to some 250 officials of Colombia's national Police https://colombiareports.com and revealed personal data of employees of the National Police invitin...

Colombian Anonymous Hackers reveal personal data of Colombian police officials

Colombian Anonymous Hackers reveal personal data of Colombian police officials Colombian Anonymous Hackers announced that they had sent spam bombs to some 250 officials of Colombia's national Police https://colombiareports.com and revealed personal data of employees of the National Police invitin...

U.S. investigators demand details about WikiLeaks' Twitter account from court !

U.S. investigators have gone to court to demand details about WikiLeaks' Twitter account, according to documents obtained Saturday -- the first revelation about the criminal case Washington is trying to build against those who leaked classified U.S. documents. The U.S. District Court for the...

Cyber harassment : Girl's morphed photo and phone number put on web !

BANGALORE: An Information Technology student who is in Bangalore in search of employment has filed a complaint against a youth for harassment. Thyagarajanagar police have registered a case against one Krishna Mohan who hails from Andhra Pradesh under the Information Technology Act 2000. The accus...

South Carolina Bill Targets Cybercrimes with Up to 10-Year Prison Terms

Computer hackers and unauthorized informants could face up to 10 years in prison under a proposed state law designed to protect South Carolina military installations from WikiLeaks-type scandals. Charleston Republican Rep. Chip Limehouse announced on Monday that his bill, which will be considered...

CVE-2000-0960

The POP3 server in Netscape Messaging Server 4.15p1 generates different error messages for incorrect user names versus incorrect passwords, which allows remote attackers to determine valid users on the system and harvest email addresses for spam abuse...