Defeating Internet Blocking With Lahana VPN-Tor Bridge

As the anti-government protests in Turkey have escalated in the last few days, privacy activists and security experts have begun working on ways to help people inside Turkey get reliable access to the Internet and privacy tools such as Tor. A security researcher over the weekend released a new to...

RIP Aaron Swartz, A legendary Internet Activist

Aaron Swartz has committed suicide on January 11, 2013 in New York City. I have long been fought if you write something about this extraordinary boy, but not dedicate a tribute would be a shame. Aaron Swartz has decided to leave a huge void in the IT scenario. For me, as the entire world he is a...

RIP Aaron Swartz, A legendary Internet Activist

Aaron Swartz has committed suicide on January 11, 2013 in New York City. I have long been fought if you write something about this extraordinary boy, but not dedicate a tribute would be a shame. Aaron Swartz has decided to leave a huge void in the IT scenario. For me, as the entire world he is a...

Developer expelled by Google Play Store on posting Malicious Android apps

Google Play Developer Console enables developers to easily publish and distribute their applications directly to users of Android-compatible phones. Recently someone posted on Reddit that a developer is trying to spread malware by masquerading infected programs as legitimate software. The account...

Developer expelled by Google Play Store on posting Malicious Android apps

Google Play Developer Console enables developers to easily publish and distribute their applications directly to users of Android-compatible phones. Recently someone posted on Reddit that a developer is trying to spread malware by masquerading infected programs as legitimate software. The account...

Mozilla, EFF Help Launch Internet Defense League, a Bat Signal for the Internet

A group of civil-liberties organizations, software companies and popular Web sites are launching a new effort called the Internet Defense League that aims to “help Internet users, organizations, and companies fight back whenever online rights are threatened.” Inspired by the collaborative fight...

Woohooo! After #SopaBlackout, Congress Postpones Action on #SOPA, #PIPA

Woohooo! After SopaBlackout, Congress Postpones Action on SOPA, PIPA A big hurrah to you!!!!! We've won for now SOPA and PIPA were dropped by Congress today. The votes we've been scrambling to mobilize against have been cancelled. When the entire Internet gets angry, Congress takes notice. Both t...

Apple Internship In Hand, Comex Promises 'No More Jailbreaks'

As the now famous iOS hacker best known as “Comex,” Nicholas Allegra was more than willing to weigh in on the vulnerabilities of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system. But now that he has accepted a position as an intern at Apple, Comex said his jailbreaking days are over. In an “ask me anything”...

AOL Postmaster Website hacked by HODLUM

AOL Postmaster Website hacked byHODLUM AOL'spostmaster.aol.com website was hacked Saturday afternoon by someone who goes by the name "HodLuM." The site was slightly defaced with a message from the hacker. "AOL S3RV3RZ ROOT3D BY HODLUM LOLZ! ," the message read. AOL finally discovered the hack, an...

Indictment Names Reddit Luminary In Theft of Data from MIT

A 24 year-old entrepreneur and star programmer has been indicted by the federal authorities in Boston following and accused of hacking into the network of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and making off with millions of pages of copyrighted documents. Aaron Swartz, who is best known as a...

The Reddit Fail Snoo

If you’ve used the bookmarking site Reddit, you’ve no doubt noted the cute little alien that is the company’s mascot. According to our research, the alien is actually called the Reddit “Snoo,” though it’s unclear whether anyone at Reddit refers to it by that name. Given the creature’s resemblance...

[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: drupal-service_links-6.x.1.0-5.fc11

The service links module enables admins to add links to a number of social bookmarking sites, blog search sites etc. Includes sites are del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit, ma.gnolia.com, Newsvine, Furl, Google, Yahoo, Technorati and IceRocket...

Worm Attacks Reddit

The rash of attacks on social networking sites is continuing, this time in the form of a cross-site scripting worm that is currently plaguing Reddit, the popular social bookmarking portal. The Reddit attack is interesting in that it requires a minimum of user interaction in order to spread. The...