If hacker collective Anonymous dominated the headlines the first half of this year, the second half may belong to upstart Lulz Security, whose brazen and prolific hacking is unprecedented.
In the past 30 days its targets have run the gamut from PBS to Sony to the CIA, and LulzSec has recently set its sights on Anonymous itself. So …
It’s sad, but it’s true: Spam is as spam does. It gets everywhere. It’s now found its way into Amazon’s Kindle e-book store.
One of the great things about the Kindle store is that anyone can sign up as an author, upload a manuscript, and “publish” it for instant sales to millions of Kindle owners, desperate to consume more e-ink …
NASA’s Mercury-bound Messenger spacecraft dropped into orbit around the tiny, orbitally eccentric planet just a few months ago, and it’s already sent back enough data to notably alter our take on the first rock from the sun.
For starters, indiscernible features that previously resembled “bright, patchy deposits”
I briefly mentioned Duck Duck Go in my new Technologizer column for TIME.com—which is mostly about Google’s bevy of new search features—but it deserves more attention. Its mascot may be a genial waterfowl, but the site is the biggest underdog in search: It’s operated by one guy, a Philadelphian named Gabriel Weinberg.
And the lulz just keep on coming, with yet another security breach claimed by LulzSec. I’ve now stopped putting “LulzSec” in quotes (EXCEPT FOR RIGHT THERE!). You can see all our previous LulzSec coverage here.
(MORE: ‘We Do It for the Lulz’: What Makes LulzSec Tick?)
As the story goes, LulzSec released some 62,000 e-mail addresses …
Nowadays, we’re used to hearing about technology companies appearing and disappearing in the blink of an eye, where the competitive dogma of the business world has many fighting for scraps just to stay alive.
Too often, it’s because these fat cow companies tend to rest on their laurels, chasing quick dollars after building scale (like …
Apple’s iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) are the coolest mobile gadgets on the planet. Apple maintains tight control over its platform and every piece of software created for it.
What’s a technology rival to do?
The only thing it can: aim at the weak spot, at the iOS Achilles’ heel. It has a blue icon. It’s called …
As hacktivist group LulzSec steps up its game and targets serious quarry like the U.S. Senate and CIA, authorities worldwide have been rounding up individuals suspected of participating in Anonymous, the group behind scores of international cyber attacks, most notoriously recent ones against Sony.
LulzSec—purportedly a more …
Turns out there’s a whole lot more users that are going to be affected by the Citibank breach than everyone thought.
Just last week, it became apparent that Citibank had been hacked in early May. It wasn’t until nearly three weeks later that the bank notified everyone about the situation, revealing that about 200,000 accounts were …
Occasionally supermassive and always super-ominous, light-devouring black holes may be the most spectacular byproduct of our Newtonian universe, and now we know a little more about how long they’ve been out there and what they’re up to, thanks to NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Astronomers pointed Chandra at a strip of sky for over …
Notorious hacker group LulzSec isn’t pulling punches—it now claims to have taken down the CIA’s website just today, Wednesday afternoon.
“Tango down – cia.gov – for the lulz,” the group wrote on its official Twitter feed just after 6pm ET.
And again, shortly thereafter: “Lulz Security, where the entertainment is always at your …
“Cookies,” say the bureaucrats at the European Union. “We hates them.”
And therein lies a problem.
Cookies, you see, are everywhere on the net. And your computer, too. A cookie is a teeny-tiny little text file that gets left on your computer by pretty much every single website you visit.
They’re actually quite useful. Cookies …
