Government Dismisses Key Charges Against Barrett Brown: Great News For Journalists Since It Preserves The Right To Hyperlink by Andy Stepanian Today the US Government moved to dismiss 11 of the 17 charges levied against Barrett Brown. Reducing Barrett’s potential sentence from 105 years to something significantly less. Kevin M….
Student, 13, stages Anonymous protest against school officials trying to fingerprint her in a lunch line
By Justin KingA 13-year-old student at a school in Wales refused to submit to the data collection. Melody, whose last name is being withheld due to her age, doubted the school’s good intentions when it was declared that fingerprints were going to be collected from students in order to shorten…
LulzSec Peru hacks Twitter account of Venezuela’s Ruling Party against Twitter Cencorship
World renowned hacktivists from LulzSec Peru have hacked a verified Twitter account of United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). After taking over the Twitter account, the hacktivists changed the official description of @PartidoPSUV and its profile picture. The new discretion currently reads: “Don’t mess with the best. Hacked by LulzSec Peru.” Softpedia reports that LulzSec Peru also posted several…
Huge props to Tumblr for joining the fight against mass…
Huge props to Tumblr for joining the fight against mass surveillance and backing The Day We Fight Back. staff: Last month Tumblr took a decisive step toward transparency, and today we’re asking that our government do the same. We’re standing with our colleagues from across the web to demand transparency…
Our statement on GCHQ’s war against Anonymous.
Our statement on GCHQ’s war against Anonymous. View full post on Your Anon News Read More…. View full post on The Cyber Wars
Join the fight against surveillance. Add the banner code to your…
Join the fight against surveillance. Add the banner code to your site today The banner changes automatically based on the nationality of the visitors. Adding to your banner is simple, just add the code below to your site, just before the closing tag. (function(){var e=document. Read More…. View…
DOJ seeks death penalty against accused Boston Marathon bomber Tsarnaev
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Europe and its battle against cyber crime
2013 was the year for new cyber security laws and regulations across Europe. Cyber criminals have hacked NATO, government agencies and corporations for some years and Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) recently announced the hacking of 16 million German email accounts, a massive security breach very similar to…
Cyber security threats growing against users, companies, Cisco says
Cyber security threats continue to plague users and businesses trying to defend against increasingly sophisticated and well-executed attacks, according to the Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report. Cyber security is a major business as Cisco and other companies develop cyber security efforts to protect end-users and businesses.Read more at http://www.tweaktown.com/news/34948/cyber-security-threats-growing-against-users-companies-cisco-says/index.html#JaW2UYbdpLLl8RgH.99 View full post…
Lastline’s Innovative Anti-Hacking Service Detects and Protects Against Malware Code
Traditional anti-virus software is designed to detect the malware, or malicious software, before it disrupts and then distributes sensitive, personal information to unintended recipients. The trouble with some of those software programs, however, is speed and accuracy. As technology has progressed, so have the cyber hackers, a detail not lost on UC Santa…