Rupert and James Murdoch To Not Know Things at New Leveson Hearing
If this father-son News Corporation duo's responses during last year's parliamentary hearings are any indication, hack-gate watchers shouldn't expect to learn very much.
China's worried enough about the information going out on the U.S.-based Chinese language site Boxun.com that it apparently took the trouble to knock the site offline, so now we're going to add Boxun to our list of sites worth reading about the Bo Xilai scandal.
If this father-son News Corporation duo's responses during last year's parliamentary hearings are any indication, hack-gate watchers shouldn't expect to learn very much.
Thanks to Twitter, Rupert Murdoch's next "war" is only 140 characters away. This week, it just happens to be with "lies and libels", "old toffs and rightwingers" and a damning BBC documentary about News Corp.'s alliance with computer hackers.
Syrian opposition activists quietly watched President Bashar al-Assad trade crisis-management tips with Iran and order Right Said Fred songs from iTunes as they secretly accessed his email until Assad shut down his account after a totally separate hack by Anonymous.
Journalists at News International are "on the edge" and two have reportedly tried to commit suicide as the inquiry into phone hacking and bribery at Rupert Murdoch's U.K. papers moves forward amid internal rancor that even a visit from uncle Rupert probably can't quell.
One day after Piers Morgan's evasive testimony denying phone hacking during his editorship at The Daily Mirror, James Hipwell, an ex-columnist has offered up contrary details to the Leveson Inquiry, claiming the practice was widespread at The Mirror.
If Anonymous learned anything in 2011, it ought to be this: the government takes it very seriously when people break into its secret networks, and so does KISS.
Hacking somebody's printer remotely seems like a silly idea -- how would you pick up your fraudulent documents? But researchers at Columbia say they've found a way to do it, and one effect could be setting the things on fire from afar.
It's not like China or Russia are looking at your embarrassing purchases or the hours you spend watching cat videos--it's all about economics.
Cody Krestinger has a court date on December 13
According to provisions in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
In an ironic stroke of genius, Apple has hired Nicholas Allegra as an intern
Greg Miskiw returned to the United Kingdom recently to participate in the investigation
As "hacks" abound, there's some debate on what the term actually means
The group left some broad new ideas about computer security, and maybe a few viruses
Contrary to reports of the group's demise, LulzSec is still active under a new name
A letter expresses support for further disclosures, just not by them
The currency's downward spiral continues as EEF, digital rights advocacy group, exits
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