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Is cyber-warfare a genuine threat?

Posted by Blitzer on Saturday, February 12th, 2011

Cyber attacks are already upon us but the rules of digital warfare have yet to be agreed upon. Is it time, as an influential think tank believes, for a digital Geneva Convention? Is it even possible when the internet was designed without country borders and when defining what a “cyber-war” constitutes is near-impossible? “We come [...]

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Manifesto from Anonymous

Posted by Blitzer on Thursday, December 9th, 2010

The new-found attention on Anonymous has led the group to publish its manifesto. In it, it denies that it is a group of hackers. “Anonymous is not an organization…and it most certainly is not a group of hackers,” it said. “Anonymous is an online living consciousness, comprised of different individuals with, at times, coinciding ideals [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘social networks’

How social media has changed any event coverage…

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Leaked video signifies growing power of independent web journalism. We are not intent to discuss the video here but the simple fact of the video’s release also reflects the ongoing revolution in how news gets produced and published. The group, called WikiLeaks, released the Pentagon video on Monday. Less than 24 hours later, the clip [...]

Kneber botnet attacks PCs worldwide

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Hackers in Europe and China successfully broke into computers at nearly 2,500 companies and government agencies over the last 18 months in a coordinated global attack that exposed vast amounts of personal and corporate secrets to theft, according to a computer-security company that discovered the breach. Starting in late 2008, hackers operating a command center [...]

Real-time data in search results

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Google has launched real-time search to give users access to up-to-the-second information. The search giant said it will draw real-time data from over a billion pages on the web. The new feature will also include updates from Twitter and the social networks of MySpace and Facebook. “Information is being created at a pace I have [...]