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The FBI Is Struggling to Hire Hackers Who Don't Smoke Weed
The FBI has a problem. The agency needs to hire hackers to build out its cyber crime division, but it also will not hire anyone who's smoked weed in the past three years. And guess what? A lot of hackers like to smoke weed.
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Anonymous seizes Ku Klux Klan Twitter account over Ferguson threats
After racial hate group Ku Klux Klan said it would use 'lethal force' on Ferguson protesters, a skirmish with Anonymous erupted: Anonymous has now seized two primary KKK Twitter accounts.
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Debt collectors are the true ancestors of Facebook’s emotions experiment
Facebook’s efforts in 2012 to manipulate the emotions of its users for part of an academic study have left the kingpin social network struggling to explain its actions. Maybe part of their mistake was to publish. The 1960s debt collectors who conducted some very similar experiments were far less cavalier.
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The Sony Pictures Hack Was Even Worse Than Everyone Thought
Sony Pictures suffered a pretty devastating hack last week. In fact, according to documents recently leaked on the web, it looks like Sony Pictures might've just suffered one of the worst corporate hacks in history. Salary numbers, layoff strategies, personal details of laid off staffers, and some 3,800 Social Security numbers are now out in the open.
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Senate staffer tries to scrub 'torture' reference from Wikipedia's CIA torture article
An anonymous Wikipedia user from an IP address that is registered to United States Senate has tried, and failed, to remove a phrase with the word "torture" from the website's article on the Senate Intelligence Committee's blockbuster CIA torture report. The unknown individual has attempted on at least two occasions — first on Dec. 9 and then on Dec. 10 — to remove a line describing the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques as "a euphemism for torture."
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A Cyber Attack May Have Caused a Turkish Oil Pipeline to Catch Fire in 2008
In his book @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex, journalist Shane Harris describes how some of America’s top hackers came up with Stuxnet, a cyber-weapon that was to be the “first-of-its-kind.” (Harris is a fellow at New America, where I work; Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State.) Stuxnet was discovered in 2010 after it had degraded an estimated 1,000 centrifuges in Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant. It was widely considered...
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Anonymous gets its revenge on Sweden after Pirate Bay shutdown
A "hacktivist" group using the Anonymous banner claims it has leaked official login details of Swedish government email accounts as payback for last week's raid that shut down The Pirate Bay. "HagashTeam" released the sensitive data in a document on Pastebin, which also includes login credentials for what appear to be official email accounts of the Israeli, Indian, Brazilian, Argentinian and Mexican administrations.
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Researchers Make BitTorrent Anonymous and Impossible to Shut Down
While the BitTorrent ecosystem is filled with uncertainty and doubt, researchers at Delft University of Technology have released the first version of their anonymous and decentralized BitTorrent network.
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Watching a USB Hack in Action Makes Me Never Want to Leave My Computer
Remember BadUSB, the pervasive and unfixable security vulnerability that turns every USB device into a vector for attacks against just about every computer? The one that's out in the wild now? I always knew it was bad, but this video really brought it home for me and now I want to fill my USB ports up with cement.
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Websites of towns near Paris hacked, replaced with ISIS flag
As the manhunt continued for two brothers suspected of carrying out the massacre at the office of French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo, several municipalities near Paris had their websites taken over with the image of an ISIS flag. Wednesday’s attack in Paris has not been linked to ISIS — several reports have suggested it’s more likely to be connected to the Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula — but the cyber-attack appears to be in response to the Charlie Hebdo shootings.
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Anonymous vows to avenge victims with cyber-war on jihadists
Anonymous, the online "hacktivist" collective, has announced that it will avenge the attack on Charlie Hebdo by rendering jihadist websites inaccessible. The group published a video on YouTube through its Anonymous Belgique channel, as well as a statement posted on Pastebin.
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Anonymous blocks jihadist website in retaliation for Charlie Hebdo attack
Hackers claiming to be with the group Anonymous say they have hacked a jihadist website in retaliation for the terror attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The website ansar-alhaqq.net, a French jihadist site, currently redirects to Duck Duck Go, a search engine. Hackers using the Twitter handle @OpCharlieHebdo claimed responsibility.
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Hack-Proof Smart Keyboard Learns How You Type, Won’t Work for Anyone Else
Scientists have developed a new keyboard that can protect your computer from direct hacking. The intelligent keyboard (IKB) uses keystroke dynamics to identify users by the way they type, according to the journal ASC Nano. By sensing typing patterns such as the speed at which a user types and the amount of pressure applied to the keys, the keyboard can accurately distinguish one user from another and prevent unauthorized users from accessing a computer.
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Journalist linked to Anonymous gets five years in prison
A journalist also known as an informal spokesman for the hacker group Anonymous was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday in a case which rallied activists for press freedom, his supporters said.
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Barrett Brown sentenced to 63 months for 'merely linking to hacked material'
In a rebuke to a legion of online supporters and what the journalist and one-time member of Anonymous called a “dangerous precedent”, Barrett Brown was sentenced to 63 months in prison by a federal judge in Dallas on Thursday. Brown’s backers from across the web had hoped he would be able to walk free with his 31 months of time served for what they insist was “merely linking to hacked material”. But the 33-year-old...
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Rumor: Joystiq closing shop
'AOL is likely to shutter' Joystiq, reports Recode. Hey, wait a minute... that's us! Well, we may as well handle this the same way we've been covering the video game industry for ten years. "We do not comment on rumor and speculation," one staffer told us, wishing to remain anonymous, preparing for their lucrative PR career. Others are still trying to figure out next steps. Another anonymous staffer said, "We're still working until we can't."
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Ello Kicks Off 'NSFW Month' Ahead of Total Redesign
The past year has seen one online censorship snafu after another, from Reddit taking wavering stances on its moderation policies to Wikipedia targeting feminists instead of their assailants. And when major sites act like corporate greed-machines, you can bet that Ello will come out swinging. This month, Ello’s going to be waving the flag for porn, smut, erotic art, whatever falls under the “NSFW” umbrella.
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Deconstructing the method to Nintendo's madness
It's easy to hate on Nintendo. With the Wii U, the company played right into negative consumer expectations by releasing a product derided for its kid-friendly appeal, Fisher-Price toy-like looks, less-than-bleeding-edge silicon, confusing branding and (initially) clunky operating system. The message to the market at the system's launch seemed clear: The gaming giant had fallen behind the times. But that's not quite the truth.
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Internet Memes And 'The Right To Be Forgotten'
"Scumbag Steve," "Overly Attached Girlfriend," "Bad Luck Brian." All these Internet celebrities have one thing in common: They didn't intend to become famous. Their pictures just happened to go viral. Is nothing off-limits? That's something Kyra Pringle has been asking herself in the past couple of days. The South Carolina resident recently found out her 2-year-old daughter Mariah's birthday pictures were being shared online by thousands.
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