WannaCry Ransomware Is Self-Inflicted and Entirely Predictable
As the situation regarding the WannaCry ransomware evolves, the security nightmare should be raising some important questions.
Category Archives: Security
Australian Goverment Mulls Allowing Authorities to Hack Your Computer
There’s some rather scary news coming from Australia right now. The Australian government is considering sweeping new surveillance powers which includes the surveillance of social networking sites and data retention. While that isn’t exactly novel, buried in the proposal is a provision that would allow police to hack your computer for the purposes of gathering […]
Claim: Encrypted Chat Developer Detained, Interrogated at US Border
A developer for encrypted chat application “Cryptocat” has recently claimed that he was detained and interrogated at the US border. Apparently, border guards took his passport and interrogated him about the application, demanding to know “which algorithms Cryptocat used and about its censorship resistance.”
Breaking News: The Pirate Bay DDOS Attacker Revealed
We’ve been following the news of the DDOS attack on Swedish BitTorrent website The Pirate Bay and Wikileaks. Now, ZeroPaid has finally learned who was behind the attack.
Anonymous Hacks myBART.gov, Database Exposed
What started as a group of people wanting to protest has become an all out war over censorship. After earlier threats were made by Anonymous, it appears as though Anonymous did make good on their threat to target BART.
Anonymous Threatens to ‘Remove’ BART Over Censorship Fiasco
On Friday, we reported on the chilling story of BART shutting down cell phone services in an effort to avert a protest. The move created quite a stir and now, Anonymous, is threatening to take action.
UK PM Wants to “Stop People from Communicating” on Social Media
The riots in Britain has certainly been a story major media outlets around the world have been following closely, but recent comments by British Prime Minister David Cameron on the riots have certainly raised a few eyebrows recently. Some people are saying that the comments insinuate that the Prime Minister wants to, in essence, censor […]
Anonymous Dumps Nearly 5GB of Brazilian Government Data to ThePirateBay
The quantity is large, but that might be what you would expect for a data dump with such large claims. Anonymous has posted a 4.73GB archive to BitTorrent filesharing website ThePirateBay claiming to expose corruption between the FBI, Brazilian ISPs and the government of Brazil.
The Face That Launched Anonymous’ War on PayPal
PayPal may be convenient for some in the online world, but Anonymous doesn’t see anything convenient about some of its recent activities. There’s now seemingly a full-scale war between the company and the collective and neither side is backing down.
Load Gearing Up for Massive 8GB Multinational Data Dump
The hacking community has taken notice to another hacker who claims to have internal documents on several governments from around the world including the US, Russia and several European countries. To prove it, the hacker released a small set of “preview” leaks which appear to be internal documents of embassies and government minister offices.
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