Anonymous

A social media editor for the Reuters news service today stands indicted for allegedly helping the loose affiliation of computer hackers that calls itself Anonymous carry out attacks against websites controlled by the Tribune media company. You can read the original indictment below. But federal...

One of the problems with games that require an always on internet connection is that if your net is giving you problems, or there is a problem with the game’s server, you can’t play. Games such as Diablo 3, and recently SimCity, have faced such problems and in the case of SimCity, many gamers are...

Amazon's Mechanical Turk allows users to sign up for quick, low paying, online-based jobs like writing with photo captions, allowing other large Web companies including Twitter to crowdsouce the labor they don't want to have their full-time staff doing. But now a new study has found that while many...

AngelList has changed the investment landscape by creating an online space where entrepreneurs can connect with the investors. Now a site called Exitround may do the same at what, for many startups, is the other end of the process, offering a marketplace where small, seed-funded companies that are...

An unsubstantiated new report claimed on Monday that Microsoft's next Xbox console will in fact not house a Blu-ray player inside. The new Xbox, expected to be unveiled this year by Microsoft, has alternately been referred to as the "Xbox 720" and its reported codename, "Durango." Previous reports...

Malaysia vs. Philippines dispute over Borneo barney goes online, Anons hose it down Anonymous has assumed the unlikely role of peacemaker in a growing dispute between Malaysian and Filipino hacktivists that has seen scores of web sites on both sides defaced over a territorial tussle.…

Anonymous has released 14GB of data it acquired about Bank of America, Thomson Reuters, ClearForest, Bloomberg, and TEKSystems, an intelligence firm. It did this via a press release on the website Par-AnoIA, including a link to the hacked data and a rundown of the relevant details for those who...

Hacktivist group says 14GB of data includes evidence Bank of America engaged in an effort to "spy and collect information on private citizens." [Read more]

Hackivists enraged by suggestion financial giant snooped on them Miscreants affiliated with hacking collective Anonymous have dumped online a huge cache of data supposedly lifted from insecure systems at a Bank of America contractor.…

Aurich Lawson When the couple we'll call the Smiths received a letter from their ISP—one saying they were being threatened with a copyright lawsuit—they were scared. The middle-aged immigrant couple moved to the United States from Eastern Europe more than a decade ago. Both have advanced degrees,...