The Coming War on General Computation by Cory Doctorow doctorow@craphound.comPresented at 28C3 transcript attribution by Joshua Wise joshua@joshuawise.com.So, when I speak in places where the first language of the nation is not English, there is a disclaimer and an apology, because I’m one of nature’s fast talkers. When I was at the United Nations at [...]
Lulz Secuirty is a name given to a loosely tied together group of hackers that operate to bring their form of Web justice to the Internet. This weekend they hacked into the US Senate website for fun and posted files online.The Senate claims that the security of staff had not been compromised but the attack [...]
“If you shut down our power, maybe we will put a missile down one of your smokestacks” (source – unnamed military official). This quote was printed in the Wall Street Journal and has been a hot topic of debate after the Pentagon published their first formal cyber strategy document. In this document the U.S. military
Once again a hacker group has stolen over one million passwords, email addresses and other information from the Sony network. This time the hacker group Lulz Security is behind the attack and seems to be motivated by exposing the security flaws in the Sony network.The story can be followed over on twitter
Here at Web and Rank we have emphasised the importance of protecting your online privacy over and over again. Software developers have created some pretty dandy applications that can help to protect your private data, but nothing is quite as good as good ol’ common sense.Below are some nifty tricks to add an extra layer
Weekly we post significant cartoon news developments focus and affecting the Internet and World Wide Web like web rank industry and international social media business.This is a good news but bad for you. A“Yea nice one I’m definitely going to tweet this”, B “You should like, start a BLOG or something”Tweeting is the future
In an Internet Cafe tucked away in a sweaty corner of Lagos a young Nigerian man thinks up ways to scam ‘the white man’ out of thousands of dollars. The word Nigeria in the world of tech has become synonymous with ‘scam’, the question is why? Jobs and the lack of is the number one [...]
iPhone owners can be a bit annoying sometimes. Drawn by my good friend Maxwell Paternoster, this guy has some crazy genius and I had to post his work here. Max is an artist, musician and general man about town. Catch his work at www.maxwellp.co.uk or www.maxwell-p.blogspot.com .A good online art show boutique.
Apple has responded to claims that it’s secretly recording location data by releasing a software update to combat the problem.Over the last few months the blogs have been alive with the talk off tracking bugs in our smartphones. iPads and iPhones came under particular fire after security researchers found a hidden file on the devices
Through SEO poisoning attacks and Facebook adware, cyber criminals can take advantage of Osama bin Laden’s death. These types of attacks, as reported by Kaspersky Lab, are spreading like wild fire across the Web.The cyber criminals are a clever bunch and they know exactly how to use big news in their favour.
