Open letter on SOPA from Google co-founder Sergey Brin; Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey; PayPal co-founder Elon Musk; Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, among others will run as a newspaper ad.
Silicon Valley execs blast SOPA in open letter
Letter opposing the Stop Online Piracy Act, which will run as a newspaper ad, is signed by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, PayPal co-founder Elon Musk and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, among others.
Botnet rentals reveal the darker side of the cloud
Cloud computing isn’t just opening up new opportunities for legitimate organizations worldwide; it’s also proving a potential boon for cybercriminals as it inexpensively and conveniently puts disposal powerful computing resources at their fingertips, w…
Alleged ‘Anonymous 14′ plead innocent to PayPal DDoS
Fourteen individuals believed to be part of the hacktivist group Anonymous pleaded innocent on Thursday in federal court in San Jose, Calif to charges of participating in an attack against PayPal.
The defendants, mostly twenty-somethings who live in …
Anonymous Roars Back With 3GB Leak of Texas Police Chief Emails
Anonymous, after a relatively large period of doing nothing, are back with a vengeance. Even without their (arrested) de facto leader Topiary, they’ve punched Texan law enforcement squarely in their gut: a giant email leak, internal documents, addresse…
70% of Hongkongers use same password for multiple accounts
About 70 percent of Hongkers use the same password for an average of seven online accounts, said City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and PayPal Hong Kong Tuesday when unveiling results of the Online payment Security Survey.
According to the two organi…
PayPal hands over 1,000 Anonymous IP addresses to the FBI
Remember last year when PayPal was attacked by Anonymous after it froze Wikileaks’ account? Well, it looks like PayPal has finally decided to strike back against the hacking coalition.
Anonymous, LulzSec go legit with PayPal boycott
Free the DDoS fourteen! Hm. Bored now, need more lulz
Hactivist collective Anonymous has called for a boycott of PayPal.…Free Whitepaper: Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers
