17th of May 2013 10:44 GMT
While the Syrian government is busy shutting down the Internet in the country when it suits it, it's also busy fighting a war online as well. Granted, the only things getting hurt are Twitter accounts, but the Syrian Electronic Army has been busy hacking sites and taking over Twitter accounts, with rather elab...
17th of May 2013 04:01 GMT
Security firm F-Secure reports on the discovery of a new piece of Mac malware which takes screenshots and dumps them into a folder on the computer, then sends them to shady servers with unregistered domains. The “Macs.app” malware uses a valid Apple ID (assigned to a certain Rajender Kumar) and dumps sai...
16th of May 2013 11:14 GMT
Four men associated with the LulzSec hacker group have been sentenced by a British court. All received prison terms, though Mustafa al-Bassam, who was a minor at the time, got a suspended sentence. Others will only serve a portion of their sentence in prison. Jake Davis, known as Topiary in the group, who acted as t...
16th of May 2013 04:29 GMT
There are now more details on the US investigation into Mt. Gox which resulted in the government freezing accounts associated with the BitCoin exchange and its owner, Mark Karpeles. Dwolla, a payments company, revealed that the government ordered a freeze on any account associated with Mt. Gox, but could not provid...
15th of May 2013 05:04 GMT
Although it is no longer actively developed, Mozilla Thunderbird continues to receive updates and the most recent one, as expected, benefited from a small number of fixes. Among the most significant security issues (labeled “critical”) fixed in this release are memory corruption problems identified using...