US and Japan authorities probe Bitcoin attacks as “leak” blogger claims...
Bitcoin watchers! Grab your popcorn and enjoy: As the MtGox car crash plays out in slow motion, there have been a few interesting new developments. First off, the Japanese authorities are investigating...
View ArticleMtGox CEO faces likely US arrest as legal woes mount over failed bitcoin...
A federal judge this month ordered Mark Karpeles to appear in Dallas on April 17 to explain how his company, the bankrupt bitcoin exchange MtGox, lost at least $400 million worth of customer deposits....
View ArticleProminent Muslim-Americans came under NSA and FBI surveillance, report claims
The NSA and FBI spied on prominent Muslim-Americans and people of Muslim-American heritage with no direct link to terrorism or espionage, according to a fairly explosive piece in The Intercept. The...
View ArticleNSA shares metadata with many other agencies using “Google-like” ICREACH...
The latest leak coming from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s trove involves a “Google-like” search engine for communications metadata called ICREACH. The program was described in a Monday article in...
View ArticleRussian hackers reportedly attacked JPMorgan, other big American banks
JPMorgan Chase and four other big U.S. banks were hit by hackers earlier this month. The perps siphoned off customer and employee data, according to Bloomberg citing an unnamed U.S. official. A...
View ArticleWhy 4Chan created a copyright shield in the wake of the Apple leak
4Chan, a popular website whose members were among the first to share naked celebrity photos stolen from Apple accounts, has just put in place a set of legal measures that publishers use to deflect...
View ArticleAre “warrant canaries” legal? Twitter wants to save tech’s warning signal of...
Tech companies from Apple to Tumblr, faced with a growing number of secret orders from the government, have resorted to a clever legal tactic known as a warrant canary: the “canary,” popularized by...
View ArticleUS lawmaker pushes back against FBI backdoor calls
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has introduced a bill that would stymie almost any attempt by a government agency to force device manufacturers and app developers to install backdoors for surveillance...
View ArticleFBI: Sony hack was North Korea’s work
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has officially pointed to North Korea as the culprit behind the hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment — an incident that was allegedly connected with a...
View ArticleCloud options mean decisions, decisions for IT buyers
Much has been written about cloud consolidation, with M&A roiling the cloudscape over the past few months: Cisco bought Metacloud, EMC bought Cloudscaling, HP snapped up Eucalyptus. Despite all...
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