hacking – Techcitement*

When Will The Watch Dogs Be Let Out?

Tim Twelves — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:29:34 +0000

One of the more eagerly anticipated games of 2013 2014 is UbiSoft’s open-world hacking game Watch Dogs. Originally slated for a November 2013 release for “all home consoles” (including the Wii-U), it will now be released on May 27, 2014. A William Gibson novel made into bytes, it’s set in a futuristic Chicago where every […]

Japan Pushes Ban What You Can’t Understand Policy With Tor

Tom Wyrick — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:30:05 +0000

A recent report from The Mainichi claims Japan’s National Police Agency (roughly equivalent to the FBI in the United States) urges ISPs to block internet connections for users found abusing Tor (The Onion Router) clients. Tor’s purpose is to create secure, anonymous connections to internet sites by splitting up the data stream and routing it […]

CISPA Passed This Week Against Objections, Pleas, And Rationality

Tim Twelves — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:00:08 +0000

I guess after being paid craploads of taxpayer money ($174,000 annually), Senators need to show something for it, given they have one of the laxest schedules imaginable. Some of the bills that have gone through the house in the last week or two have included rolling back insider trading rules, making Congress immune to prosecution, […]

When Bad Things Happen To Awful People: Anonymous Takes On Westboro Baptist Church

Tim Twelves — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:20:59 +0000

In the immediate wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, it didn’t take long for the vermin to come crawling out of the woodwork, to point fingers at invisible enemies. The New York Post and Fox News were immediately inflating body counts, their reporters blaming and harassing Saudi students and their friends. Pundits elsewhere were blaming […]

The Entirety Of The Internet As One Image

Justin Davis — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:00:35 +0000

You, and most of the planet, have been hacked. Thankfully, instead of stealing your identity or files off of your computer, the hacker’s main goal was to define a visual representation of what the internet looks like as people log on and off of it. By scanning the IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4), the anonymous […]

Biggest Cyber-attack In History Slows Down Internet Worldwide

Justin Davis — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:24:43 +0000

If you’ve noticed a perceptible slowdown in internet speeds lately, that may not just be your local internet provider trying to cap your download speeds. A massive attack on anti-spam guardian, Spamhaus, has had major repercussions on the rest of the internet. Spamhaus, based out of London and Geneva, tracks spam back to its sources […]

11 Things To Know About The Chinese Hacking Scandal

Tim Twelves — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:00:40 +0000

Some of us wonder about the future. We wonder what the future would be like if written by our favorite authors: William Gibson, Iain Banks, Jules Verne. The more cautious and knowledgeable warn against living in the worlds of Clive Barker, Jeff Noon, and Stephen King. Others argue about the dangers of Aldous Huxley and […]

HackRF: One Radio To Rule Them All

M. Gilden — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:30:09 +0000

Many years ago, I was challenged by a coworker to come up with a way to open a garage door with a cellular phone. My proposed solution involved a computer, an internet connection and an X10 home automation device. A simple phone app could send a signal to the computer’s IP that would tell the […]

Hacker Claims to Have Pilfered Over 6.5 Million LinkedIn Passwords

Mordechai Osdoby — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:27:03 +0000

Back before we even had the term social network, LinkedIn debuted with their online personal networking solution. Targeting people who wanted to build work connections, I distinctly recall signing up for it and thinking “and now what?” I still use my account, but only because the tool I use to update my Twitter and Facebook […]

Electronic Frontier Foundation Seeks To Widen DMCA And Modify Everything

Jeremy Goldstone — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:16:43 +0000

Remember July of last year, when the U.S. Copyright Office said it was totally cool for you to jailbreak your iPhone and there wasn’t squat Apple could do about it? It’s time for the rest of the tech industry to shake in their collective boots, because the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the group that was at […]