Diaspora social network co-founder dies at age 22
Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the 22-year-old co-founder of privacy-focused social network <a href="http://diasporafoundation.org/">Diaspora</a>, has died in San Francisco.
Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the 22-year-old co-founder of privacy-focused social network <a href="http://diasporafoundation.org/">Diaspora</a>, has died in San Francisco.
Whistleblower site WikiLeaks has temporarily suspended operations because of financial constraints.
A coalition of technology trade groups today joined the growing chorus of voices opposing a recently filed <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221232/New_bill_would_target_websites_enabling_copyright_infringement">anti-piracy bill</a> that they contend is far too heavy-handed.
Wikileaks is set to stop publishing classified files, following a "blockade" by US finance companies.
Whistleblower Web site Wikileaks today announced that it has temporarily suspended operations due to financial constraints.
PayPal has unveiled a mobile payment initiative for shoppers that doesn't require near-field communication (NFC) technology inside smartphones.
In a defiant statement addressed largely at FBI director Steve Chabinsky, members of the Anonymous and LulzSec hacktivist groups vowed to continue with their hacking campaigns and dared law enforcement to try and stop them.
The FBI said this afternoon that it had arrested a total of fourteen individuals thought to belong to the Anonymous hacking group for their alleged participation in a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) against PayPal last year.
You didn't think PayPal was going to let Google Wallet have the NFC mobile payment market all to itself, did you?
Isis, a joint venture of three U.S. wireless carriers, on Tuesday announced that it's planning a pilot of smartphone-based mobile wallet technology in Salt Lake City in 2012.
A new phishing scam that targets bank and PayPal passwords and other consumer data that criminals use to loot private accounts is designed to beat security built in to Firefox and Chrome Web browsers.
Stung by a high-profile denial-of-service attack in December, PayPal's CISO says application layer attacks remain a major threat to businesses in general, which need better defenses and actual testing of the DDoS tools they have.
Apple yesterday pulled an iPhone app from the App Store that let users read secret U.S. diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks and follow the controversial organization's Twitter feed.
Bank of America has joined the growing list of financial and technology companies that have cut off services to WikiLeaks, a move that comes amid speculation that the whistleblower site is preparing to release information about the bank.
The activists behind Operation Payback have come up with a new way to annoy corporations that have severed their ties with WikiLeaks: bombard them with faxes.