Authorities in the United States have put in an official request to extradite Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and the three other suspects in the “Mega Conspiracy.” While the request doesn’t come as a surprise, the prosecutors waited till the official deadline last Friday before filing the paperwork. It will take a while before the fate of the accused is decided, as the first extradition... more »

Ubisoft on Monday revealed that the next installment to its blockbuster "Assassin's Creed" videogame franchise will be set in the US colonies during the American Revolution."Assassin's Creed III" will be released on October 30 and star a new hero in a series of games that moves from one generation to another as players follow the ancestry of a fictional assassin to solve a perilous modern-day... more »

A Russian hacker dramatically demonstrated one of the most common security weaknesses in the Ruby on Rails web application language. By doing so, he took full control of the databases GitHub uses to distribute Linux and thousands of other open-source software packages.Egor Homakov exploited what's known as a mass assignment vulnerability in GitHub to gain administrator access to the Ruby on... more »

It's been predicted for many months now that Google's Chrome browser would soon overtake Firefox in terms of market share, but that still hasn't happened--at least not according to Net Applications. In fact, the researcher recently published data suggesting that Chrome is actually on a gradual decline while Firefox is on a slow rise. Whereas in January Chrome accounted for 18.94 percent,... more »

The American company behind social games like FarmVille and CityVille is setting up its own gaming service. It means people will be able to play on a platform outside Facebook, Google+ and Myspace. Zynga makes its money through advertising and from the sale of virtual items such as tools paid for with real cash. Most of the company's games have to be played through Facebook, which... more »

Law enforcement authorities arrested 25 individuals in Spain, Argentina, Colombia and Chile for online attacks, which spurred revenge attacks against Interpol for coordinating the investigation. Law enforcement authorities arrested 25 alleged members of the Anonymous hacktivist collective as part of an international operation, according to Interpol. The operation began in mid-February... more »

Today marks the end of an era for The Pirate Bay. The largest torrent site on the Internet has just removed all popular torrent files and made the switch to magnet links. The Pirate Bay team believes the move is needed to make the site future proof, and is confident that it won’t cause much trouble among users. “Just click the red button instead of the green one and all will be fine,” they... more »