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On Thursday, Twitter announced plans to restrict tweets in certain countries. By Friday, some clever folks already figured out an incredibly simple way to circumvent the service's censorship. Anna Haim of The Next Web explains that Twitter's own Help Center actually reveals the trick. Here's how it all works. Since content is going to be blocked on a country-by-country basis, Twitter has to...
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You hear the word "monopoly" thrown around a lot these days, especially about Google and Apple. After Google's bid to acquire Motorola, the integration of Google+ signals in Google Search and the announcement of Google's consolidation of privacy policies and data gathering across Google services, critics have been saying Google has a monopoly in the search market. Consumer Watchdog, referring...
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Symantec has confirmed that the hacker group Anonymous stole source code from the 2006 versions of several Norton security products and the pcAnywhere remote access tool. Although Symantec says the theft actually occurred in 2006, the issue did not come to light until this month when hackers related to Anonymous said they had the source code and would release it publicly. Users of the...
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Microsoft said it suspects a former employee of an antivirus software firm was behind the Kelihos botnet attacks. Russian citizen Andrey Sabelnikov "wrote and/or participated in creating" the harmful software which infected thousands of machines, Microsoft said. Kelihos was used for sending out spam and spreading malware until it was "neutralised" in September 2011. In a blog posting,...
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If you clicked a link distributed by Anonymous yesterday, you may have unwittingly helped the online activists in their attacks against U.S. government and entertainment industry sites that were organized to protest proposed antipiracy legislation. Anonymous has launched distributed denial-of-service attacks, designed to shut down Web sites, against government and corporate sites in the...
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If you attempt to access Uploaded.to from a US IP address, however, you’re greeted with the message that “Our service is currently unavailable in your country. Sorry about that.” Neither site has made any public announcement of the change in services, leading to speculation that the decision to curtail file sharing was a sudden reaction to the shock arrest of MegaUpload CEO Kim Dotcom and...
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In one of the U.S. government's largest anti-piracy crackdowns ever, federal agents on Thursday arrested the leaders of and shut down Megaupload.com, a popular hub for illegal media downloads. Hours later, Megaupload's fans turned the table on the feds. "Hacktivist" collective Anonymous said it set its sights on the U.S. Department of Justice and apparently knocked the agency's website...
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