LulzSec hackers jailed for string of sophisticated cyber-attacks
Four men who caused millions of pounds of damage in 2011 get sentences of up to 32 months Some of the longest ever jail sentences for hacking have been handed down to four British members of the international computer hackers' gang LulzSec who masterminded a string of sophisticated cyber-attacks on major global institutions from their bedrooms. The four bragged of being 'gods' and caused millions of pounds of damage in a three-month spree in 2011. The 32-month and 30-month sentences for, r
Outrageous hotel perks for pets
Gunny, a devoted Peninsula Beverly Hills guest, often visits the posh hotel, and the staff joyously greets him as he strides along the lobby's marble floor. Retiring to his room, Gunny finds a specially monogrammed towel beside his bed and sits down to a grilled New York sirloin and scrambled eggs with aged Tillamook cheddar on bone china. And when he needs styling, the hotel's Rolls Royce shuttles him to the salon. All pretty normal for a 5-star hotel -- except Gunny is a golden retriever.
Kretsinger, Sony hacker Recursion, jailed for year
A 25-year-old man known online as Recursion has been sentenced to a year in jail for hacking Sony Pictures Entertainment. After his jail term, Kretsinger will be required to do 1,000 hours of community service, a Los Angeles judge ruled. Sony said the hack caused more than $600,000 (£392,000) in damage. Not to be confused with the attack on Sony's PlayStation Network, the Sony Pictures hack in July 2011 involved breaching the company's website and accessing a database of customers' names,
Saiba como vender os produtos mais vendidos da Internet
Muitos são os produtos vendidos na internet, e também os meios de trabalhar em casa ganhando seu dinheiro pela internet, uma delas é através de uma loja virtual, que dependendo do segmento pode render bons lucros. Os dois produtos que mais são vendidos na web são livros e produtos de informática, como produtos de informática são produt
Bêbado cai ao escalar poste com fios de alta tensão na China: Veja o vídeo
Um homem aparentemente bêbado escalou um poste de 9 metros de altura, com fios de alta tensão, e ficou pendurado neles,antes de cair em um colchão, informou a imprensa estatal nesta terça-feira (2).
O homem, completamente alheio ao risco, movia-se calmamente pelos cabos no centro da cidade de Linfen, na província de Shanxi, no incidente ocorr
Popeye humano é alérgico a espinafre
Moustafa Ismail foi, finalmente, reconhecido pelo Guinness - Livro dos Recordes como o dono dos maiores bíceps do mundo. Mas, o que difere o Popeye humano do personagem do desenho é que: o real tem alergia a espinafre. Saiba mais aqui! Você já viu aqui a história de Moustafa 'Big Mo' Ismail, o Popeye humano. Moustafa, 24, tem os maiores b
How Much Money Is the Zombie Meme Worth?
With the season three finale of The Walking Dead on Sunday night, we know you're looking for your next zombie fill to chew on until World War Z hits theaters.
Fear not, for zombies are here to stay. From TV series and movies to video games and books, those groaning, bloodied masses know how to rake in the cash, with a $5.74 billion contribution
The Pirate Bay Moves Servers to the U.S., Becomes Freedom Bay
After trying its luck to North Korea, the world's largest BitTorrent tracker, The Pirate Bay, has announced it has moved its servers to the U.S.
'We have worked closely with the awesome american government to establish a strong military graded server park that will endure any nuclear attacks that Kim Jong Un and his evil allies will send at US,'
Cyberbunker's Sven Kamphuis says he is victim of conspiracy over Spamhaus attack
Sven Kamphuis, a Dutch internet operator, has been accused by security experts
of mounting a wave of attacks on a scale that only governments were thought
capable of conducting. It is alleged he engineered a vast flood of data which targeted a Swiss-based
internet agency, Spamhaus, responsible for maintaining a catalogue of
comp
As últimas mulheres que cobram para chorar em Taiwan
Liu cobra o equivalente a R$ 1.200 por cada sessão de choro em funerais em Taiwan Chorar por vontade própria não é tarefa fácil. Mas é o que faz todos dias Liu Jun-Lin. Ela é a carpideira mais famosa de Taiwan e todos os dias se põe aos prantos em velórios de gente que nunca viu. Já são poucas as mulheres que choram para ganhar a vi
Apparently This Matters: Giant elephant bird egg
When people come to my house for the first time there exists only a handful of personal items worth showing off as part of the tour. Mind you, it's a rather short and uninspiring tour. The gift shop basically consists of pudding. And I'm usually not wearing pants. Nevertheless, if one does take a quick walk-about of the Bellini manor, the firs
Maior ataque cibernético da História atinge internet em todo o mundo
Ataque cibernético causou lentidão na internet nesta quarta-feira A internet ficou mais lenta ao redor do mundo nesta quarta-feira devido ao que especialistas em segurança chamaram de maior ciberataque da História. Uma briga entre um grupo que luta contra o avanço do spam e uma empresa que abriga sites deflagrou ataques cibernéticos que
Massive cyberattack hits Internet users
(CNN) -- Internet users around the globe were facing slowed down service thanks to what's being called the biggest cyberattack in history. The prolonged denial-of-service assault is targeting The Spamhaus Project, a European spam-fighting group that has gone after CyberBunker, a data-storage company that offers to host any content 'except child
Global internet slows after 'biggest attack in history'
The internet around the world has been slowed down in what security experts are describing as the biggest cyber-attack in history. A row between a spam-fighting group and hosting firm has sparked retaliation attacks flooding core infrastructure. It is having an impact on widely used services like Netflix - and experts worry it could escalate t
North Korea says it is cutting off a military hotline with the South
Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea (CNN) -- North Korea said Wednesday it was cutting off a key military hotline with South Korea amid high tensions between the two sides. 'Under the situation where a war may break out any moment, there is no need to keep north-south military communications,' the head of a North Korean delegation told the South by
Musicians accused of 'buying virtual fans' on YouTube
British Broadcasting CorporationHome Accessibility links We are always looking to improve the site and your opinions count. Do you have a few minutes to tell us what you think about this site? Page last updated at 06:03 GMT, Monday, 18 March 2013 Some music artists are buying social networking statistics to get into the charts, a Newsbeat investigation has found. The statistics, which can be bought, include YouTube views, Twitter followers and Facebook likes. Newsbeat has found that you can buy 10,000 YouTube views for as little as £30...
Internet pioneers win engineering prize
Pioneers of the internet are the first recipients of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. Sir Tim Berners Lee, Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, Louis Pouzin and Marc Andreessen will share the £1m award. The citation panel said the five men had all contributed to the revolution in communications that has taken place in recent decades. The UK government initiated the QE Prize as a companion to the Nobels to raise the profile of engineering. It is endowed by industry and administered by an independent trust chaired by Lord Browne, a former chief executive of BP. The award was announced at
CHANGE LIKE ON FACEBOOK NATURALLY
I have news for all who have a fan page on Facebook and want to make the same disclosure. On Tuesday launched a page for Facebook users who want to meet and exchange 'LIKE' freely and without charge, to treat the site http://www.duasrosas.com.br/ put the public service provision. So if you want to exchange 'LIKE' on Facebook is more open
Os maiorais da tecnologia: Saiba como eles gastam seus bilhões de dólares
(Duasrosas) - Com o título de 'Os Maiorais da Tecnologia' selecionamos as mais destacadas personalidades, não pela fortuna acumulada, mas pelas suas influências e contribuições para nosso atual mundo tecnológico e, porque não futurista também. Estas personalidades serão vistas por um out
China tightens internet controls
The rules signal that the new leadership headed by Communist Party chief Xi Jinping will continue muzzling the often scathing, raucous online chatter in a country where the Internet offers a rare opportunity for debate. The new regulations, announced by the official Xinhua news agency, also require Internet users to register with
Tech Giants Brace for More Scrutiny From Regulators
Nadine Wolf demonstrated against online piracy legislation a year ago in New York. The measures were defeated. Silicon Valley lobbied hard in Washington in 2012, and despite some friction with regulators, fared fairly well. In 2013, though, government scrutiny is likely to grow. And with this scrutiny will come even greater efforts by the
The sexting wars: The two Stanford students set to make millions out of people texting dirty pictures to each other
When 21 year old Stanford University student Evan Spiegel stood up in a Stanford product design class in April 2011 to present an idea for his final project, it was derided by his classmates as a 'terrible idea'.
It was a mobile phone app designed to allow 'self destructing' pictures that would disappear, without a trace, after a few
Tweeting really IS emotional: Researchers find birds experience musical feelings in the same way as humans
A bird listening to birdsong may experience some of the same emotions as a human listening to music, researchers believe. A new study of white-throated sparrows found the same area of the bird's brain was triggered when female birds listened to male birdsong when there were in a breeding state. However, male birds listening to another
Outmaneuvered at Their Own Game, Antivirus Makers Struggle to Adapt
Amichai Shulman, the chief technology officer at Imperva. The data security firm recently found that antivirus software programs perform poorly against new viruses. The antivirus industry has a dirty little secret: its products are often not very good at stopping viruses. Security experts at the Symantec Security Operation Center in
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