As the FBI took down the file sharing site MegaUpload, arresting its operators for criminal copyright infringement, hacktivists Anonymous fought back with their largest, most sophisticated attack yet. Within minutes of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announcing MegaUpload’s takedown, the hacker-group took down the websites of the DOJ, the Recording Industry Association of America [...]

Almost a third of the global population now visits the 555 million websites on the internet according to Pingdom. The traffic site Pingdom found in their annual research that the number of internet users has jumped from a mere 360 million at the end of 2000 and now accounts for 30 per cent of the [...]

Big data and virtualisation are driving growth for Linux in enterprise, according to the latest survey from the Linux Foundation. ‘Linux Adoption and Trends 2012: A Survey of Enterprise and End Users’ from the Linux Foundation and the Yeoman Group, revealed that the two emerging trends are driving the growth of the technology. The survey [...]

Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you will have heard the murmurs (and more increasingly the shouts) about the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. Today thousands of sites are taking part in a #SOPABlackout by taking their sites down, censoring them or generally showing their opposition to the Act which, they say, [...]

The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, last night announced that Wikipedia will join the public uprising against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Wales announced on Twitter that Wikipedia will begin a 24-hour blackout of the English Wikipedia site, which will provide access only to pages explaining the Act and urging people to contact their [...]

A hacker who goes by the name of ‘Yama Tough’ has threatened to release the full source code for Symantec Corp’s flagship Norton Antivirus software this week. “This coming Tuesday behold the full Norton Antivirus 1,7Gb src, the rest will follow,” Yama Tough posted via Twitter. It is claimed that the hack is related to [...]

Facebook is set to reach 1 billion users by the end of 2012, according to analytics firm iCrossing. iCrossing has extrapolated data announced at Facebook’s F8 conference in September and predict that the site will reach the milestone as soon as August 12 this year. A population of 1 billion Facebook users amounts to three [...]

Today marks the day that the internet will change forever as ICANN launches the new gTLDs. No longer will we simply see .com, .net, .org or the 19 other current gTLDs, instead the internet world will now be flooded with the likes of .news, .cocacola, .football and .anyotherwordthatismorethan2characterslong. To register a new gTLD will cost [...]

As mentioned in January’s advance notification post this month’s security bulletin releases are now confirmed to contain 7 bulletins addressing 8 vulnerabilities. The following table shows affected software by bulletin and the likelihood of an Operating System restart being required and the services this may affect: Bulletin ID Bulletin Title and Executive Summary Maximum Severity Rating and Vulnerability [...]

Hactivists have published more than 450 email addresses of British Military staff and NATO officials after cracking into US and UK intelligence computers. The hacktivist cell, allegedly in allegiance with Anonymous, obtained thousands of British email addresses and encrypted passwords, including those of defence, MI6 intelligence and the police as well as politicians and NATO [...]