Stratfor hack demonstrates new strain of censorship
January 11, 2012
Hacking technology has become so accessible, and social network-based rabble rousing so prevalent, that hacktivists espousing confused motives can lash out indiscriminately — and cause crushing damage.
That’s the upshot of the Christmas Eve Stratfor.com escapade widely attributed to members of the Anonymous hacking collective. The online global affairs publication relaunched its website today, three weeks after hacktivists posted sensitive data for 50,000 Stratfor subscribers, then shut …More
2011: Year of the hacktivists
January 10, 2012
Stratfor.com remains inoperative nearly three weeks after a Christmas Eve hacktivist break-in. To add insult to injury, a prankster has begun sending bogus e-mail messages to the online publication’s subscribers asking them to rate the company’s response to the breach, according to Sophos’ analyst Chet Wiesniewski.
The attack on Strategic Forecasting — which supplies its subscribers with independent analysis on global affairs — capped an unprecedented year for …More
Facebook fails to provide clear answers on Web tracking
January 9, 2012
Reps. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Joe Barton, R-Tex., on Monday lashed out at Facebook for failing to clearly explain how — and why — the social networking giant systematically compiles tracking data on its 800 million members, and millions more non-members, as LastWatchdog disclosed in this page-one cover story.
Markey and Barton were left unsatisfied by this six-page explanation they recently received from Erin …More
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