Talk about mixed messages: when Aereo first began offering consumers a way to get free network TV over the internet — on any device and on demand — CBS CEO Les Moonves said last year that the service wasn't causing him any loss of sleep. Fast forward to yesterday and executives from News Corp...
Taking Fox to cable could be a logistical and legal nightmare
Herbalife, the $8 billion multi-level marketing company that’s been the target of pyramid scheme accusations from one of Wall Street’s most prominent hedge fund managers, had its stock halted amid questions about its accounting practices....
Our "Scamworld" series has shed some light on a number of internet-based con artists over the last year, mostly ones who try to sell get-rich-quick schemes. They don't just peddle Rush Limbaugh-endorsed business opportunities, or the kind of affiliate sales programs that bamboozle paraplegics out of life savings. Every walk of life has its fair share of people who affix Internet Marketing...
Three members of hacking group LulzSec have pleaded guilty to a series of hacks or DDoS attacks in 2011, including prominent hacker "Kayla." LulzSec, loosely affiliated with the Anonymous banner, was eviscerated last year after member Hector Xavier Monsegur was revealed to be working undercover with the FBI. Since then, several members have submitted pleas in both the US and UK. Now, The Guardian reports that three British hackers have admitted to attacking multiple websites and are now awaiting sentence in mid-May.
Of the three, the best-known is likely Ryan Ackroyd, a 26-year-old who took on the name "Kayla" and the persona of a 16-year-old girl. "Kayla" rose to fame after a 2011 hack of security firm HBGary Federal, where she was credited with posing as the company's CEO to get account details from its IT department. Ackroyd...
Another wave of pleas for a string of 2011 hacks
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In the midst of increasingly dire predictions about climate change and debates over the future of fossil fuels, local Kansas lawmakers have attempted to explicitly ban funding the mere concept of sustainability. Bloomberg has unearthed a February bill from Kansas' House Committee on Energy and...
Check your cell phone contract, and you might come across the following turn of phrase: "We do not sell your personal information." Some version of that phrase is in nearly every carrier Terms of Service, and divides the world’s data into two...
A group of companies including Microsoft, Nokia, and Oracle has filed a new antitrust complaint in the EU, alleging that Google’s Android mobile OS gives an unfair advantage to the company’s mobile applications. The group, called Fairsearch Europe, states in a press...
