This snippet from the leaked anti-WikiLeaks document shows U.S. journalists to be targeted in the proposed disinformation campaign. Online freedom advocates blasted the Electronic Frontier Foundation, on Monday, angry that the digital rights group accepted money for its annual awards ceremony from Palantir, a secretive data mining software firm involved in a ...

This snippet from the leaked anti-WikiLeaks document shows U.S. journalists to be targeted in the proposed disinformation campaign. Online freedom advocates blasted the Electronic Frontier Foundation, on Monday, angry that the digital rights group accepted money for its annual awards ceremony from Palantir, a secretive data mining software firm involved in a ...

Occupy Oakland protesters rally in front of the State of California building Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011, in Oakland, Calif. Oakland's citywide general strike, a hastily planned and ambitious action called by Occupy protesters a day after police forcibly removed their City Hall encampment last week, shut down the Port of ...

November 5 is a very special day for Anonymous, for this year Guy Fawkes Day and Caturday coincide. Guy Fawkes Day is the British fireworks holiday appropriated by Alan Moore in the 1982 comic V for Vendetta, which was made into a movie in 2006, which in turn inspired the ...

Score another win for big content against online innovation. Last Friday, the Motion Picture Association of America announced that the spunky streaming movie startup Zediva agreed to close down permanently and to pay the studios $1.8 million and end its court battle with Hollywood. Zediva’s service, which debuted to the public in ...

Score another win for big content against online innovation. Last Friday, the Motion Picture Association of America announced that the spunky streaming movie startup Zediva agreed to close down permanently and to pay the studios $1.8 million and end its court battle with Hollywood. Zediva’s service, which debuted to the public in ...

Researchers have released an attack tool that makes it trivial for anyone to take down websites that allow users to connect via secure connections. Unlike most denial-of-service attacks (DoS) that require an attacker to direct a network of distributed computers to take down a website by flooding it with fake traffic, ...

Anonymous and Antisec factions dumped files on the net Friday detailing data from the computer systems of multiple law enforcement agencies and a law enforcement vendor, including the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, and the Baldwin County Sheriff’s office in Alabama. ...

President Ronald Reagan signed sweeping privacy legislation in 1986 that has morphed into a government backdoor to acquire Americans' online communications Twenty-five years ago Friday, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation that for the first time provided Americans with sweeping digital-privacy protections. The law came at a time when e-mail was used mostly ...

President Ronald Reagan signed sweeping privacy legislation in 1986 that has morphed into a government backdoor to acquire Americans' online communications Twenty-five years ago Friday, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation that for the first time provided Americans with sweeping digital-privacy protections. The law came at a time when e-mail was used mostly ...