Hacker collective Anonymous has taken down key Israeli government websites in a “retaliatory” attack against israel and in solidarity with the people of Gaza. israel Defense Forces, Bank of Israel, and the Israeli PM’s Office were among the targets. Others hit by the attack included Israeli’s ministry of Finance, the Embassy of israel to the […] Continue reading → 
Security is a top priority for Google. We invest a lot in making sure that our services use industry-leading security, like strong HTTPS encryption by default. That means that people using Search, Gmail and Drive, for example, automatically have a secure connection to Google. Beyond our own stuff, we’re also working to make the Internet […] Continue reading → 
Wal-Mart, in its latest bid to compete with nemesis Amazon.com, is rebuilding its website to further personalize the online shopping experience of each customer. Wal-Mart is rolling out a feature that will enable its website to show shoppers more products that they may like, based on their previous purchases. It also will customize Wal-Mart’s home […] Continue reading → 
Terresa Monroe-Hamilton Who says fascism is out of style? Evidently the FEC is making it chic again. The Chairman of the Federal Election Commission berated Democratic colleagues who imposed rules on the publisher of Rep. Paul Ryan’s new book, The Way Forward. In essence, they opened the door to future book regulations or even the […] Continue reading → 
Elite use technology and dirty tricks to undermine truth tellers Documents released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal how the NSA conducts information war against the alternative media. Working in tandem with GCHQ – the British Government Control Headquarters – the NSA is engaged in a full court press against news and information outlets beyond […] Continue reading → 
Major U.S. web companies on Monday urged regulators to restrict the ability of Internet providers including mobile carriers to strike deals for faster delivery of some web traffic and planned a publicity campaign about the government’s proposal. The Internet Association, which represents three dozen web companies such as Google Inc, Netflix Inc and Amazon.com Inc, […] Continue reading → 
Chuck Norris As most kids are screaming “School’s out for summer,” 18-year-old high-school student Andrew Lampart is still trying to figure out why his school’s Internet service blocked him from gathering conservative facts for his side of the argument on his school debate team. Andrew told Fox News, “I knew it was important to get […] Continue reading → 
One of the lessons that Andrew Lampart learned from being on his school’s debate team was to gather facts for both sides of an argument. So last month when his law class was instructed to prepare for a debate on gun control, Andrew went online using the school’s Internet service. “I knew it was important […] Continue reading → 
Sarah Jean Seman Senior Andrew Lampart was prepping for a gun control debate at his Connecticut high school when he uncovered a halting bias—he could only access websites from one side of the debate. Nonnewaug High School’s firewall protection blocked the National Rifle Association from his computer. At the same time, it allowed access to […] Continue reading → 
Facebook Inc is expanding the internal user profiles that underpin its targeted advertising system, for the first time including personal information based on activities that did not occur within the boundaries of its social network. While Facebook has long maintained internal profiles of users based on the comments they make and the posts that they […] Continue reading → 
Raymond Ibrahim Very graphic videos recently appeared on Arabic-language media portraying Islamic jihadis in Syria slaughtering donkeys in order to consume them. The main point made by some of these websites is that the jihadis are hypocrites for (again) violating Islamic law, which bans the eating of domesticated donkeys. In the words of a fatwa, […] Continue reading → 
There are some negative comments on HostGator over the Internet indicating that this company scams and sucks. Is HostGator really a scam or a sucking company? As the web hosting industry has always been the target of many scammers and spammers, everyone should find an answer for this question before paying for any HostGator web […] Continue reading → 
A report has revealed that hackers are selling eBay login details online in the wake of the recent attack against the company in which details of over 233 million customers were stolen. Now an investigation set up by UK newspaper, The Sun on Sunday, claims to have found scammers selling credentials of affected users online, […] Continue reading → 
Iranian hackers have become increasingly aggressive and sophisticated, moving from disrupting and defacing U.S. websites to engaging in cyber espionage, security experts say. According to Silicon Valley-based cybersecurity company FireEye Inc (FEYE.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), a group called the Ajax Security Team has become the first Iranian hacking group known to use custom-built […] Continue reading → 
Four weeks on, huge swaths of the Internet remain vulnerable to Heartbleed More than four weeks after the disclosure of the so-called Heartbleed bug found in a widely used cryptography package, slightly more or slightly less than half the systems affected by the catastrophic flaw remain vulnerable, according to two recently released estimates. A scan […] Continue reading →