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National Watchdogs Becoming Concerned Over Money Laundering Potential of Bitcoin, Virtual Currencies
The Australian anti-money-laundering watchdog the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (or AUSTRAC) issued a report in July that assigned a higher priority of concern to virtual currencies such as World of Warcraft gold and Bitcoin. This isn’t something entirely unexpected by both economists and experts on virtual currencies, after all hackers and others have ...
Google and Boingo Extend the Reach of Free Wi-Fi in NYC for the Summer
Courtesy of Google Offers, numerous New York City subway stations will be receiving free Wi-Fi via Boingo. The idea is to provide the Wi-Fi to customers with an advertising subtext that permits local businesses to push marketing spiels to wireless users in order to direct them to their stores and offer them exclusive deals. The ...
The Week Anonymous Didn’t Hack Sony’s PlayStation Network (Again)
It’s only been a year now, but the lingering sting of when the PlayStation Network was taken offline by hackers and the potential involvement of Anonymous in the initial hack still aches like a sore tendon. As a result, when rumors arise that the hactivist collective has been on the prowl against and 0wnzored the ...
What Happened to OnLive? Cloud Gaming Outfit Closes Up Shop and Evaporates
Friday last week wasn’t much of a TGIF for cloud-based gaming company OnLive employees as the company laid off its entire staff and closed its doors. According to an article in Polygon this caught the entire gaming industry by surprise and the confirmation came down from a report out of Kotaku that confirmed that OnLive ...
Bitcoin: Feeding the Low-Overhead Revolution One Darknet at a Time
Whenever Bitcoin is brought up two thoughts often leap into the same arena at the same time one that involves the strange enigma of economics and the other that speaks to the freedom-loving cryptogeek in every Internet activist. So when I stumbled across Kevin Carson’s essay on the impact of Bitcoin at C4SS, it piqued ...
Microsoft Too Can Get Hip with MAKER Culture but It’s Weak MAKE-fu
Innovation is a fleeting firefly chased by every company and corporation, but often its an ideal arising out of a sudden leap forward by an individual and not part of the everyday grind. In many ways, this is why I gravitate towards looking at organizations such as Hacker Dojo and other in-your-garage oriented inventive and ...
North American Blizzard Players Swept Up in Hack that Also Breached Authenticators
Blizzard, the well known publisher of super-popular games such as World of Warcraft and Diablo 3, has suffered a breach—as a result, before jumping back into the game (or if you’re a hardcore gaming before doing anything) you should log into the web page and change your Battle.net password. This week, Blizzard published a security ...
Anonymous Strikes Back Against Ukrainian Government over BitTorrent with #OpDemonoid
The Anonymous hacktivist collective has pulled their try-hard pants on and taken their stomping books to the Ukrainian government over the takedown of the popular BitTorrent tracker Demonoid. As reported by TorrentFreak, the raid appears to have been done at the behest of IFPI (and potentially to earn brownie points with United States copyright regimes) ...
A Week of Infiltration, from the Olympics to Dropbox and Beyond
This week we’ve seen a dipping off of the London Olympics as the schedule begins to wind down, but that doesn’t mean that we’re not looking at it edgewise from the point of view of Big Data—Saroj Kar notices this year people around the world are able to tune in via the Internet, mobile devices, ...
Adrian Cockcroft Architecture Director at Netflix in #theCube Talking Chaos Monkey and Cassandra
John Furrier sat down in theCube to speak with Adrian Cockcroft, Director of architecture for the Cloud Systems team at Netflix, and together they spoke about how Netflix handled the recent power outages, the AWS cloud failure, and how their system has grown from its inception into the behemoth of public cloud power it has ...