Split by SouthWest: My SXSW 2012 Diary
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, March 15 2012
danah boyd and Alex Howard at SXSW 2012 (Photo by Micah L. Sifry)
PDM editorial director Micah L. Sifry spent last Friday through Monday at South by SouthWest Interactive, attending panels, keynotes and hanging out. Here's his report: SXSW is still a place where sessions packed with thousands of attendees cheer for the iconoclasts and the game-changers. It is also much more of a business networking conference than an internet futurists' playpen. In short, it has a split personality. Read More
The FBI Says "Sabu," the Influential LulzSec Member, One of Two Arrested, Six Charged
BY Nick Judd | Tuesday, March 6 2012
In a press release, the Federal Bureau of Information announced the indictment of six people who are charged with using their hacking skills to sneak onto an FBI call with other law enforcement agencies as well as information raids on HBGary, an information security firm that had been apparently planning a propaganda campaign against Wikileaks, and Stratfor, a global intelligence firm; and attacks on websites belonging to Fox, Sony, and PBS.
The release supports much of a FoxNews.com exclusive published earlier today. Together, they paint a picture of key mistakes compromising the security of the FBI — and of the man Fox News reports is a LulzSec leader turned informant.
Read MoreAnonymous And LulzSec Are At It Again, and This Time, It's Legal
BY Becky Kazansky | Wednesday, July 27 2011
Lulz Security and Anonymous, better known for illegal data breaches and acts of 'hacktivism,' today called for supporters to engage in a new protest against their old nemesis PayPal — but participants in this ... Read More
Report: Fear of 'Internet Vigilantes' Holds Back Austrialian Internet Filtering Initiative
BY Nick Judd | Monday, June 27 2011
Telstra, one of Australia's biggest Internet service providers, has not yet made a final decision on whether or not to cooperate with the federal government there to block access to websites that purvey material ... Read More
Senate Staffer Says Hackers Knocked, But Didn't Get Far
BY Nick Judd | Tuesday, June 14 2011
Hackers gained access to files on Senate.gov over the weekend, but gained access to no sensitive information, Deputy U.S. Senate Sergeant at Arms Martina Bradford said in a statement emailed to reporters last night. ... Read More
Updated: Hackers Say They've Broken Into Senate.gov
BY Nick Judd | Monday, June 13 2011
LulzSec, the same people who hacked PBS.org, announced today that they've hacked into Senate.gov, the website of the U.S. Senate. A spokeswoman for the Senate Sergeant at Arms, the office responsible for the senate's ... Read More