The Brass Monkey

In a move that could hurt Google users in China, the worlds largest search engine executives said that they will no longer censor content for there Chinese operations and probably will pull out of the market if the government does not agree with this decision. Google has been struggling about there operations there for a [...]

Yesterdays outage was the result of a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack. So I guess strictly speaking they were not hacked but merely hit by a bot-net. Amazon was not the only one either. Twitter users of Amazon’s S3 service for Web hosting reported outages as well, and customers of Salesforce.com and Walmart.com were [...]

Extradition might be soon for Gary McKinnon. Flashback 8 years and you might remember that the US Air Force, Navy, Army, Department Of Defense and NASA were all hacked by a UK citizen named Gary McKinnon better known at that time in the hacking world as Solo. He was arrested back then but has so [...]

Hotmail, Gmail and possibly AOL and Yahoo E-Mail account holders have had there passwords hacked from the above services. Microsoft and Google said the compromised information likely came as a result of a phishing scam, through which millions of people are sent e-mail (often warnings about a fake security breach), asking them to click on [...]