Hack Attack: Senate, CIA Sites Take a Hit

Staff / Truthdig Jun 16, 2011 A band of hackers by the collective name of LulzSec brought the CIA's website down for the count Wednesday, and while they were at it the technogeeks broke into the Senate's site. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A Campaign to Smear WikiLeaks Supporters

Staff / Truthdig Feb 13, 2011 Internal documents of a California computer security firm obtained by pro-WikiLeaks hackers have been made available online, suggesting various ways companies can help undermine the whistle-blowing website as it prepares to release material that could prove damaging to Bank of America and other financial entities. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

WikiLeaks Gets Hacked

Staff / Truthdig Nov 29, 2010 WikiLeaks, the website that has provided damning classified material on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, says it has come under a denial-of-service attack as it prepares to release another batch of secret U.S. documents. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Lighter Than Air

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Technical Difficulties Bring Luck to Calif. Workers

Staff / Truthdig Jul 17, 2010 California's outdated technical infrastructure has made 200,000 state employees very, very happy. After an injunction by the governor to cut workers pay to the state's $7.25 minimum wage, the state controller has successfully argued that such pay docking would be impossible given the state's outdated payroll computer system. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Multitasking Our Way to Distraction

Staff / Truthdig Jun 7, 2010 What do we stand to gain from all our gadgetry in this, our wired (not to mention wireless) era? Improved manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination? The ability to soundly defeat pixelated alien hordes via video games? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Technology News Flash: Computer Users Slightly Less Inclined to IM

Staff / Truthdig May 25, 2010 Those fickle users of online communication technologies have defied the expectations of both select BBC reporters and people paid to study these things, at least when it comes to their instant messaging, which has apparently dropped off in recent years. Why could this be? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Oh, to Be a 9-Year-Old Computer Genius

Staff / Truthdig May 19, 2010 Meet Marco Calasan, the world's youngest Microsoft systems engineer and official computer genius. At the advanced age of 9, Marco, who calls Macedonia his home, is already the author of a book on Windows 7 that he's hoping to publish and has earned four Microsoft certificates. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Internet Fraud Losses Doubled in 2009

Staff / Truthdig Mar 14, 2010 From Nigerian "millionaire" plans to "FBI agent" schemes, millions of dollars have been lost to scams on the Internet. Last year saw reported losses from Internet fraud more than double, rising from $264.6 million in 2008 to $559.7 million in 2009. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Robin Hood Hacker

Staff / Truthdig Feb 26, 2010 A hacker using the alias "Neo" has attained almost cult status in Latvia after releasing through Twitter the confidential financial data of allegedly corrupt banks and state-owned companies that profited from the global recession. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Behold the iPad

Staff / Truthdig Jan 27, 2010 After months of breathless anticipation, techies everywhere have a new gadget/cultural phenomenon on their hands in the form of Apple Inc.’s new tablet, the iPad. Apple CEO Steve Jobs was on hand to do the unveiling honors at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Wednesday morning, and based on the results, you can bet the lines will be forming in front of Apple stores yet again. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Digital Dumping and the Global ‘E-Cycling’ Scam

Gbemisola Olujobi / Truthdig Nov 11, 2009 The port of Lagos in Nigeria receives about 400,000 used computers every month, out of which only one in four is useful The rest end up in landfills, garbage dumps and, in a curious twist, as resources for scammers. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )