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Pirate Bay Accuses Anti-Piracy Group of Piracy  20 February 2013 
Source: Wired - Posted by Dave Wreski   
The Pirate Bay said it has alerted Finnish authorities to what it termed a “suspected crime” over an anti-piracy group allegedly pilfering the “files from which The Pirate Bay is built, to produce a fraudulent parody site.”
 
The Greatest Hacker T-Shirts This Planet Has Ever Seen  19 February 2013 
Source: Wired - Posted by Anthony Pell   
It was a hacker conference, so just about everyone was wearing a T-shirt. And most of the T-shirts had something to say. “Know Your Enemy,” said one, just beneath that familiar Microsoft Windows logo.
 
Linux Foundation ships UEFI Secure Boot workaround  15 February 2013 
Source: The Register UK - Posted by Anthony Pell   
The Linux Foundation's open source workaround for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot has shipped, and while it's not necessarily the easiest way to boot Linux on UEFI-enabled PCs, its authors claim it should now work with any bootloader and any distribution.
 
Booting Linux using UEFI can brick Samsung laptops  31 January 2013 
Source: H Security - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Booting Linux using UEFI just once on various Samsung laptops is enough to permanently stop them working. Several reports have been posted on the Ubuntu bug tracker, but the problem is likely to also be present in other Linux distributions, as it appears to be caused by a kernel driver for Samsung laptops.
 
Anonymous hits US government site, threatens release of secrets  28 January 2013 
Source: Network World - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Hackers working under the name of the Anonymous hacktivist collective hit a U.S. government website on Saturday, replacing its home page with a 1,340 word text detailing its frustrations with the way the American legal system works and a threat to release "secrets" gathered from U.S. government websites.
 
Student Hacker Expelled After Pointing Out Massive Security Flaw  24 January 2013 
Source: Fast Company - Posted by Anthony Pell   
After pointing out that the data of 250,000 students across Quebec was exposed, Ahmed Al-Khabaz was kicked out of college.
 
Spam levels plummet as industry takes aim at botnets  23 January 2013 
Source: Network World - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Global spam levels continued to fall in 2012 and even the number of malicious attachments was on the wane, new figures from Kaspersky Lab have suggested.
 
How MIT ensnared a hacker, bucking a freewheeling culture  22 January 2013 
Source: Sydney Morning Herald - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Critics say MIT's snaring of hacker Aaron Swartz contradicts its former freewheeling attitude to tech-savvy renegades.In the early days of 2011, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology learned that it had an intruder. Worse, it believed the intruder had been there before.
 
Aaron Swartz, Coder and Activist, Dead at 26  14 January 2013 
Source: Wired - Posted by Dave Wreski   
We often say, upon the passing of a friend or loved one, that the world is a poorer place for the loss. But with the untimely death of programmer and activist Aaron Swartz, this isn’t just a sentiment; it’s literally true. Worthy, important causes will surface without a champion equal to their measure.
 
Linguistics identifies anonymous users  09 January 2013 
Source: SC MagazIne - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Up to 80 percent of certain anonymous underground forum users can be identified using linguistics, researchers say.
 
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