NZ court rejects bid to rejail Megaupload boss, frees cash

29 Feb, 2012, 12:30 pm IST Web services

The founder of the online file-sharing site Megaupload.com has asked a New Zealand court to free nearly a quarter of a million dollars in frozen ... More

NZ judge grants Megaupload founder bail

23 Feb, 2012, 9:04 am IST Web services

U.S. crime-fighters failed in a bid to keep alleged Internet pirate Kim Dotcom behind bars on Wednesday when a New Zealand court freed him ... More

Megaupload faces more copyright, wire fraud charges

20 Feb, 2012, 10:16 am IST Web services

A U.S. grand jury added more charges against file-sharing website Megaupload and its executives, and also accused them of taking copyrighted ... More

BTJunkie voluntarily shuts down

06 Feb, 2012, 4:07 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai Web services 9 Comments

BTJunkie, the file sharing and torrents index voluntarily decided to shut down after being in existence for 7 years. More

Anonymous publishes FBI, Scotland Yard phone call recording

04 Feb, 2012, 3:10 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai General

Anonymous, the always action taking hacktivist group, published the recordings of a phone call between the FBI ... More

Megaupload founder, Kim Dotcom, refused bail in New Zealand

03 Feb, 2012, 3:24 pm IST General 1 Comments

A New Zealand court refused an appeal by the founder of online file-sharing site Megaupload.com to be freed on bail on Friday, ... More

FBI developing app to monitor Facebook, Twitter and more

28 Jan, 2012, 2:29 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai General

The FBI is working on an app that will create an early warning system from material scraped from social networks. According to the BBC, the More

Anonymous targets OnGuardOnline.gov to protest against SOPA

27 Jan, 2012, 12:24 pm IST Aaron Almeida General 16 Comments

A few days back it was reported that in retaliation to the FBI taking down MegaUpload, Anonymous, ... More

"Come for coffee, don't forget the cocaine," joked Dotcom to neighbour

26 Jan, 2012, 10:35 am IST General

Kim Dotcom, the founder of file-sharing site Megaupload.com who faces a lengthy jail term in the United States if convicted of racketeering, money laundering ... More

Megaupload founder faces lengthy extradition battle

25 Jan, 2012, 4:18 pm IST General

Efforts by the United States to extradite the mastermind of an alleged Internet piracy scheme from New Zealand to face copyright infringement ... More

NZ court refuses bail for Megaupload founder, belives he could be a flight risk

25 Jan, 2012, 8:46 am IST General

The founder of online file-sharing website Megaupload, accused of masterminding a scheme that allegedly made more than $175 million through Internet piracy ... More

Megaupload founder's lavish lifestyle interrupted with recent arrest in NZ

24 Jan, 2012, 4:14 pm IST General

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom's online profile was larger-than-life, with fast women, faster cars and chartered planes, yet he lived like a virtual recluse ... More

Megaupload kingpin held in custody, says innocent

23 Jan, 2012, 2:14 pm IST General

The founder of file-sharing website Megaupload was ordered to be held in custody by a New Zealand court on Monday, as he denied charges ... More

MegaUpload taken down by FBI, Anonymous attacks

20 Jan, 2012, 11:18 am IST Padmini Harchandrai General 6 Comments

In the midst of all the SOPA and PIPA wars that are being battled, the FBI took down torrent site, MegaUpload, ... More

German police resort to 'silent SMS' to track miscreants

05 Jan, 2012, 10:27 am IST Anuradha Shetty General 1 Comments

Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, a unit that is the German equivalent of the FBI has devised an unique method ... More

Hackers, IT units focusing on smartphone security

31 Dec, 2011, 3:04 pm IST 2 Comments

Mobile phones, long seen as safe amid rising threats to computer security, have become a key target for hackers ... More

Stratfor hackers publish email, password data

31 Dec, 2011, 2:22 pm IST 1 Comments

Hackers affiliated with the Anonymous group published hundreds of thousands of e-mail addresses they ... More

Stratfor delays website launch after hack attack

30 Dec, 2011, 1:10 pm IST

Private intelligence analysis firm Strategic Forecasting Inc., which was attacked by online hackers at the weekend, ... More

Hackers say to publish emails stolen from Stratfor

29 Dec, 2011, 12:33 pm IST

Hackers affiliated with the Anonymous group said they are getting ready to publish emails stolen from private ... More

China hackers breach U.S. Chamber of Commerce

21 Dec, 2011, 2:18 pm IST

Hackers in China broke through the computer defenses of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce last year and were able to access information ... More