Two things set a one-block stretch of Florence Avenue apart from other American streets. One is the quirky metal sculptures planted in front of most homes; the other is the Internet traffic coursing through recently-strung fiber-optic cables on the block’s utility poles. They offer each house up to one gigabit per second in bandwidth, making this one of the fastest streets in America.
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is due to appear in Auckland High Court on Tuesday morning as representatives of the US government appeal a ruling that set him free on bail last week.
Dotcom was granted bail on the conditions that he wear an electronic monitoring bracelet, stay at his rented mansion outside of Auckland and not access the internet.
Top execs at the SOPA-promoting RIAA said over and over that the process of addressing alleged copyright infringements would be open and fair, not the secret-accusations-in-a-back-room affair most SOPA opponents imagined it would be.
All opponents had to go on was the language in the act, which described a process in which those claiming to own copyrights could make accusations to law enforcement agencies, which would go enforce the law without having to validate that the accusations were true or that the accuser actually owned the copyright.
A group of researchers has created the first community-run biology laboratory in New York City.
The lab is an effort to provide a home for amateur scientists, as well as professionals looking for a space away from academia and business.
The co-founder of Genspace says it is "crucial that this lab exists" in order to foster creativity in the sciences. The BBC's Matt Danzico visited the Brooklyn facility, which originally opened in late 2010, at a building home to a range of professionals ranging from designers to pastry chefs.
Phishing attempts against workplace email accounts drop precipitously on Christmas and New Year's Day, but spike dramatically during American holidays, according to a report from security company FireEye.
The white hats don’t wear white hats. They wear jeans, shorts, T-shirts and hoodies; many had bike-messenger bags. They have beards of diverse lengths, shaved heads and multiple tattoos. Sometimes, the more eminent, established white hats can be found in khakis.
Megaupload.com founder Kim Dotcom is awaiting extradition to the US after the country requested New Zealand authorities detain him, pending a formal extradition request.
Dotcom, a dual citizen of Germany and Finland who changed his name from Schmitz, was detained on charges of copyright infringement conspiracy, according to Bloomberg.
Moscow has accused Washington of unlawfully extraditing a Russian national from Switzerland, the Russian foreign ministry spokesman said.
Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday that Russian national Vladimir Zdorovenin, accused of financial cyber crimes, faces up to 142 years in prison in the US, where he was extradited from Switzerland earlier this week.
A new strain of the Sykipot malware is being used by Chinese cyber criminals to compromise US Department of Defense (DoD) smart cards, a new report has revealed.
The malware has been designed to take advantage of smart card readers running ActivClient - the client application of ActivIdentity - according to unified security information and event management (SIEM) company AlienVault.
A variant of the notorious Zeus virus has been circulating the offices of government agencies through an email from hackers who are aping the sender address @US-CERT.GOV, the true U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team disclosed Wednesday evening. Researchers outside of US-CERT traced the malicious software to a botnet -- a remotely-controlled network of infected computers -- that is taking commands from computers located in Russia.
