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Photo Hack Day highlights rise of NY hacking culture
Come August 20 and 21, the next Instagram and Hipstamatic could emerge in New York City, ready to do battle in the increasingly tough photo app market. Those are the dates for the Photo Hack Day billed...
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If Apple can’t beat jailbreakers, it’ll recruit them
For Comex, a 19-year-old iPhone hacker whose real name is Nicholas Allegra, jailbreaking the iPhone comes easy. He’s a member of the iPhone Dev Team, the group responsible for continually frustrating...
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Facebook’s IPO filing: ideas and implications
Gentlemen, start your engines. Facebook filed for its initial public offering on Feb. 1. Expectations are that in May it wants to raise $5 billion, which would make it the biggest tech IPO since...
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What numbers and a new book tell us about the Y Combinator way
It seems like incubator and accelerator programs are a dime a dozen these days. But it was Y Combinator, co-founded in 2005 by investor Paul Graham, that paved the way for these other programs, proving...
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If you’re a big data hacker, hack/reduce wants you
Boston’s new hack/reduce collaborative is looking for big data hackers. The goal of this non-profit organization is to foster a bigger, um, big data community in the Cambridge-Boston nexus....
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NY Times: The Chinese hacked us!
As if things weren’t tough enough for newspapers: The New York Times says it’s been the subject of attacks by Chinese hackers over the past four months. The paper and unnamed security experts...
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Twitter says sophisticated hackers may have accessed data on 250,000 user...
Twitter announced late Friday afternoon that sophisticated hackers might have gained access to data associated with about 250,000 accounts on the site, and that the company believes “this attack was...
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We need new laws not just for martyrs like Aaron Swartz, but for trolls like...
It’s been almost a month since hacker-activist Aaron Swartz took his own life at the age of 26, driven — according to those who knew him — by a combination of depression and the threat of jail time....
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LivingSocial reports hack that could affect data of 50 million customers
LivingSocial, the Washington D.C.-based daily deals company, has been suffered from a hack that could have affected the data of more than 50 million customers, AllThingsD first reported Friday based on...
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Two-factor authentication is good, but social media services can’t stop there
So you’ve added two-factor authentication to your web service? That’s a good start. But at this point, two-factor authentication should be just a baseline standard for basic security practices. How...
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After being hacked Apple’s developer site still offline
Apple’s developer website has been offline for over three days, and it took some public hue-and-cry from the Apple blogging community and top developers before the Cupertino, Calif.-based company...
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Hacktivist Richard Stallman takes on proprietary software, SaaS and open source
Richard Stallman, revered by some as a genius (after all, he won a McArthur “genius” grant in 1990) and derided by others as a crackpot, was in New York Monday where he warned against the dangers of...
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Hacked baby monitor? Welcome to the security implications of the internet of...
The internet of things promises great things with its profusion of connected devices, but it also brings with it significant risks. My colleague Derrick Harris recently described many of those risks,...
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Anatomy of a hack: How the SEA took down the NYT and Twitter
The New York Times and Twitter’s UK site went offline for some users on Tuesday as part of an attack that the Syrian Electronic Army took credit for. The SEA is a pro-Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad...
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Technical Machine gets $1M to let web developers play with the internet of...
Technical Machine (see disclosure) has raised $1 million in seed round funding led by True Ventures (see disclosure) with Slow Ventures and angels participating. The Boston-based startup was created...
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Millions of Germans caught up in email-hacking botnet
The German information security ministry has warned the country’s citizens that many of them have been caught up in a massive botnet. Around 16 million people’s information – email addresses and...
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British intelligence used DDoS tactics against Anonymous, Snowden documents show
The British spy agency GCHQ secretly waged war against the hacker collective Anonymous a few years ago, according to documents taken from the NSA by Edward Snowden and revealed late Tuesday by NBC. At...
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MtGox “fraud evidence” hacked and published, complete with Bitcoin...
Over the weekend, hackers stole the database of the failed Bitcoin exchange MtGox, hijacked the blog and Reddit account of MtGox CEO Mark Karpeles — and published the former via the latter. The data...
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Disconnect unveils private search Android app and web interface
Disconnect Search, a tool that lets people use popular search engines without having their queries logged or tracked, just got easier to use. On Monday, the outfit took the wraps off a new version...
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Security company Avast suffers embarrassing forum hack
Getting hacked is embarrassing enough when you’re a high-profile web firm like eBay, but infinitely more so when you’re actually in the security business. So it’s red cheeks all around over at the...
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