TagsTagsThe hacking scandal that has seriously damaged Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (owner of Fox News) may be coming to the US; CNN reports that the FBI is now investigating a News Corp subsidiary for allegedly hacking into the computers of a rival business: Video
James Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch, announced today that British tabloid News of the World will close, following revelations that the paper engaged in systematic hacking of phones. Notice that instead of holding the executives responsible who authorized this outrageous hacking, the Murdoch family chose to simply shut down the entire ...
Fox News, Right Wing, Hacking, News of the World, Rupert Murdoch, News Corp
Fox News is claiming that their @foxnewspolitics Twitter account was hacked last night, when someone posted a series of tweets claiming that the President had been assassinated. Click to enlarge These messages were only deleted within the past hour -- Fox News left them online all night long and most of the ...
Here's the real reason why the right wing knives are looking for Rep. Anthony Weiner's scalp: Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife received $150,000 from anti-health care reform group. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas released his new financial disclosure form on Friday under pressure from Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) and others. Mother Jones ...
Andrew Breitbart, Fraud, Smear, Anthony Weiner, Hacking, Clarence Thomas, Conflict of Interest
On CNN, Rep. Anthony Weiner tells reporters he isn't going to talk about the incredibly dumb "Weinergate" nontroversy. Do you think this is the right way for him to handle the situation? I don't know how I'd handle it, but I do know that this is exactly what smear merchants like ...
Wow, look at all the hate coming my way through Twitter and email this morning! What's got those wingnuts all lathered up? It's the Anthony Weiner fake outrage, of course! They're ranting and spewing talking points like a bunch of brightly colored Breitbart parrots. The bottom line is that they really, really ...
As soon as I heard about the "scandal" involving Rep. Anthony Weiner, and saw it being pushed like crazy by fraudster Andrew Breitbart, I knew it would turn out to be yet another phony story. And that's exactly what happened. If you haven't heard about the latest Breitbart scam, here's a ...
Yesterday WordPress.com revealed that someone had hacked into several of their servers and gained root-level privileges -- the most disastrous type of security breach, because with root privileges the hacker has access to everything on the system. WordPress.com has revealed that someone has gained root-access (“low-level,” as in deep) to several ...
On February 18, the Department of Commerce released the results of yet another independent investigation into the "Climategate" nontroversy, and again (as in the previous four investigations by various agencies) the climate scientists involved were totally cleared of wrongdoing. The latest redundant investigation was requested by arch climate denier Sen. James ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Hacking, Crime, Denial, Fraud, Climategate, Right Wing, James Inhofe
Science fiction author Bruce Sterling has a really interesting take on Wikileaks, Julian Assange, the NSA, and cypherpunk culture: The Blast Shack. An excerpt: The world has lousy diplomacy now. It’s dysfunctional. The world corps diplomatique are weak, really weak, and the US diplomatic corps, which used to be the senior ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Bruce Sterling, NSA, Cryptography, Cypherpunk, Hacking
Forbes writer Daniel Kennedy has one of the best articles I've seen yet on the Gawker security mess, and Gawker Media's failure to deal with it adequately. Kennedy's piece supplies a lot more detail about the attack than other articles. The data breach was not limited to Gawker's user database; apparently ...
The Gawker network security breach is shaping up to be quite serious. PBS has a report with more details on the kind of information that was exposed when hackers (possibly from 4chan) broke into the Gawker database: Gawker Data Breach Could Lead to Attacks on Government Agencies. Gawker Media, one ...
More than a million people's passwords might be at risk tonight, after the Gawker network was cracked wide open: Gawker hacked: Passwords of commenters compromised in ultimate security fail. If "Trust is the New Black," as Craig Newmark tweeted earlier this week, then Gawker just screwed the pooch. This kind ...
Yesterday I commented: The anonymous folks may think they're really anonymous and all proxied up and everything, but if a company like Visa has virtually unlimited money to spend on it (which they do), they will be identified. Today the first arrest in the Wikileaks revenge hacking cases took place: ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Interpol, Crime, Mastercard, Visa, Anonymous, 4chan, Hacking, Netherlands
It appears that one of ABC News's sites has been hacked.
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Interpol, Crime, Mastercard, Visa, Anonymous, 4chan, ABC News, Hacking
Kate at Climatesight has an outstanding article, filled with links, about the most reprehensible fraud yet perpetrated by the global warming denial industry: The Real Story of Climategate. A year ago today, an unidentified hacker published a zipped folder in several locations online. In this folder were approximately one thousand ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Hacking, Crime, Denial, Fraud, Climategate
DeSmogBlog’s Mitchell Anderson has new information on the investigation into the cyber-burglary of Britain’s Climate Research Unit (CRU), thoroughly refuting the claims that the leak came from a “whistle-blower:” Who Hacked the CRU? An interesting post on IT-NETWORKS picks apart what is currently known about the hack job and what ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Hacking, Crime, CRU
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Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Hacking, Crime, Parody, CRU, Humor, Video
In the stolen climatologists’ email story, the latest claim making the rounds of the right wing blogs (originating at Britain’s right wing paper the Daily Mail) is that a BBC correspondent was sent the stolen emails a month before they were made public. Sounds juicy, doesn’t it? So juicy that at ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Hacking, Crime, CRU
The Washington Post’s Andrew Freedman interviewed science historian Spencer Weart about the stolen climate science emails (known at the more hysterical blogs as the “scandal of the century”); Weart has a good perspective on the nontroversy. Andrew Freedman: What effects do you think this will have on public perceptions of ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Hacking, Crime, CRU
A new release of private scientific correspondence reveals an astonishing conspiracy to manipulate and suppress evidence by top researchers in the field of Newtonian physics: Newtongate: the final nail in the coffin of Renaissance and Enlightenment ‘thinking’. If you own any shares in companies that produce reflecting telescopes, use differential ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Hacking, Crime, Parody
Normally I’d ignore this, but “Ace” has posted something so moronically misguided and false it calls for a response: Charles Johnson Now Deleting Posts for Mentioning Hacked Global Warming Fraud Emails. “Ace” says I deleted this comment by LGF reader ‘bosforus’ with “no explanation,” and that I’m “suppressing the data.” That’s ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Hacking, Crime
Right wing bloggers and climate “skeptics” are ranting and fuming about “the global warming scandal of the century,” after the email server of one of the UK’s leading climate research centers was hacked, and thousands of emails were stolen and promptly posted all over the web. (Which is, of course, ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Hacking, Crime
We don’t know what the McCain campaign’s excuse is, but way back in June we pointed out that the Obama campaign’s web administrators were making ridiculous, amateurish security mistakes: Highlights: Newsweek’s Special Election Project. The computer systems of both the Obama and McCain campaigns were victims of a sophisticated cyberattack ...
The serious bug discovered recently in most of the world’s DNS servers has even greater implications, according to security expert Dan Kaminsky: Major Internet security flaw also affects e-mail. LAS VEGAS - A newly discovered flaw in the Internet’s core infrastructure not only permits hackers to force people to visit ...