Hacktivism organizations Anonymous and Lulzsec have been prolific in the past week, hacking hundreds of websites in China. They continue to shine harsh lights on areas they perceive as being injustices to freedom worldwide. Their Chinese website hacks, first reported on March 30th, ask for Chinese citizens to join Anonymous and posted links on advice [...]
On February 22, the California Attorney General’s office announced that Apple, Google, Amazon, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, and Research in Motion (RIM), all of whom host mobile app marketplaces, have agreed to implement new standards for privacy policy notification. All the aforementioned companies signed a pledge to resolve this current spate of privacy related issues. Application developers [...]
(LiveHacking.Com) - Facebook, the popular social media network, has redesigned its privacy controls allowing users to manage the sharing setting for each and every item posted online. Facebook has often been criticized over its security and privacy policies especially since it has more than 750 million active users who are posting, often personal, details to the [...]
April 2, 2011: Anonymous, the online hactivist collective, begins Operation: Sony, a series of DoS (denial of service) attacks on Sony’s websites April 11, 2011: Sony announces the case between George Hotz and Sony has been settled out of court and that Hotz has agreed to take down his website. April 13, 2011: Anonymous releases [...]
