Megaupload’s founder is offering mega-bucks to anybody who can help him prove his long-argued contention that Hollywood studios illegally set US authorities on him.
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Google to flag ‘right to be forgotten’ censored search results
Google is reportedly planning to put an alert on the bottom of every page where links have been removed in the wake of the recent “right to be forgotten” court ruling. 
Facebook stupidity leads to largest gang bust in NYC history
Social media was the perfect place to brag about four years of alleged stabbings, assaults, robberies, shootings and murders, via hundreds of Facebook updates, direct messages, mobile phone videos, and calls made from Rikers Correctional Facility to plot the deaths of rival gang members.
Gameover and CryptoLocker revisited – the important lessons we can learn
Which is worse – Gameover or CryptoLocker? What can we learn from the recent US-led takedown of this notorious crimeware? More importantly, what advice should we be passing on to other people?
Feds swoop in, snatch mobile phone tracking records away from ACLU
After the Feds seized the surveillance records, US Marshals then moved the physical records 320 miles away, meaning the ACLU wouldn’t be able to learn how, and how extensively, police use snooping devices.
Patch Tuesday for June 2014 – 7 bulletins, 3 RCEs, 2 critical, and 1 funky sort of hole
You’ll be patching and rebooting everything this month. Paul Ducklin gives you a brief overview to help you prepare. He also explains some vulnerability terminology you might not have heard before…
Mobile malware, Gameover, CryptoLocker, and SSL/TLS holes – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
How long has mobile malware been around? Is it really game over for Gameover and CryptoLocker? Which cryptographic security libraries need patching? It’ll only take a minute to find out…
Snowden, one year on, and it’s still not 1984
It’s a year since Snowden lifted the lid on PRISM and everything that followed. We’ve spent a year looking for Big Brother while we uploaded more of our lives into the care of giant media corporations and pointed an ever increasing battery of cameras at each other.
What we learned from Edward Snowden
Tapping the conversations of world leaders, facial recognition, PRISM, Tempura, Upstream, XKeyscore… Whether you think Snowden’s a hero or a traitor, there’s no denying that revelations about widespread spying by the NSA keep pouring out. One year on from the first leak, we thought we’d take a look back at what we’ve learned.
UK hackers could “face the justice they deserve” with up to life in jail
A proposed amendment to the Computer Misuse Act 1990 will carry a sentence of up to lifetime imprisonment. The current Act only allows for a maximum sentence of 10 years behind bars, which ministers feel does not adequately reflect the potential damage posed to people and the UK economy.