If you are a gamer, then you really don’t want to see your avatar fall over dead. This weekend, entire virtual cities with thousands of World of Warcraft players suddenly keeled over.
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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Thousands of scientific papers uploaded to the Pirate Bay — A user called Greg Maxwell just uploaded a torrent with 18,592 scientific publications to the Pirate Bay, in what appears to be a protest directed both at the recent indictment of programmer Aaron Swartz for data theft as well as the scientific publishing model in general.
Zee / The Next Web:
Anonymous hacks SF’s myBART website. Thousands of names, addresses & numbers released. — Anonymous, the online hacktivist group, has released thousands of names, email addresses, home addresses and phone numbers believed to be from myBart.org, an independent site that uses BART’s …
In one of the most sophisticated cyber attacks, hackers have robbed nearly 675,000 pounds from about 3,000 online bank accounts in Britain. The scam was carried out by using a computer virus — described by experts as the most dangerous malware programme …
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