The Federal Bureau of Investigation today raided three New York-area homes where agents believed three members of the online hacker group known as “Anonymous” were living. Investigators took at least one laptop from one of the residences. Police think the device may have been used in denial-of-service attacks against several large corporations. Almost a dozen [...]

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Sears really can be a great place to find bargains.  Sometimes, though, certain bargains might be too good to be true. Sears.com accidentally advertised the Apple 16GB iPad 2 for $69, which is obviously much lower than the regular price of about $499.99. The seemingly super deal got iPad 2 shoppers worked up in quite [...]

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That was quick.  Hot on the heals of the unveiling of Google Wallet, Paypal has filed a lawsuit against the company and two of its former executives over trade secrets. According to the lawsuit (embedded below), Osama Bedier, a former PayPal executive now working at Google, stole PayPal trade secrets and shared them with Google [...]

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SpaceX is at it again.  Space Exploration Technologies, the company that successfully launched the Falcon 9 rocket last year, has unveiled plans to launch the Falcon Heavy, the most powerful rocket since man went to the moon. The Falcon Heavy rocket will likely be able to lift twice as much cargo into orbit as the space [...]

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Following the arrests of five people in Britain for their supposed involvement in the widely-publicized DDoS attacks in December of last year against a number of online companies for their involvement in cutting services to WikiLeaks, the online group known as Anonymous has declared war on the U.K.  The companies originally targeted by the attacks [...]

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The fallout continues. Bank of America said today that it will stop processing payments intended for WikiLeaks. B of A joins an ever-growing list of companies who have terminated services for the controversial, whistle-blowing website, including PayPal, Amazon, and MasterCard.  Ironically (and in possibly related news), WikiLeaks has already said that its next big leak [...]

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Here’s a shock – the porn star who claimed to have a sex tape of herself with Tiger Woods was lying. Devon James claimed to have a tape of her romp with the star golfer and was selling pre-orders on her website for $19.99. Now, her husband, Nick Janette, claims that they were paid off [...]

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The internet group known as ‘Anonymous’ is at it again, this time targeting the MasterCard website along with the Swedish prosecutor’s website in defense of WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, who was arrested earlier this week. The group has initiated what they’ve dubbed “Operation:Payback”, a plan to take down the websites of those companies [...]

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The troubles continue for the WikiLeaks website and its founder Julian Assange. The Swiss post office’s bank, PostFinance, has now frozen the accounts belonging to Assange. The freeze includes a defense fund and personal assets worth 31,000 euros. The Wikileaks website is responsible for the publication of hundreds of secret U.S. cables, causing widespread outrage [...]

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The walls continue to crumble around the controversial WikiLeaks website. PayPal has just suspended the account the site uses to collect donations from its contributors. It appears the company was encouraged to do so by the government as a tweet posted by WikiLeaks reads, “PayPal bans WikiLeaks after US government pressure.” PayPal issued its own [...]

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WePay decided to send a big message to its competitor in the online payment industry, PayPal. The company has dropped a 600-pound ice block in front of the Paypal developer conference in San Francisco. Inside the massive block of ice lay hundreds of dollars, frozen beneath the surface. The message on the ice block reads,” [...]

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Wikileaks is set to release over 400,000 sensitive documents surrounding the Iraq War on Monday in what will be the largest leak since the site leaked the controversial Afghan War Report. UPDATE: Click here to read the Pentagon’s response to the newly leaked documents. The Pentagon is bracing itself and has been sorting through database [...]

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