If you were responsible, rest easy my son, as the UK plod has shelved the investigation in to who hacked the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU). The Climategate attack released over 1000 emails messages and 3800 documents relating to global warming, or the lack of it. At the time of release the 160gb of data provided grim confirmation for critics of climate science. After a comprehensive analysis of the released data the allegations were three fold, that climate scientists controlled the publishing process... 

Kentucky teenager Savanna Dietrich faces jail time. Her crime? Being molested by two teenage boys at a party. You see Savanna went to a party, where she clearly had too much partying and past out. According to Dietrich, after passing out, her attackers molested her, and they also allegedly videotaped the incident and shared it with their friends online. The juvenile defendants were charged with first-degree sexual abuse and misdemeanor voyeurism, reports the Louisville Courier Journal. The teens pleaded guilty to those charges in late June and are... 

On July 9th Judge Colin Birss issued a ruling that the Samsung’ Galaxy tablet did not infringe Apple’s registered designs as it was unlikely to be confused with the iPad because they are “not as cool.” Yesterday the Judge stated that the decision of July 9th should now be published widely, including posted on Apple’s U.K. home page for six months and published in a number of newspapers and magazines, including, according to the draft copy of the order, the Daliy Mail, Guardian Mobile Magazine, the FT and T3. The logic being... 

Users of popular file sharing service Dropbox are reporting an influx of spam, practically their European based users. The Dropbox user forum has seen an increasing number of postings since Monday indicating users are receiving Spam to their dedicated Dropbox email addresses. The Dropbox response has been to hire outside experts to investigate the source of the spam and the possible breach of data. Currently there are over 200 posts from users about the spam on the Dropbox forum where users have reported receiving over 40 emails since the weekend,... 

Security professional that focus on web application security will have heard of WebGoat. It is a project by OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project), which is designed to teach web application security to web developer. Inspired by this project, OWASP have release a similar learning tool for iOS (using in iPhone and iPad) developers called iGoat. The iGoat project aims to be a developer safe learning environment where the users can learn about the major security pitfalls as well as how to avoid them. Similar to WebGoat, the users are presented... 

Cloud computing has been one of the latest hype’s in the technological world today. It encompasses different technologies, models and platforms which allows for a more efficient computing by centralizing several resources. There are several advantages of cloud computing to companies compared to the conventional computing creating “thirst” for the cloud. The cloud introduces economies of scale to companies planning to invest in the technology. Virtualization on which the cloud relies on, efficiently utilizes available resources efficiently.... 

The FBI arrested 24 hackers from across the globe, including the leader and members of the global hacking group UGNazi on Tuesday. The people arrested were all men and ranged from 18 to 25-years old Hackers from the US, Norway, Australia, Japan, Italy and the UK were included in the massive operation. Eleven people were arrested in the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Manhattan US Attorney’s office said. One of the men, Mir Islam, known online as “JoshTheGod,” was charged with trafficking in 50,000 stolen... 

Members of the hacking group LulzSec have pleaded guilty to hacking a number of websites. Ryan Cleary, 20, from Essex’s and Jake Davis, 19, from the Shetland Isles, admitting being part of the hacking group LulzSec. Cleary confessed to four charges, including hacking into US Air Force Agency computers, based at the Pentagon. Both confessed to running denial of service attacks against a number of targets, including the websites of Sony, NHS, News International, 20th Century Fox and Nintendo. While confessing to some of the charges, both Davis... 

When is an Advert not an Ad, or more precisely when IS an Advert an Ad? According to the U.K.’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), anytime you are promoting a company or its product or services it an Advert, and should be labelled as such. Manchester United player Wayne Rooney and Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere were Tweeting a Nike slogan, without making it clear that the Tweet was a Nike promotion. Rooney Tweeted on the 1st Jan the following, “My resolution – to start the year as a champion, and finish it as a champion…#makeitcount... 

E3 is done and dusted for another year. But what a year it has been with huge announcements and brilliant new game trailers and game play released. We have picked the best of E3 2012 and included videos of the visually stunning game play. There are 10 games on the list, but the release of Nintendo Wii U also makes our list and takes our total Top Ten to Eleven! Let us know if we missed any good ones in the comments below and we will update the article. 11: Resident Evil 6 Originally slated for worldwide release on November 20th this year, it’s...