275k+ Sony files: WikiLeaks publishes massive new cache of hacked docs

Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has released 276,394 new documents stolen from Sony Pictures in November by an unidentified hacker. It adds to 30,000 documents and 173,132 emails released earlier in April. The new documents are available since Tuesday through the WikiLeaks search service. No public statement from the website came with the publication, but it claimed on Twitter that the dump contains some sensitive legal documents tied to an alleged...

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Super-private social network launched to take on Facebook with support of Anonymous ?

A new social network, backed by Anonymous, hopes to take on Facebook and the other social media giants with a commitment to privacy, security and transparency about how posts are promoted. The site, Minds.com, has the same basic options as any other social network: users send updates to their followers, who can comment or promote posts that they read. But unlike its competitors it doesn’t aim to make money from gathering data — instead,...

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Photo appears to show Anonymous member killed in Israel

A member of the Anonymous hacker collective appears to have been killed in the ongoing violence in Israel. In a photograph by the Israel-based photographer Abed Qusini, proteser Tayeb Abu Shehada, 22, can be seen throwing a rock at Israeli soldiers while sporting a Guy Fawkes mask, the unofficial symbol for Anonymous. Shortly after the first photo was taken, Shehada (the name is also spelled Shehadah in different accounts)...

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Catastrophic Collapse of Saiga Antelope Leaves 120,000 Dead in a Month

Kazakhstan – An aerial survey conducted as part of a national monitoring program earlier this year estimated that the saiga antelope population numbered approximately 250,000 animals prior to this mass die-off, which has therefore halved the total population in about one month. Preliminary analysis indicates that a combination of environmental and biological factors is contributing to this catastrophic event, which has seen four large...

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Mystery Human Species, Facts Emerge From Denisovan Genome

In November 2013, researchers discovered an entirely new species of hominin currently strange to modern science. The genome analysis of a finger bone and two teeth found in a Siberian cave suggested there was interbreeding between modern humans, Neanderthals, Denisovans and an unknown archaic population. The genome from a Neanderthal was also analyzed from the excavation, and the results suggested that interbreeding was common...

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Facebook Takes Down Bitcoin Stealing Botnet that Infected 250,000 Computers

Once again Facebook is on The Hacker News! This time not for any scam or surveillance, but for a different reason.  The social networking giant has managed to take down a Greek botnet that used Facebook to spread malware and infected 250,000 computers to mine crypto-currencies, steal bitcoins, email passwords and banking details. Facebook is always one of the favourite weapon of cyber criminals, cyber thieves and...

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Facebook Founder Wants to Make Internet Availability as Universal as 911 Emergency Service

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has a dream to make Internet access available to everyone across the world - Zuckerberg argues Internet should be a service as essential as of 911 in the case of an emergency. In a blog post published Monday in The Wall Street Journal, founder of the social networking giant highlighted the future of universal Internet access, along with the steps he thinks to achieve it. Today...

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