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The Sony Saga continues with threats and extortion

Sony Hackers Threaten 9/11 Attack on Movie Theaters That Screen ‘The Interview’       ….. updated  IT’S OVER                 DECEMBER 16, 2014 and the saga begins here… Senior Film and Media Reporter@BrentALang The Sony hackers have threatened a 9/11-like attack on movie theaters that screen Seth Rogen…

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World map of organized crime have profoundly changed in 25 years

  Since the death of Italian anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone 20 years ago, how much has organized crime spread internationally? The trans-continental dimensions of the Sicilian Mafia, Cosa Nostra, was already clear to the legendary prosecutor in 1980 when he took up the “Pizza Connection” case against Salvatore Inzerillo and the boss of the Gambino…

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Revenge for prosecution of web activist

Anonymous hacks U.S. government site Revenge for prosecution of web activist Email   Aaron Swartz, seen here in 2008, hanged himself in his Brooklyn apartment on Friday. The Reddit co-founder was facing federal charges for allegedly stealing millions of scientific journals. (Noah Berger/Reuters)The FBI has launched an investigation after hacker-activist group Anonymous says it hijacked…

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The Best Story Yet: Wikileakes, Bradley Manning, FBI informant, Wired Senior Editor

The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired By Glenn Greenwald Wired/AP Kevin Poulsen and Bradley Manning For more than six months, Wired‘s Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has possessed — but refuses to publish — the key evidence in one of the year’s most significant political stories:  the arrest of U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as…

Wikileaks upholding national security or betrayal of American democracy

WikiLeaks: The National-Security State Strikes Back By Scott Horton WikiLeaks’ disclosure of the 91,000 U.S. government documents that it labels the “Afghan War Diary” raises a number of vital issues. Most of the discussion so far has focused on the significance of the documents themselves. They make the intelligence community look not so intelligent, and…

US oil industry hit by cyberattacks: Was China involved? 26 Jan 2010 02:56 GMT

.. cyberespionage to help do that,” says Greg Garcia, assistant secretary for cybersecurity at the Department (ODCI) … nonprofit venture capital firm funded by the Central Intelligence Agency. The new cyberwarfare has become complex enough … At least three US oil companies were the target of a series of previously undisclosed cyberattacks that may have…