Posts Tagged ‘Cyberculture’
#OpIsrael Imagery Anonymous vs. Israel today. @theRedHack
In Uncategorized on April 7, 2013 at 16:56Cyberculture roundup: Anonymous launches massive cyber assault on Israel #OpIsrael
In Uncategorized on April 7, 2013 at 16:41
Anonymous launches massive cyber assault on Israel
Anonymous’ hackers launch cyberattack on Israeli sites
Fox News
JERUSALEM – A weekend cyberattack campaign targeting Israeli government websites failed to cause serious disruption, officials said Sunday. The attacks following warnings in the name of the hacking group Anonymous that it was launching a massive
Hackers attack Israel, but damage ‘minimal’
from Hurriyet Daily News
Hackers have launched an assault on Israeli websites, but the damage has been minimal..
WikiLeaks Party unveils Australian election plans
from Hurriyet Daily News
Whistleblowing group WikiLeaks unveiled plans to field candidates in at least three states in Australia’s elections.
Twitter complaint starts probe
from Hurriyet Daily News
Eight public servants working at a local administrator’s office are under investigation for not responding.
E-trade volume in Turkey rises by 20 percent
from Hurriyet Daily News
E-commerce volume in Turkey has boomed in the first two months of the year with a 19.5 percent increase from the same period a year earlier.
Schneier and Zittrain on digital security and the power of metaphors
from …My heart’s in Accra by Ethan
Bruce Schneier is one of the world’s leading cryptographers and theorists of security. Jonathan Zittrain is a celebrated law professor, theorist of digital technology and wonderfully performative lecturer. The two share a stage at Harvard Law School’s Langdell Hall. JZ introduces Bruce as the inventor of the phrase “security theatre”, author of a leading textbook on cryptography and subject of a wonderful internet meme.
Explained: Bitcoin and its dramatic plunge in value today
from The Next Web by Alex Wilhelm
TV Advertising Still Dominant, Still Growing
from Mashable! by Lauren Indvik
Google Challenges Secretive National Security Letter in Court
from Mashable! by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
What Google’s WebKit Fork Means for the Web and Web Developers
from Wired Top Stories by Scott Gilbertson
Google is breaking away from WebKit, the rendering engine that currently powers the company’s Chrome web browser. Google has forked WebKit to create its own rendering engine, dubbed Blink. While it may dash the dreams of those hoping for a WebKit-only web, Blink is good news for the web and web developers.
15-Year-Old Zuckerberg’s Angelfire Site Is Better Than Facebook
from Mashable! by The Daily Dot
On Reddit, good links rise to the top — but it can sometimes take a few attempts to get there
from Nieman Journalism Lab by Caroline O’Donovan
Special Series: Online Advertising, Evolved
from MediaShift
If the banner ad isn’t dead, it’s certainly on life support.
Once upon a time (actually, not so long ago), there was one way to advertise online: the almighty banner ad. But, the banner ad just didn’t do enough. It didn’t fully take advantage of the medium, it was hard to track, and it certainly didn’t keep up with the lightning speed at which the medium changed.
Digital Magazines Dive Into Native Advertising
from MediaShift
Ah, that awkward moment when you’re interviewing someone about online advertising and you have to pause to quit your ad-blocking browser plugin so you can view a sample ad.
Facebook’s long road to “mobile best”: HTML5, native apps, and now Home
from The Next Web by Ken Yeung
Don’t Hate Google for Reader — Award It the Nobel Prize for Books
from Wired Top Stories by Wired Opinion
Given that literary fame is so fickle, it might make more sense to anoint a work that’s mutable — an all-encompassing text that changes at the pace of society itself. Today there is such a work. And that is why, in 2013, the Swedish Academy should award the Nobel Prize in Literature to Google. The idea isn’t as implausible as one might think.
“Bitcoin: The Cyberpunk Cryptocurrency- A slideshow
In Uncategorized on April 7, 2013 at 14:357-8 Mayıs Yeni Medya Çalışmaları I.Ulusal Kongre Programı
In Uncategorized on April 6, 2013 at 09:28
Yeni Medya Çalışmaları I.Ulusal Kongre Programı belli oldu.
Resmi sayfa
YENİ MEDYA ÇALIŞMALARI
KURAM, YÖNTEM, UYGULAMA VE SİYASA
I. ULUSAL KONGRESİ
PROGRAMI
7 Mayıs 2013 Salı:
| 09.00-09.30 | Kayıt |
| 9.30-10.00 | Açılış Konuşmaları (D-7 Nolu Derslik):Prof. Dr. Hasan Akbulut (KOÜ İletişim Fakültesi)
Ali Rıza Keleş (Alternatif Bilişim Derneği ) |
| 10.00-10.45 | Davetli Konuşmacı (D-7 Nolu Derslik):Prof. Dr. Aydın Uğur (İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi) |
| 10.45-11.00 | Çay/Kahve Arası |
| 11.00-12.30 |
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| Altuğ Akın; Türkiye Çevrimiçi Alanında Güç Mücadelesi Ve Üç Tarz-I Muhalefet: Redhack, Alternatif Bilişim Derneği Ve Youtube Yasağı Karşıtı Bireysel Girişimler
Bora Ataman ve Özlem Erkmen; Ekolojik Taban Hareketleri Ve Yeni Medya: Türkiye’den Bir Örnek Olarak Karadeniz İsyandadır Platformu (Kip)
İdil Sayımer, Gamze Yetkin Cılızoğlu ve Selin Öztürk; Kamuoyu Oluşturma Sürecinde Dijital Aktivizm : Baskı Grubu Olarak HAYTAP’ın Sosyal Medya Çalışmalarına Yönelik Bir Analiz
Ali Özcan; Bir Dijital Aktivizm Örneği Olarak ‘Smart Mob’ |
Hürriyet Konyar; Gençliğin Yeni Kültürel Alanları: Facebook Ve Sosyal Simülasyon Oyunlar
Ayşe Gizem Erbuyurucu; Sosyal Medya Oyunlarında Gerçekliğin Kurgulanışı: Popmundo Oyunu
Tülin Sepetci; Yeni Hegemonik Söylem Alanı Olarak Dijital Oyunlar: God Of War 3 Örneği |
| 12.30-14.00 | Öğle Yemeği |
| 14.00-16.00 |
III. OTURUM |
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| Fatma Orhan Tahralı;Toplumsal Özgürleşme ve Internet
Burak Özçetin; Türkiye’de Hacktivizmin Politikası ve Poetikası
Besim Can Zırh;Siyasetimizde Yeni Bir Müessese: Taammüden Trollcülük
Derya Doğan; Yeni Medyada Demokrasi: Sosyal Medya İfade Özgürlüğü İçin Dost mu Düşman mı?
Sarphan Uzunoğlu; Yeni Medyanın Türkiye’deki Sınıfsal Sınavı: Prekarya Örgütlenmeleri Değişimi Sağlayabilir Mi? |
M. Gökhan Aslan; Yeni Medyanın “Yeni”liği Üzerine
Ali Vatansever;Transmedya Anlatım Ve İzleyiciden Kullanıcıya Evrim
Mehmet Emin Babacan;Yeni Medya Araçlarına İlişkin Metodolojik Bir Deneyim
Işık Barış Fidaner;“Postmodern” yabancılaşma için bir model önerisi
Aynülhayat Uybadın ve Nalan Mumcu; Diyalog 2.0: Yeni Medyanın “Öteki İle Ben” Diyaloguna Katkıları Üzerine Hermeneutik Bir Yaklaşım |
Gökçe Baydar; Gençlerin Gündelik Yaşamında Sosyal Medya: Ask.Fm Örneği
Salih Akkemik; Türkiye’de Facebook Ve Twitter Kullanıcıları Üzerine Bir Araştırma
Osman Köroğlu ve Aylin Tutgun Ünal; Öğretmen Adaylarının Sosyal Ağları Benimseme Düzeyleri İle Yalnızlık Düzeyleri Arasındaki İlişki
Nilüfer Sezer ve Nuray Yılmaz Sert; Öğretim Üye Ve Elemanlarının Sosyal Medya Kullanımı “İletişim Fakültelerine Yönelik Bir Araştırma”
A. Burak Kahraman;Olmayan Ülke Facebook: Üniversite Gençliği ve Facebook Kullanımı |
| 16.00-16.30 | Çay/Kahve Arası |
| 16.30-18.30 |
VI. OTURUM |
VII. OTURUM |
VIII. OTURUM |
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| Derya Tellan; Sayısal Uçurum: Erişilebilirlik ya da Sahiplik
Hakan Erkılıç ve Ayşe Gül Toprak; Kitlesel Fonlamanın Türkiye’de Belgesel Sinema Üzerindeki Olası Etkileri
Aslı Tosuner; İnternette Sosyal Sermaye Olarak Güven Oluşumunun Armağan Kültürü Bağlamında İncelenmesi: Zumbara Örneği
Ebru Yetişkin; ‘Beğen’ ve ‘Paylaş’: Yeni Medyaya Mikro-Sosyolojik ve Ekonomi-Psikolojik Bir Bakış
Okan Ormanlı; Türkiye’de IPTV Yayıncılığında Yerli İçerik Kullanımı
Erdem Alper Turan; Yeni Medya Kullanımının ve İçeriklerinin Konvansiyonel Medya İçerikleri Üzerindeki Etkileri |
Kübra Güran Yiğitbaşı;Sanal Medya “Gerçek” Gündem
Zeynep Özarslan; Yeni Medya Ortamlarında LGBT Bireylere Karşı Üretilen Nefret Söylemi
M. Selcan Kaynak ve Ayşe Hümeyra Ataman;Yeni Medya, Demokratikleşme ve Dijital Aktivism: WikiLeaks Belgelerinin Türkiye’de Tartışılma Süreci
Ferihan Özmen;İnternetteki Sağlık Haberciliğinin Magazinsel Boyutu
Nazan Yaman ve Nurcan Usta; Sosyal Medyanın Gündem Belirleme Etkisi: Üniversite Öğrencilerine Yönelik Bir Araştırma |
Gülüm Şener; Sosyal Ağlarda Mahremiyet ve Yeni Mahremiyet Stratejileri
Faik Uyanık; Sosyal Medya: Kurgusallık ve Mahremiyet
Merve Akdemir ve Gülçin Con; Sosyal Medya Kullanımının Sosyal İlişkiler Üzerindeki Etkisinde Kuşaklar Arası Farklılıklar
Fatih Üstün, Mehmet N. Aydın ve Robert Booth;Türkiye’de Gençlerin Twitter Kullanımı Araştırması |
| 19.00 | Akşam Yemeği |
8 Mayıs 2013 Çarşamba:
| 09.00-10.30 |
I. OTURUM |
II. OTURUM |
III. OTURUM |
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| Artun Avcı; İnternet Özgürlüğü ve Fikri Haklar
Duygu Hatıpoğlu Aydın;Piyasa İlişkilerinde İnsan Hakkı: Türkiye’de Bir İnsan Hakkı Olarak İnternete Erişim Hakkının Olanakları Ve Sınırları
Gürkan Özocak; Sosyal Medyada İşlenen Suç Tipleri ve Suçluların Tespiti
Sevgi Kayak; Kişisel Verilerin Korunması Kapsamında İstenmeyen Elektronik Posta
E. Gülbuğ Erol; Yeni Medya: Etik Ve Hukuk |
Günseli Bayraktutan;Siyasal İletişimde Sosyal Medya Kullanımı: Türkiye’de 2011 Genel Seçimleri Örneği
Mutlu Binark ve Tuğrul Çomu; Siyasal İletişim Pratiği Olarak Adalet Ve Kalkınma Partisi’nin (AKP) 2011 Genel Seçimlerinde Sosyal Medya Kullanımı
Gözde İslamoğlu; Siyasal İletişim Pratiği Olarak Cumhuriyet Halk Partisini’nin (CHP) 2011 Genel Seçimlerinde Sosyal Medya Kullanımı
Burak Doğu; Siyasal İletişim Pratiği Olarak Milliyetçi Hareket Partisini’nin (MHP) 2011 Genel Seçimlerinde Sosyal Medya Kullanımı
Aslı Telli Aydemir; Siyasal İletişim Pratiği Olarak Barış Ve Demokrasi Partisini’nin (BDP) 2011 Genel Seçimlerinde Sosyal Medya Kullanımı |
Burak Arıkan; Ağ Haritalama
Aydın Çam ve Ahmet Sarp Yılmaz; Papergirl: Yöndeşik Kültürün Bir Örneği Olarak Küresel Sanat Ağı Projesi
Berrak Coşkun; Anlamlı Anlamsızlık ve Sessizliğin Gücü
Serenay Şahin; Dijital Sanat, Arayüz ve Yeni İzleyici Profili
Ali C. Gedik; Yeni Medyada Müzik Teknolojisinin Yeni Sorunsalı: Müzik Bilgi Erişimi |
| 10.30-11.00 | Çay/Kahve Arası |
| 11.00-12.30 |
IV. OTURUM |
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| Hanife Güz; Sosyal Medya Pazarlama Faaliyetlerinin Pazarlama Etiği Açısından Markafoni ve Morhipo Online Alışveriş Siteleri Örneklerinde Analizi
Ayça Çekiç Akyol, Mevlüt AKYOL ve Alper Yılmaz;Yeni Medya Araçlarında Görsel İletişim: Otomobil Markalarının Sosyal Medya Kullanımları Üzerine Bir İnceleme
Nur Ündey Kalpaklıoğlu;Halkla İlişkiler Aracı Olarak Yeni Medya Uygulamaları |
Derya Erdem; Sosyal Medyada 12 Eylül Referandumu: Siyasal Söylem, Demokratik Bilinç, Etik, Siyaset ve Tartışma Kültürü
Şifa Elcil; Sosyal Medyanın İfade Özgürlüğü ve Kamuoyu Oluşumundaki Rolü
Fatma Nur Şen;İstanbul’daki İlçe Belediyelerinin Halkla İlişkiler Aracı Olarak Twitter Kullanımları Üzerine Bir Araştırma
Levent Memiş; Yöneten-Yönetilen Etkileşiminin Değişim Aracı Olarak Sosyal Ağlar: Belediye Ve Belediye Başkanları Facebook ve Twitter Kullanım Örüntüsü |
Saadet Sevinç Doğan;Ekşi Sözlük Özelinde Cinsiyetçilik Tartışması
Betül Yarar, Nagehan Tokdoğan Kartal, Ayşe Mirza, Çağrı Kaderoğlu Bulut ve Cevahir Özgüler; Yeni İletişim Teknolojileri Ve Türkiye Kadın Hareketi
Çağlayan Kovanlıkaya ve Birol Dinçel; Toplumsal Görünürlük Yoksunlarının Yeni Medya Görünürlüğü |
| 12.30-14.00 | Öğle Yemeği |
| 14.00-15.30 |
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| Ezgi Aydın; Kimlik Ve Hafıza Mekanı Olarak Twitter
Umur Bedir; Korku Nesnesi Olarak İnternet: Güvenli İnternet Tanıtım Filmi Örneği
Bayram Karakullukcu; Sanal Maske: Personanın Sosyal Medyadaki İzdüşümü
Nafiseh Zafarmand; Sosyal Medyanın Tv’de Nasıl Temsil Edildiğine İlişkin Bir Çalışma: Sosyalmedyatv Programı Örneği
Mehmet Haberli; İnternet Ortamında Toplumsal Formların Teşekkülü: Sanal Cemaat Örneği |
Deniz Yengin; Yeni Medyada Kullanılan Arayüzlerin Okul Öncesi Çocukların Görsel Hafızalarına Katkıları: i-pad Örneği
Çağlar Ekinci; Ezilenlerin Pedagojisi Ve Yeni Medya Kesişiminde Bir Örnek; Birumut Derneği’nin Yeni Medyadaki Yansımaları
Tuğba Asrak Hasdemir; MOYdan BİTe: Eğitim Serüveninin Neresindeyiz? |
| 15.30-16.00 | Çay/Kahve Arası |
| 16.00-17.00 | Sonuç ve Değerlendirme |
*Atölyeler ayrıca ilan edilecektir.
“Bobs’da oylama başladı!
In Uncategorized on April 5, 2013 at 12:02
Rüşvet vermek, sürü psikolojisi, kartpostal, örgü örmek, sağır-dilsiz alfabesi… Birbirleriyle ne ilgisi mi var? Bunlar, Bobs’un bu yılki toplam 364 finalistinden sadece birkaçı.
Bobs’un 15 üyeli uluslararası jürisi sizlerden gelen 4 bin 200’ü aşkın aday önerisini mercek altına aldığı üç haftalık hummalı bir çalışmanın ardından 14 dil ve 34 yarışma kategorisindeki finalistleri belirledi.
Top sizde!
Şimdi sıra sizde. Finalistlere bir göz atıp favorilerinizi seçin. Tüm kategorilerdeki kullanıcı ödülü sahiplerini sizin oylarınız belirleyecek. Unutmayın, yarışma kuralları uyarınca her kategoride 24 saatte sadece bir kez oy kullanabilirsiniz. Oylama süreci 7 Mayıs’ta sona erecek ve ödül sahipleri Berlin’de düzenlenenre:publica konferansında duyurulacak.
Uluslararası jüriyi ise Berlin’de yine hummalı bir çalışma bekliyor olacak. 4-5 Mayıs tarihlerinde Berlin’de bol kahve eşliğinde yapılacak jüri oturumunda altı ana kategorideki finalistler birer birer mercek altına alınıp jüri ödülü sahipleri çok turlu bir oylama sonucunda belirlenecek.
Jüri ödülleri, Bonn kentinde Deutsche Welle Global Medya Forumu’nda düzenlenecek törenle sahiplerini bulacak.
Şimdi bu yılki finalistlere bir göz atmaya ne dersiniz? Oyunuzu kullanın, sesinizi duyurun!
Cyberculture roundup: “The Life and Times of a TV Show Piracy Release Group”, CISPA behind closed doors…
In Uncategorized on April 4, 2013 at 23:35CISPA Debate Will Happen Behind Closed Doors
from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick
The Life and Times of a TV Show Piracy Release Group
from TorrentFreak by Andy
In recent decades TV shows have become woven into the lives of hundreds of millions of people but it’s only been during the last few years that they’ve done so from the online space.
Anonymous takes control of North Korea’s Twitter and Flickr accounts, defaces websites
from The Next Web by Jon Russell
Egypt’s Key Bloggers Face Absurd Legal Charges, Harassment
from EFF.org Updates by Jillian C. York
Alaa Abd El Fattah is under threat again. The Egyptian blogger, who spent more than a month in prison in 2011, missing the birth of his first child, has found himself the target of a new case. Last week, Abd El Fattah went voluntarily to the office of the prosecutor after hearing from the media that there was a warrant for his arrest for inciting “aggression” against members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The New Lingo You Need to Know for Facebook Home
from Wired Top Stories by Christina Bonnington
Facebook Home is a new way to experience Facebook on your Android handset. And when Zuck introduced this latest push into mobile, he threw out a whole bunch of terms we’d never heard before. Here’s what they mean.
Facebook introduces Home, a launcher for Android devices that puts people ahead of apps
from The Next Web by Ken Yeung
A Tour Of Facebook’s Home On Android
from All Facebook by Justin Lafferty
A Brief History of ‘Facebook Phone’ Rumors
from Mashable! by Amy-Mae Elliott
Using Crowdsourcing to Counter the Spread of False Rumors on Social Media During Crises
from iRevolution by Patrick Meier
My new colleague Professor Yasuaki Sakamoto at the Stevens Institute of Tech-nology (SIT) has been carrying out intriguing research on the spread of rumors via social media, particularly on Twitter and during crises. In his latest research, “Toward a Social-Technological System that Inactivates False Rumors through the Critical Thinking of Crowds,” Yasu uses behavioral psychology to under-stand why exposure to public criticism changes rumor-spreading behavior on Twitter during disasters. This fascinating research builds very nicely on the excellent work carried out by my QCRI colleague ChaTo who used this “criticism dynamic” to show that the credibility of tweets can be predicted (by topic) with-out analyzing their content. Yasu’s study also seeks to find the psychological basis for the Twitter’s self-correcting behavior identified by ChaTo and also John Herman who described Twitter as a ”Truth Machine” during Hurricane Sandy.
Round Up: All of Google’s jokes for April Fools’ 2013, from Google Maps treasure hunting to YouTube closing
South Korea and United States Are Planning Cyberwar Scenarios
from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick
Reselling Digital Goods Is Copyright Infringement, Judge Rules
from Wired Top Stories by David Kravets
A federal judge is declaring as unlawful a one-of-a-kind website enabling the online sale of pre-owned digital music files.
China’s lamest Facebook clone yet
from FP Passport by Isaac Stone Fish
You’ll never browse alone: Liverpool FC rolls out free WiFi for fans at Anfield stadium, a UK first
from The Next Web by Paul Sawers
Google’s Blink Q&A: New rendering engine will replace WebKit on all platforms in 10 weeks with Chrome 28
from The Next Web by Emil Protalinski
Nice one on Morozov’s rhetoric of contempt:
In Uncategorized on April 2, 2013 at 12:07Evgeny Morozov and the Rhetoric of Contempt
from The Meta-Activism Project by Mary
Evgeny Morozov is perhaps the most skilled contemporary practitioner of the rhetoric of contempt. He seeks to win arguments (and attention) by treating ideas he dislikes with scorn and ridicule and by treating their proponents with mockery and cruelty. He encourages this behavior in others. The exchange below, which happened earlier today, is a good example.
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Cyberculture roundup: Amazon buys my fav. Goodreads, Google’s patent move, “It’s Not Slacktivism if it Changes Culture”, Attack on Spamhaus…
In Uncategorized on March 30, 2013 at 13:34Amazon’s Plan to Own Writing and Reading Advances With Goodreads Buy
from Wired Top Stories by Marcus Wohlsen
Amazon looked back to its roots in bookselling and forward to its future as the global overlord of all human literary output by announcing its plan today to purchase social reading site GoodReads.
Amazon acquires social book site Goodreads in most obvious move ever
from The Next Web by Josh Ong
Google+ Integration Allows Domination Over Twitter
from social media vb by blaisegv
Google Plus recently overtook Twitter in terms of the number of active users. How? Google Plus has a number of killer features which are driving its growth and helping it steal precious attention away from the established social networks. Here’s a look at several of them.
Google Makes Open Patent Non-assertion Pledge and Proposes New Licensing Models
from EFF.org Updates by Daniel Nazer and Daniel Nazer
The flood of software patents has created an environment where companies are afraid that innovation leads to being hit by patent lawsuits. Every dollar spent fighting patent trolls and or waging patent wars is a dollar not spent researching, developing, and creating jobs. The situation is so bad that, in 2011, Apple and Google spentmore on patent litigation and buying patents than they did on research. So it’s no surprise that some companies are looking for new ways to navigate the patent system while promoting openness and innovation.
Google Erects Patent Shield for the Open Source Internet
from Wired Top Stories by Cade Metz
Behind the scenes, just about all of the web’s biggest names are mimicking Google. That includes Facebook, Yahoo, eBay, Twitter, and so many more.
Google announces patent pledge not to sue users, distributors, or developers of open-source software
from The Next Web by Emil Protalinski
Google’s New Open Source Patent Pledge: We Won’t Sue Unless Attacked First
from Mashable! by Christina Warren
Competition Seeks Next Generation of Cybersecurity Experts
from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick
How “Slacktivism” Revealed a New Political Map of America
from The Meta-Activism Project by Mary
The data scientists at Facebook – particularly Eytan Bakshy – have produced an excellent set of public analytics on Human Rights Campaign‘s equality avatar initiative, which some have called slacktivism. Facebook’s full report is here. Of the many graphics Facebook produced, the one below particularly caught my eye:
It’s Not Slacktivism if it Changes Culture
from The Meta-Activism Project by Mary
What’s the effect of changing your profile image?
On Tuesday the LGBT rights group Human Rights Campaign began encouraging supporters to change their Facebook avatars to a pink and red equals sign, their (temporary?) logo. In true generative fashion they have also adopted remixes of the logo, which they are displaying on their own site (see left) and they are using the increased awareness brought by the campaign, and by the gay marriage cases currently in the Supreme Court, to raise money for their organization. They’re a savvy bunch.
Researchers show method for de-anonymizing 95% of “anonymous” cellular location data
from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow
Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility, a Nature Scientific Reports paper by MIT researchers and colleagues at Belgium’s Universite Catholique de Louvain, documents that 95% of “anonymous” location data from cellphone towers can be de-anonymized to the individual level. That is, given data from a region’s cellular towers, the researchers can ascribe individuals to 95% of the data-points.
Internet apocalypse? In the next bag o’ chips
from Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza
Sam Biddle writes that this week’s epic, internet-shaking DDOS was a lie. Spamhaus was indeed under a record-size denial-of-service attack, but the protection company it hired, Cloudfront, turns out to be the only source of the bigger story that went with it: that the internet at large was significantly affected.
DDoS Attacks Are Not The Only Way To Disrupt the Global Internet
from Mashable! by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Inside the Biggest Cyberattack in History
from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick
Spamhaus is battling a 300 billion bits-per-second DDoS described as the ‘biggest attack in history’
from The Next Web by Nick Summers
The Attack on Spamhaus And Other News You Need to Know
from Mashable! by Stan Schroeder
8 Vendors You Didn’t Know Accepted Bitcoins
from Mashable! by Matt Petronzio
Global Internet Slowed by Massive Cyberattack Against One Company
from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick
DDoS storm breaks records at 300 Gbps
from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow
The Internet has been groaning under the weight of a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the Domain Name Service, apparently aimed at anti-spam vigilantes Spamhaus, in retaliation for their blacklisting of Dutch free speech hosting provider Cyberbunker. At 300 mbps, the DDoS is the worst in public Internet history.
Internet slowed by one of the largest cyber attacks ever seen
from Hurriyet Daily News
The Internet may have been slowed by one of the largest cyber attacks ever seen, which targeted a group that patrols the Web for spam, security experts said.
Congress’ New CFAA Draft Could Have Put Aaron Swartz in Jail For Decades Longer Than the Original Charges
from EFF.org Updates by Trevor Timm
Law professor and historian Tim Wu has called the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) the “worst law in technology.” The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has described the government’s interpretation of it “expansive,” “broad,” and “sweeping.” And Orin Kerr, former federal prosecutor and law professor, has detailed how the government could use it to put “any Internet user they want .”
FBI: Expanding Internet Snooping Powers a ‘Top Priority’
from Mashable!
Thousands Speak Out Against CISPA for Week of Action
from EFF.org Updates by Adi Kamdar and Adi KamdarLast Monday, a number of organizations, companies, and individuals came together for a Week of Action against the dangerous cybersecurity bill, CISPA. Though thousands of people answered our call to action, the fight is far from over.
Southeast Europe countries enhance protection measures after a surge in cyber …
Southeast European Times
In Turkey, government websites have been an ever-growing subject of cyber attacks from groups including RedHack, Anonymous and local hacker groups, which are reportedly targeting the country’s domestic and foreign policy moves. Last year the foreign
Blogs: Still Your Most Reliable Social Media Tool
from social media vb by bobbymarhamat
Social media is without a doubt a pivotal part of helping any new business grow. But in the maelstrom of social media options, many businesses are overlooking one of the most basic and important options at their disposal: blogging. Here are three key ways blogging is still a powerful tool.
How to Protect Yourself Against Identity Theft Online
from Mashable! by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
NATO Researchers Say Stuxnet Attack Was an ‘Act of Force’
from Mashable! by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Cyprus Gets World’s First Bitcoin ATM
from Mashable! by NowThisNews
Sweden scraps new word ‘ungoogleable’ after Google pressure
from Hurriyet Daily News
The Language Council of Sweden said Tuesday it had removed the word “ungoogleable”
GeoFeedia: Ready for Digital Disaster Response
from iRevolution by Patrick Meier
GeoFeedia was not originally designed to support humanitarian operations. But last year’s blog post on the potential of GeoFeedia for crisis mapping caught the interest of CEO Phil Harris. So he kindly granted the Standby Volunteer Task Force (SBTF) free access to the platform. In return, we provided his team with feedback on what features (listed here) would make GeoFeedia more useful for digital disaster response. This was back in summer 2012. I recently learned that they’ve been quite busy since. Indeed, I had the distinct pleasure of sharing the stage with Phil and his team at this superb conference on social media for emergency management. After listening to their talk, I realized it was high time to publish an update on GeoFeedia, especially since we hadused the tool just two months earlier in response to Typhoon Pablo, one of the worst disasters to hit the Philippines in the past 100 years.
U.S. Applies New Money Laundering Rules to Bitcoin, Defeating Its Purpose
from Mashable! by Geekosystem
Victory for Transparency: Microsoft Releases Report on Law Enforcement Requests for User Data
from EFF.org Updates by Eva Galperin
EFF has long called on companies to publish the number and type of government demands they receive for user data. We think it’s important enough to be one of the stars we award in our Who Has Your Back? campaign started in 2010. Users make decisions every day about which companies they entrust with their thoughts, photos, contacts, identities and location data. In order to make informed decisions users — especially those at risk from repressive governments or engaging in political activism — need to know how often the government is seeking that information from their providers.
How We’re Turning Digital Natives Into Etiquette Sociopaths
from Wired Top Stories by Wired Opinion
Cyber-savvy folks are arguing for such new etiquette rules because in an information-overloaded world, time-wasting communication is not just outdated ? it?s rude. Living according to the gospel of technological efficiency and frictionless sharing is fine as a Silicon Valley innovation ethos. But etiquette norms aren?t just about efficiency: they?re actually about building thoughtful and pro-social character.
Hackers Publish Turkish Mayor’s Phone Number in Tit-for-Tat Cyber Attack
from Global Voices Online by Baran Mavzer
A group of Turkish hackers who call themselves Redhack have published the cell phone numbers of Melih Gökçek, the mayor of Turkey’s capital city Ankara, and his security guard on Twitter in retaliation against the mayor for publicizing the cell phone number of a college student.
What is ‘ungoogleable’?
from BBC News | Europe | World Edition
What can and can’t be found with a search engine?
Virtual world’s future lies underground
Deregulating manholes represents the latest creative approach to the concept of ‘unbundling’ – forcing network companies to rent infrastructure
12 Nisan’da Türkiye’de İnternet 20 yaşına girecek. -8-21 Nisan’ı 16. “İnternet Haftası” -
In Uncategorized on March 28, 2013 at 12:10
“12 nisanda Türkiye İnterneti 20 yaş gününü kutluyor. Bilişim/Bilgi/İletişim STK’ları
olarak tüm internet gönüllülerinden, internetin önemini kavramış tüm yurttaşlardan
8-21 Nisan’ı 16. ”İnternet Haftası” olarak kutlamaya çağırıyoruz.
Bu konuda bazı öneriler ekteki katilim cagrisindadir.
olarak tüm internet gönüllülerinden, internetin önemini kavramış tüm yurttaşlardan
8-21 Nisan’ı 16. ”İnternet Haftası” olarak kutlamaya çağırıyoruz.
Bu konuda bazı öneriler ekteki katilim cagrisindadir.
Her gönüllüden gücü ölçüsünde katkı bekliyoruz. Ekteki bildirgeyi imza atmak isteyen
STK’lardan bize yazmalarını rica ediyoruz. Her web, blog sahibi haftanın logosu
ya da bannerlardan birini yayınlayabilir, ve webte Destekleyenler arasında listelebilir.
Her yurttaş, internete ilişkin internethaftasi.org.tr forumlarda
görüş ve önerilerini yazabilir.”
So did Anonymous hacked MOSSAD along with RedHack and Sektor 404 or not?
In Uncategorized on March 27, 2013 at 15:40Anonymous claims Mossad hack; experts not convinced
Infosecurity Magazine
The Mossad hack was first announced via Twitter, with comments from @YourAnonNews such as “NOW: #RedHack and #Anonymous engaging Israel, releasing dox on govt officials, military, police and politicians. #OpIsrael”, and “Mossad Hacked by
Anonymous, RedHack breach Mossad servers, hackers claim
GlobalPost (blog)
RedHack, a Turkey-based Marxist hacker group, specifically claimed responsibility for the release of the personal information, which included phone numbers, emails and addresses.RedHack said the information belongs to Mossad intelligence officers,
Anonymous-linked groups hack Israeli websites, release personal data
Washington Free Beacon
“The data was released by a hacker team going by the name of ‘The Red Hack,’ a Turkish group, while the direct denial-of-service attack targeted at Mossad was attributed to another group operating under the moniker ‘Sektor 404,’ RT reported.
Daily Beast
Hacktivists claim they breached Mossad computers – Anonymous, Sector404 and RedHacksay that they were able to hack Israel’s intelligence service’s mainframe on Friday. Claim they have obtained and leaked personal details of over 34,000 officers and
Don’t believe hack claims against Mossad’s website, expert says
The Times of Israel
Reports on several hacker websites said that Anonymous, along with the Turkish group TheRed Hack and the Arab group Sector404, both of which are allied with Anonymous, managed to break into the Mossad’s public website and steal several Excel .
Anonymous releases ‘records’ on Israeli officials
BizPac Review
The Official Website of National Intelligence Agency of Israel (www.mossad.gov.il) – Mossad Down by #Sektor404 and 30K Agents Info leaked by Anonymous, RedHack and PLF under the operation called #OpIsrael. They also provided this graphic:
Anonymous releases ‘records’ on Israeli officials
BizPac Review
The Official Website of National Intelligence Agency of Israel (www.mossad.gov.il) – Mossad Down by #Sektor404 and 30K Agents Info leaked by Anonymous, RedHack and PLF under the operation called #OpIsrael. They also provided this graphic:
Anonymous hacks Mossad site, releases agents alleged records
The data was released by a hacker team going by the name of “The Red Hack,” a Turkish group, while the direct denial-of-service attack targeted at Mossad was attributed to another group operating under the moniker “Sektor 404.” Anonymous previously
