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  Hackers steal over $12,000 of Bitcoins from transaction broker Bitinstant

  By Nathan Ingraham on March 8, 2013 03:41 pm + 39 comments

  Online institutions of all types are vulnerable to hacking, and Bitcoin is no exception: last week, Continue reading…

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  The Pirate Bay's move to North Korea is probably more satire than fact

  By Carl Franzen on March 4, 2013 07:03 pm + 24 comments

  The Pirate Bay published a blog post today claiming that it has relocated to a "new provider" in Continue reading…

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  Russia, China, and other nations draft proposal to give ITU greater influence over the internet

  By Chris Welch on December 9, 2012 03:52 pm + 80 comments

  A proposal introduced Friday at the World Conference on International Telecommunications would lend Continue reading…

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  284 Pakistani domain names reportedly hijacked, affecting Google, Apple, and Microsoft

  By Louis Goddard on November 24, 2012 12:31 pm + 38 comments

  More than 280 popular ".pk" domain names, including that of the Pakistani Google homepage, have Continue reading…

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  Go Daddy denies Anonymous involved in site outage: 'it was not a denial of service attack'

  By Adi Robertson on September 11, 2012 12:10 pm + 39 comments

  Yesterday saw a major outage for GoDaddy.com and domains it helped host, keeping many sites offline Continue reading…

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  Apple suggests developer workarounds for in-app purchase fraud, promises fix in iOS 6

  By Dieter Bohn on July 20, 2012 07:03 pm + 78 comments

  With one document to iOS developers, Apple has both confirmed the method for stealing in-app iOS Continue reading…

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  PSA: Thousands of DNSChanger malware victims could be knocked offline today

  By Tom Warren on July 5, 2012 05:04 am + 11 comments

  Despite repeated notifications from Google, Facebook, and internet service providers, thousands of Continue reading…

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  ICANN awarded control of internet's underlying address system for up to seven more years

  By Adi Robertson on July 3, 2012 08:56 pm + 20 comments

  ICANN, the body that manages everything from IP addresses to top-level domains, will keep control of Continue reading…

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  ICANN re-opens application system for generic top-level domains

  By Jeff Blagdon on May 23, 2012 05:45 am + 7 comments

  ICANN is re-opening its generic top-level domain application system. The announcement comes 40 days Continue reading…

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  Anonymous planning new DNS amplification tool for large-scale attacks

  By Andrew Webster on March 8, 2012 04:03 pm + 11 comments

  Anonymous has made a name for itself with attacks on everyone from the Syrian government to the D Continue reading…