‘Syrian Electronic Army’ claims to have attacked NYT, Twitter, Huffington Post… Facebook reports of government requests… Cyberculture roundup…

Facebook says 74 governments, including USA, demanded data on 38K users In the first half of 2013, agents of 74 different governments including our own demanded the personal data related to about 38,000 Facebook users. About half of these demands came from authorities in the United States. Facebook “is the latest technology company to release … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Thousands of NSA Privacy Violations exposed with New Snowden Documents… Blogger’s suicide site…

On Day of Suicide, Blogger Launches Site About His Life and Death Yahoo has taken down “Martin Manley: My Life and Death.” “After careful review, our team determined that this site violated our Terms of Service and we took it down,” a Yahoo spokesperson told Mashable in an emailed statement. New Snowden Documents Expose Thousands … Read more

E-Kitabımız çıktı: Hack Kültürü ve Hacktivizm

PDF İndir | LaTex İndir Işık Mater cep telefonlarında okunabilecek bir versiyon hazırladı burada: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jshclbnqh9abuix/hack-kulturu-ve-hacktivizm.epub Özgür Uçkan hoca da Kindle e-reader’lar için mobi dosyası yapmış: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3676007/hack-kulturu-ve-hacktivizm%20-%20Unknown.mobi Ahmet Sabancı bir blog postu hazırladı: http://ahmetasabanci.com/hack-kulturu-ve-hacktivizm-altbilisim-e-kitap/   Bir yıl önce gerçekleştirdiğimiz HackCon I etkinliği oldukça verimli tartışmalara vesile oldu. Her toplantıda olduğu gibi, süre kısıtı nedeniyle sözler biraz eksik kaldı. Bu kitap yarım … Read more

How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication on Twitter and other networks… A Cyberculture roundup…

How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication on Twitter (And Everywhere Else) Twitter rolled out two-factor authentication last week, joining a growing group of tech companies to support the important security feature. Two-factor authentication can help mitigate the damage of a password breach or phishing attack. Hacking overshadows closer US-China military ties U.S. National Security Adviser has … Read more

RedHack statement after the arrest of soldiers over leaked documents. @RedHack_EN

Turkish Government tries to hide their responsibility for the bombings in Reyhanli by arresting innocent soldiers   Officer in custody over leaks on Reyhanlı attack A gendarmerie officer suspected of leaking secret documents to a Turkish hacker group has been taken into custody, ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) spokesman Hüseyin Çelik has said as … Read more

#RedHack releases secret military documents related to Reyhanlı Explosions…

Here is the link in Turkish Secret Military Documents of Turkey’s Reyhanli explosion was hacked and Leaked online by RedHack

Cyberculture roundup: Four LulzSec hackers jailed…. Pirate Bay Co-Founder to Run For European Parliament… Google I/O Keynote

Four LulzSec hackers have been jailed for up to 32 months each by a UK court Four members of the notorious LulzSec hacker group have been sentenced in London today following a number of high-profile hacks and DDoS attacks affecting companies such as Sony Pictures, PBS and Fox.com in 2011 and 2012. Lulzsec?s Topiary: The … Read more

EFD Rights Watch: Excessive Pepper Gas usage… RedHack not a ‘terrorist group,’ prosecutors rule…

Police, Beşiktaş fans clash before last game and victory in historic Istanbul stadium Fans of Istanbul’s Beşiktaş football team and police clashed only hours before the last gameat the to-be-demolished İnönü Stadium. BIA Media Monitoring 2012 / Full Text from Bianet :: English Murdered journalists, imprisoned journalists, releases, attacks, threats, obstructions, investigations and trials; defamation … Read more

U.S. Financial Regulator onto Bitcoin…Megaupload vs. US Gov’t… A guide to staying anonymous online..Linkedin is 10

U.S. Financial Regulator Considering Setting Rules for Bitcoin from Mashable! by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai   U.S. Govt. Attack on Megaupload Bears Hallmarks of ?Digital Gitmo? from TorrentFreak by Robert Amsterdam Digital Gitmo, by Robert Amsterdam New Zealand is celebrated worldwide for its human rights. Renowned as being the first country in the world to grant suffrage … Read more

Anonymous raises $54,798 to start Your Anon News news site… EFF explains Who Really Opposes CISPA… Cyberculture roundup…

Anonymous raises $54,798 through Indiegogo to kick-start its dedicated news site for Your Anon News from The Next Web by Nick Summers     Who Really Opposes CISPA? from EFF.org Updates by Rainey Reitman In a hearing earlier today on the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), Representative Mike Rogers dismissed the opposition … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Insult over Twitter as criminal offense, The Court states…Stressful moments in gaming, political tech fails, big data issues… …

Turkish court recognizes insult over Twitter as criminal offense from Hurriyet Daily News An Istanbul court has judged a Twitter user?s insult toward a Turkish model to be a criminal offense.   Russia’s #1 Netizen Heads to Trial from Global Voices Online by Kevin Rothrock Pussy Riot, eat your heart out. Later this week, on … Read more

#OpIsrael Imagery Anonymous vs. Israel today. @theRedHack

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Cyberculture roundup: Anonymous launches massive cyber assault on Israel #OpIsrael

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, … Read more

Just another fiasco at the Turkish Judiciary: the Judge claims not to have found any experts on the Redhack (@theRedHack) Trial…

and thus some innocents kids remain in jail as the trial proceeds in a Kafkaesque manner… Here the news in Turkish. Expression Freedom in Turkey: Struggle, Abuses Resume Bianet Redhack launched a petition campaign over the social media regarding the hearing of theRedhack Case at the Ankara 13th High Criminal Court (26 November). bianet’s article series, “Murdered … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: The Guardian piece on Hackers, Germany on Amazon probe, Bitcoin, Google Glass…

How Hackers Changed the World and Meet the Izzards ? TV review The Guardian Anonymous famously deployed its collective muscle in the cause of WikiLeaks and the Arab spring, but since then affiliated groups such as Lulzsec have strayed into actions that some Anonymous members find either merely malicious or ethically dubious Germany probes Amazon’s … Read more