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Microsoft says that the Mevade botnet, which recently spiked traffic on Tor, is actually a variant on an older click fraud botnet that has been flying under the radar for 2 years

US officials have revealed that Iran has hacked US Navy computers. According to the WSJ, The Iranian hackers were able to tap into a "network that is used for e-mail and the service's internal intranet."

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We didn't do it live this week, but boy did we record a great show for you! Brian, Dana and Peter piped in from their respective empty closets sound booths to discuss Amazon's latest Kindle Fires and Microsoft's updated ...

Icefog, a Mac version of Windows malware, is a year old but only recently discovered by Kaspersky. It was used experimentally in the far east, bundled with the legitimate program Img2icns.

National Security Agency dips into its database of phone and e-mail info to create complex "social graphs" for foreign intelligence purposes, says a report. Some American citizens get swept up in the effort.

Facebook, the world’s largest social network, says that its goal with the News Feed is that to deliver the right content to the right people at the right time. It adds that the company’s goal with the ads that it sho...

Last Saturday, we told you about how there's a gigantic AT-ST Walker for sale on Ebay right now. It's still there, but why sell such a masterpiece in the first place? Because your girlfriend is freakin' sick of having it...

Apple’s iPad has long dominated the tablet market. It is by far one of the most insanely popular tablets available in the market, demand for Apple’s slate has skyrocketed since 2010 when the original iPad came out. H...

As Google celebrates its 15th birthday, we think its as good a time as any to look at the scope of the search giant More than 1.1 billion people use Google search each month, making 114 billion searches. Google's Android...

A New York man who was fined $2400 for renting a room in his condo to two Russian tourists will get his money back, following a new ruling that will add to the debate about the sharing economy and short term rentals.

Researchers are improving the first nanoscale MRI technique developed at MIT in 2009 in the hopes of imaging such biological samples as viruses at extremely high resolution.

New submitter physicsphairy writes "Tomas Mikolov and others at Google have developed a simple means of translating between languages using a large corpus of sample texts. Rather than being defined by humans, words are c...

Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto 5 was released last week to insane demand and the PlayStation Network, through which the game was being digitally distributed, had a tough time coping up with it. Multiple reports of downloa...

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak admits he has enjoyed many adventures in hacking often for the sake of pranks on friends and family, especially back in his college days and during the early years of working on computers a...

This year's Operation Smile gala brought grins to the faces and tears to the eyes of attendees. While event host Brooke Burke-Charvet shared touching details about her recent goodwill medical mission, honorees Kate Walsh...

Breaking Bad isn't just an award-winning drama — it's also a five-season PSA for the dangers of meth. While using the drug can lead to a host of nasty physical side effects, becoming part of the meth trade can lead to ...

Just how does the NSA piece together all that metadata it collects? Thanks to "newly disclosed documents and interviews with officials," the New York Times today shed light on how the agency plots out the social activity...

Dyson has some kick-ass vacuum engineers, but even the most passionate vacuum designer needs a little break now and then. That's why Dyson's team took a break to work on something completely different for a change of pac...

Here's a question. Forced to decide, would you rather have a patent troll breathing down your neck, or cuddle up with an entity just as ghoulish that's living under a bridge? The FTC wants your thoughts on the matter, ev...

The longer you've been wrapped up in the internet, but more crazy stuff you've seen. Everybody's got one or two really strange, totally bizarre website they like to trot out; they're like trading cards for web nerds. Now...

Palo Alto is an ideal place for electric vehicles when it's full of wealthy, tech-savvy executives. It only makes sense, then, that the city council has voted in favor of a proposal requiring that new homes include wirin...