Twitter hit by 'sophisticated' cyber attack
Twitter said Friday it was hammered by a "sophisticated" cyber attack similar to those that recently hit major Western news outlets, and that the passwords of about 250,000 users were stolen.
03 February 2013
Wall Street Journal says also hit by Chinese hackers
The Wall Street Journal said Thursday its computers had been hit by Chinese hackers, becoming the latest US media organization to report an effort to spy on its journalists covering China.
01 February 2013
Facebook lets friends send gift cards
Facebook on Thursday began letting social network members in the United States send friends gift cards for purchases at participating shops or restaurants.
YouTube confirms eyeing subscription 'channels'
YouTube confirmed on Wednesday that its evolution as an Internet stage for video may include subscriptions to content that creators believe people will pay to see.
31 January 2013
Google unveils detailed N. Korea map... with gulags
Weeks after its chairman Eric Schmidt's secretive visit to North Korea, Google has rolled out a detailed map of the isolated state that even labels some of its remote and infamous gulags.
29 January 2013
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Hacker group Anonymous downs US government site
Hacker group Anonymous said it disabled the US Sentencing Commission's website Saturday in revenge for the death of Internet freedom advocate Aaron Swartz, and vowed to release government data.
27 January 2013
Web inventor says governments stifling net freedom
The inventor of the World Wide Web warned Friday that government control is limiting the possibilities of the Internet, as dozens of countries and businesses signed a cybersecurity deal at the Davos forum.
26 January 2013
US braces for 'six strikes' anti-piracy program
A new voluntary system aimed at rooting out online copyright piracy using a controversial "six strikes" system is set to be implemented by US Internet providers soon, with the impact unclear.
26 January 2013
'Gangnam Style' earns $8 mn for YouTube: Google
Google said Tuesday that the YouTube page showcasing the "Gangnam Style" video by South Korean rapper Psy has reaped more than $8 million in ad revenue.
23 January 2013
Apple, Google chiefs face grilling on 'no-poaching'
Apple chief Tim Cook and Google chairman Eric Schmidt are expected to face questioning in a lawsuit accusing Silicon Valley giants of secretly agreeing not to "poach" one another's workers.
19 January 2013
Facebook search taps into friends
Facebook's new "graph search" feature is designed to take straight-forward questions and tap into users' circle of friends for answers.
17 January 2013
The challenge of Googling North Korea
What is one of the world's most prominent advocates of Internet freedom doing in a country where unregulated access to information is generally either impossible or criminal?
09 January 2013
An Italian teacher who kills celebrities on Twitter
Fidel Castro, Mikhail Gorbachev and Pope Benedict XVI -- Italian Tommasso Debenedetti has killed them all in fake tweets aimed at exposing shoddy journalism that have earned him global notoriety.
US holiday season online spending climbs
Industry tracker comScore on Thursday reported that US shoppers spent a total of $42.3 billion online during the year-end holiday season -- a 14 percent jump from the same period in 2011.