The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 6/4: ex-hacker Adrian Lamo, who turned in Bradley Manning, testifies at trial; social media’s influence on vandalizing of the nation’s parks; the challenges of teens/tweens and social media; hackers targeting
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/30: Google’s chairman investing millions in consulting firm staffed by Obama’s former data analytics team, blog booby-trapped with malware after Vietnamese blogger arrested, Facebook to launch verified pages, trends in
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/28: Chicago Anarchist Jeremy Hammond Pleads Guilty to Stratfor Hack, Pakistani court orders blasphemy block on social media, man sentenced for internet extortion scheme against University of Pittsburgh, US weapons
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/24: Syrian Electronic Army Hijacks Another News Outlet, the dark side of social media, FTC goes after company for lax security that let hundreds of thousands of credit-card numbers get
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/22: Hacker releases names of South African whistleblowers, cops respond to Israeli blogger’s social media rant, sexting controversy at Indiana school, 10 Reasons To Worry About The Syrian Electronic Army,
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/21: Threats from Anonymous shut down Gitmo’s Wi-Fi, teens using Facebook less, social media is front line during disasters, Twitter toilet prank lands student in trouble, Teen Mom 2 star
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/17: Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Financial Times, social media and soldiers, social media may come back to haunt HS athletes, CA school system blames social media for potential suicides spike,
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/16: Infamous LulzSec Hackers Get Jail Time, viral video star ‘Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker’ arrested in connection with NJ killing, trolls attack Angelina Jolie over mastectomy, social media nabs prostitute
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/15: British LulzSec hackers await sentencing this week, police in China pursue blogger for White House petition, publisher threatens to sue blogger for $1billion, latest coach-student sexting scandal, ZPanel official
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/14 include: an FBI briefing of banks on DDoS attacks shares classified intelligence, an epic social media meltdown, an underground escape for a Bahrain blogger, social media anxieties and creeper
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/7 include the latest celebrity SWATting, terror on social media, Saudi prince’s take on blocking social media, AP tells staffers not to retweet rumors, Ohio’s social media hero, OpUSA cyberattack,
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/2 include the divorce of the Daily Beast and Howard Kurtz, lefty dirty tricks and Facebook, a sick webcam hacker and a disgruntled company hacker, social media and marriage, hoax
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/1 include several major hacking incidents, the Boston bombing and Russian social media, medicine meets Twitter, update on Anonymous-linked court case, spyware, revenge porn, and video game piracy. Summary of
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 4/30 include Twitter’s response to media outlet hackings, a blogger’s “chunky” faux-pas, bomb threat via Instagram, the AP hacker speaks, other hackings and cyberstalking, FBI busts a sextortion plot against
Two high profile incidents over the weekend kept law enforcement on their toes as Congressman Mike Rogers (R-MI) and CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer became the latest targets in the potentially deadly tactic known as SWATting. Rogers, who is Chairman of
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 4/26 include a hacking arrest, new cyberattack, Snapchat sexting investigation, social media flash mob crackdown, Bradley Manning, death threat texts, Redditor lawsuit, copyright reform proposal, and DRM and the next
The FBI announced Thursday that an indictment has been unsealed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia charging a former US federal employee with conspiracy to commit espionage for Cuba. The indictment had remained under seal since February
A protester from the St. Paul’s Occupy camp in the UK has accused a member of the Anonymous hacker collective of raping her on two occasions in the camp. 45 year old Malcolm Blackman, described as a member of Anonymous
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 4/24 include sexting quandaries, a blogger facing threats, the AP Twitter hack, Facebook and the ricin case, SWATting on steroids, Wikileaks’ court win, webcam spying denied, violent video game legislation,
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 4/23 include a social media hacking that plunged the stock market, more #FreeJahar truthers, a young Republican’s alleged sextortion scandal, more on swatting, hackers exploiting social media, another high profile
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 4/22 cover the dark and crazy sides of social media, an odd blogger, journalist ethics, an internet blackout, a DMCA takedown, and gamers meet pizza. Summary of stories: the success
The weekend’s top stories in social media and technology for 4/21 cover a CISPA internet blackout, hacking and hijacking on Twitter, social media-driven journalism, swatting, DDoS attack, news punking, and skyscraper gaming. Summary of stories: another call from Anonymous for
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 4/17 include crowdsourcing the Boston bombings investigation with Reddit and 4Chan, social media’s role in news (when news outlets get the news wrong), another celebrity SWATting, Anonymous hacktivists take on
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 4/16 focus on the impact of social media and cell service in times of disaster, the lasting sometimes ill-effects of sexting, recent hacking threats and issues, free speech and online
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 4/15 feature social media and its impact on the Boston Marathon tragedy. Also included: a Turkish pianist convicted of insulting Islam on Twitter, social media’s role in a Pulitzer Prize
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 4/12 focus on SWATting, cyberbullying in sexual assault cases, bad social media and texting behavior, hacking and botnet warnings, a blogger related legal fight, and a couple of interesting gamer
Yesterday, I wrote a piece at The Conversation titled, Hints of Prior Attacks As Reports of Progress Kentucky’s Role in McConnell Recording Surface. Go and read it if you haven’t already, then come back to this post. I want to
Reports surfaced Thursday that two founders of the liberal political action committee Progress Kentucky are behind the recording of a private February meeting held at Senator Mitch McConnell’s Kentucky campaign headquarters. Speaking to the local NPR affiliate in Louisville, Kentucky,
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 4/10: Ryan Seacrest is the latest SWATting victim, social media safety tips from the woman whose photo was used as Manti Te’o’s fake girlfriend, teens are changing their Facebook usage,
Radio personality and TV host Ryan Seacrest is the latest victim today in the seemingly never-ending string of SWATtings. Let’s revisit, for a moment, shall we? Miley Cyrus, 8/1/2012 Ashton Kutcher, 10/7/2012 Justin Bieber, 10/10/2012 Simon Cowell, 11/26/2012 Tom Cruise,
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 4/9: Four LulzSec hackers plead guilty in court, social media dances on Thatcher’s grave, vandalism to rocks and archeological sites at Joshua Tree National Park was encouraged by social media
A reporter from FOX News could go to jail if she refuses to name the confidential sources cited in an article she authored about Colorado movie theater shooter, James Holmes. Last July, as news outlets across the country were reporting
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 4/5: Justin Timberlake SWATted, family pleads for jailed Saudi blogger, member of Anonymous arrested in Australia, hacker ‘Weev’ is tweeting from prison, telephone hack that could cripple your 911 service,
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 4/4 include multiple stories of high profile hackings, a future hacking planned against Israel on Holocaust Memorial Day, pop-star Rihanna was SWATted, a huge NYC gang bust thanks to criminals
The hacker collective Anonymous has been busy attacking North Korea for the last few days, and Thursday, a faction apparently hacked into the Twitter and Flickr accounts of Uriminzokkiri, one of the isolated nation’s primary propaganda websites. Uriminzokkiri’s Flickr account
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 4/3 include: Aaron Swartz prosecutors are receiving graphic threats and one has had his Facebook hacked, Embassy Cairo shuts down its Twitter feed after Muslim Brotherhood spat, a Facebook group
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 4/2 include: the epic court hearing in the case of infamous copyright trolls Prenda Law, man’s Facebook hookup turned out to be a heist, Should Tweets Cost You Your Job?,
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 4/1 include: an Egyptian TV satirist facing charges of insulting President Mohamed Morsi and denigrating Islam tweets from the courthouse (and some of his tweets are funny), Netflix’s hilarious April
The weekend’s top stories in social media and technology for 3/30 and 3/31 include: Google plays an April Fool’s Day prank, an entire town’s ban on social media (or is it?), the resignation of the Chicago Mayor office’s social media
Today’s top stories in social media and technology for 3/28 include: BioShock Infinite creator doesn’t believe in Utopias, the inside story on the ‘biggest attack ever’ on the internet, Greta Van Susteren’s tale of her real life stalker, updates on