US Supreme Court Hands Cyberstalkers a First Amendment Victory
Plus: Hackers knock out Russian military satellite communications, a spyware maker gets breached, and the SEC targets a victim company’s CISO. Powered by...
Gary Bowser: How a 1980s Hacker Became Nintendo’s Nemesis Decades Later
More than forty years ago in the early eighties, Texas Instruments home computers were all the rage. The world wide web didn’t exist yet and most people interested in these new devices saw themselves as tinkerers or hackers. These original ‘hackers’ tried to put the hardware to use in ways that others hadn’t envisaged. This was also the case for a Canadian teenager named Gary Bowser, who founded the company “Oasis Pensive Abacutors”...
Over 900 RARBG Magnet Link Repos Anonymously Nuked From GitHub
The most dependable things in life tend to be the things most easily taken for granted. In the piracy ecosystem, that certainly applied to torrent site RARBG. RARBG was never likely to win any prizes for being the best-looking site with bleeding-edge features. Nor would its operators hope to win any. What the site did was what any indexer of any content should strive for; plenty of well-organized and readily searchable content, all of...
