You know how you're not supposed to give your personal information to random people you meet on the Internet? Well, 75% of IT workers and hackers did just that, when researchers posed as the sexy lady above.
Bruce Raisley, the 48-year-old former volunteer with 'Perverted Justice' (better known as the organization that works with the NBC show To Catch a Predator via hidden camera investigations) who was convicted six months ago of "launching a malicious computer program designed to attack computers and Internet sites", has…
"Where are the lady geeks?" asks Fast Company blogger Jeffrey To. Over the course of six months, he attended dozens of hackathons, and found that women were sorely underrepresented.
Anonymous, the formidable hacker group responsible for many an e-shenanigan, has informed Fred Phelps' gay-hating, soldier-picketing Dickchurch that they're on thin ice. An excerpt from the letter written from the hackers to the church reads,
It's now cool to be a programmer again. But the reasons for our renewed interest in the lives of computer whizzes go deeper than The Social Network.
Sorry to put a damper on your raging Cameron Diaz obsession, but McAfee Inc. reports Cameron, Julia Roberts, and Jessica Biel are the celebs criminals use most often to lure people into visiting malicious websites that can steal your passwords.
In this clip from a 1993 episode of Ghostwriter, Julia Stiles sports a gigantic nose ring and asks, "Do you know anything about hackers? Can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace?" [Videogum]
Sunday night hackers accessed the Pink Chaddi Campaign Facebook page, and changed its name to "Pro-Abortion, Baby Killing Feminist Whores and Manginas". They suspect that the internet-vandals were American. Reminder: misogyny knows no borders. [WomenMakeNews]
