The hackers and engineers of Y Combinator are doing what hackers and engineers do to any industry, they’re efficiently and ruthlessly disrupting the traditional model of venture capital and are going to destroy far more more wealth for their contemporaries than they create for themselves, as broadband did to entertainment, Craigslist did to newspapers, and Amazon did to traditional retailers.
– WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 20 at 1:58 pm PT
Big as they were, the attacks carried out in revenge for the Megaupload arrests accomplished nothing significant.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 1 at 3:22 pm PT
How scary was the Internet in 2011? It depends on what you consider scary. News of attacks, some silly, some downright chilling, created uneasiness all year.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 26, 2011 at 7:34 am PT
The hackers of Anonymous are at it again, attacking the servers of intelligence think tank Stratfor, and then using the pilfered credit cards to give money to charities.
Siobhan Gorman, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on December 21, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
A group of hackers in China breached the computer defenses of America’s top business-lobbying group and gained access to everything stored on its systems, according to several people familiar with the matter.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 2, 2011 at 5:45 am PT
A nasty security vulnerability in Java is likely to cause headaches at large companies with lots of PCs, because installing a fix takes a lot of time.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 30, 2011 at 11:45 am PT
No, a hacked HP printer can’t burn down your house or office, but HP has a fix in the works anyway.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on November 11, 2011 at 5:46 am PT
You know that smartphone you just got that you use to check your office email? The one the guy in the IT department grumbled about? IBM wants to give that guy one less thing to complain about.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 2, 2011 at 6:09 am PT
A planned campaign by the hacking troupe Anonymous against a Mexican drug cartel is called off. The threat of getting arrested is one thing. The all-too-real threat of getting killed is quite another.
