Over a month ago, the “Guardians of Peace” hacking group began stealing sensitive information from Sony Pictures Entertainment, and crippling the company’s systems. Now, Sony is reportedly using Amazon Web Services, the online retailer’s cloud computing branch, to execute Denial of Service — or DoS — tactics to counterattack the hackers. The hackers claim to […]
Read MorePlenty of people enter the occasional sweepstakes on a whim, but according to a recent article on Racked.com, there are others who take sweepstakes entry much more seriously. They call themselves “sweepers,” and have formed an online community of people who make entering sweepstakes practically a full-time job. They don’t have it down to a […]
Read MoreInfluenza, commonly known as the flu, is a viral infection that attacks the body’s respiratory system, including the throat and lungs. While a vaccine exists to protect people against this ailment, the flu is still a threat to many, particularly the extremely old and young, as well as those with compromised immune systems. For this […]
Read MoreBy the end of 2014, copyright holders had made 345 million requests to monolithic search engine service Google in the hopes of having content taken down that they claimed infringed upon their rights as owners, according to a summary of Google’s weekly transparency reports from Torrent Freak. Though Google honored many of these requests, the […]
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