Following LulzSec’s defacement of The Sun on Monday, the FBI swooped down on Anonymous and arrested 16 people in several states for allegedly attacking PayPal. A federal indictment against 14 of the arrested accuses them of launching a Ddos (denial of service) against PayPal after it closed... Read more...
Early Facebook investor and Paypal cofounder Peter Thiel thinks college is overhyped. Now he's giving 24 kids a tempting alternative to higher education. Thiel is going to pay some big-dreaming teenagers $100,000 over the course of two years to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams. His pool... Read more...
PayPal Inc. is suing Google and two of its executives -- accusing them of stealing trade secrets and poaching employees -- in a move that ups the stakes as the two companies vie for a piece of the fast-growing mobile payments market. The suit, filed in a Santa Clara County federal court, came h... Read more...
The Pentagon said Tuesday it had requested an investigation into a hacker group's reported cyber threat against a military base that is being used to hold a US soldier suspected of giving documents to WikiLeaks. Pentagon spokesman Colonel David Lapan said the probe was requested after news th... Read more...