Android Smartphones And Tablets Coming To US Government, Military

Android seems to be the operating system of choice when it comes to the US government and military. They've managed to create an operating system that is highly secure and is capable of sending highly classified data ... continue

Hacker Arrested After Stealing Confidential Information From NASA And Pentagon

A Romanian hacker by the name of Razvan Manole Cernaianu, also known by his nickname TinKode, was arrested after he hacked into NASA and Pentagon. Governments take hacking very seriously as for one, confidential information is hidden on ... continue

Megaupload Founder Had 18 Vehicles Seized, Rather Ironic License Plates

Megaupload, a file hosting service, was recently shut down due to piracy. The founder, Kim Dotcom who's real name is Kim Schmitz, was arrested, as were several executives. Authorities seized Kim's property including 18 vehicles under the belief ... continue

Megaupload Founder Hid From Police Inside Panic Room

When New Zealand based Megaupload was shut down this week it sparked outrage from the likes of hacktivist group Anonymous but the real trouble lay with website founder "Kim Dotcom" who had his home raied by New ... continue

LightSquared Interrupts 75% of GPS Services

Trouble is again brewing for wireless internet provider LightSquared.  Government reports show the provider of 4G LTE spectrum services disrupt up to 75% of all GPS services including cellphones, boats and planes. In light of recent controversies ... continue

U.S. Government Pays Dead People $120 Million Per Year

It pays to be dead. No seriously  it really does pay to be dead, at least that seems to be the case for now deceased federal workers who are being paid to the tune of $120 million ... continue

Never mind the poker sites, the US government seizes 82 domains

This is getting a little more than heavy handed to say the least but much of the news in the last couple of days has been centered around the seizure of poker sites and their assets by ... continue

Planned Parenthood: We Aren’t Going Anywhere, Despite Government Efforts

In what can only be described as a bitter battle, Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards today announced that the organization is not going anywhere, despite Republicans threatening to shut down the U.S. government over the company's federal ... continue

CIA launches WTF- ‘Wikileaks Task Force’

The Central Intelligence Agency is not surprisingly keeping an eye on Wikileaks, creating a "Wikileaks Task Force." (Known within the agency simply as "WTF.") The WTF's job is to comb through the hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables ... continue

United States wants to put Wikileaks back in the bottle – Good luck with that.

In the follow up to Wikileaks making files available for anyone in the world to mirror Marshall Kirkpatrick from ReadWriteWeb did some checking over on Pirate Bay to see how well the torrents for the Wikileaks files ... continue

Government data, our data, now held by Google

I ran across this little tidbit of news over the Christmas holidays and it amazes me that more people aren't asking if what is being reported is something we really want to see happening. You see Google has ... continue

US Government cracks down on online poker, freezes player winnings

The US Government has started a new crack down on online poker, freezing accounts that handle the winnings of thousands of players. The Poker Players Alliance says that the US Attorney for the South District of New York ... continue