In recent news the use of "botnets" has come to the light and now we are getting an interesting look at this big business that affects the media to benefit the few. Surprisingly many of these botnets originate from purchasing a kit, a famous one being the Zeus kit which starts off in its basic form for only a few thousand; pretty cheap for any company to utilize for their own benefits. Yet if the use of these kits is too complicated for the buyer to use they can instead buy the services of someone to do it for them... Continue reading

Currently the war of protest has started to take a new form using the Internet, mainly in the form of mass communication and hacking. In recent news the hackings that have been committed have led to in some cases serious problems like NASA being hacked and the CIA site going offline; then there is the positive side that these hackers have used this to unveil the corruption in many places like the Federal Reserve. The most recent hacking being NASA's computers by Chinese IP addresses, which during the hack they had full control over the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) files.... Continue reading

Technology is constantly evolving so much so that even now it is able to help the blind to utilize braille even with touch screens becoming ever so largely used. Currently researchers at Georgia Tech created an app that utilized touch screens and only six buttons to type using the braille writing system. This definitely is a big boom to the media because if this app can really aid in keeping the blind up with the rest of the world it opens the door to even more. With an article from BBC they quoted Mr. Romero saying, "A lot of equipment... Continue reading

Google has announced that after March 1st they will imply changes to the privacy settings to allow data to be shared over all of their platforms. Yet with this announcement there has already a lot of criticism as well as accusations over bypassing safari, and the urgency to stop the privacy policy change. With all of these problems it seems like Google's attempt to better their platforms against their competitors may actually backfire. As seen in a BBC article from January the author quoted Google's director of privacy, product and engineering Alma Whitten who said, "We're rolling out a new... Continue reading

I don't exactly remember when, but there has been a boom in nature and animal related tv which poses an interesting question to me; This question being how the animals are being treated in these tv shows and movies? While on this search for the answer i stumbled apon an article on BBC which talked about HBO's new show "Luck" and how it was attacked by animal rights groups over two horses dieing during production. As i read further i also noticed that prior to the horses deaths PETA, an animal rights group had "repeatedly reached out" to give proper... Continue reading

Hey we all feel that deep sigh when we are on the line in a grocery store and the cashier says a ridiculous price for the goods you are about to buy. Yet when I turn on my TV a show called Extreme Couponing is on and it portrays people getting $1000 dollars in grocery’s to a measly 100. Yet is this show really portraying the truth, or is it just stretching the truth. In an article by Brian Wheeler he talks about the fad that the show has created and discussed how the fad has influenced smarter spending. Kimberly... Continue reading

The big social networking site Facebook has finally started prepping for their public switch, with their plan to sign papers with the US financial "Watchdog" on Wednesday. This public change will has been predicted to rise in the company's overall value by 10bn. The buzz about this has been circulating since the announcement last year. According to The Wall Street Journal with the 10bn rise in value the company can reach a total of 100bn. Facebook spokesman Larry Yu stated, "We're not going to participate in speculation about an IPO." which relates to the hotbed of discussion over the Facebook... Continue reading