We take a look at the shockwaves caused by Obama's support for gay marriage, and consider the looming threat of cyber attacks on major infrastructure and institutions. Finally, a somewhat personal royal collector's item goes under the hammer.
A number of Jihadist web forums have reportedly been hit by a cyber-attack. US Republican candidate Rick Santorum engaged in some Obama bashing. And 8 sets of quadruplets cause mischief in the streets of New York.
The wave of protests against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has reached Poland. Activists say it is an attempt by governments to take control of cyberspace, and a threat to their freedom. The Polish government insists it is necessary to protect intellectual property. While the EU and eight other countries have signed the document, it is in Eastern Europe that the text has raised the most heckles.
The Chinese government is cracking down on the country's most popular microblogs in an effort to prevent any Facebook or Twitter-inspired revolution spreading to China. As of mid-March, users of Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, will be forced to register their microblogs under their real name. But with 250 million Chinese people logged on, it's unlikely the government can clamp down completely.
France's Senate will vote later in January on a controversial bill to outlaw denial of the 1915 Armenian Genocide in Turkey. The proposed law, which sparked fury in Turkey, was passed by the Lower National Assembly in December.
The websites of the French Senate and a National Assembly lawmaker who introduced a bill that would outlaw the denial of the 1915 Turkish ‘genocide’ of Armenians, have been attacked by Turkish hackers.
Cyber-security experts have unveiled one of the biggest computer hacking campaigns to date, releasing a list of 72 organisations whose networks were attacked over a five-year period. Victims include the UN and several governments.
British police said Wednesday they had arrested an 18-year-old suspected as the spokesman for the high-profile Lulz Security hacking group that shot to fame after breaching websites of several international companies, including Sony.
The rogue "hacktivist" group Lulz Security, which hacked the websites of Sony, the CIA and other targets, announced Saturday it would disband with one final data dump that would include internal documents from AOL and AT&T.
The International Monetary Fund has fallen victim to a sophisticated cyber attack, apparently carried out by a nation state hoping to maintain a “digital insider presence” on the internal network.
