Valentin Boanta has a lot of free time on his hands—five years worth, to be exact. That's because Boanta is currently serving a prison sentence for, according to Reuters, "supplying gadgets to an organised crime gang used to conceal ATM skimmers." So with all that time to think about what he's done, the apparently penitent prisoner spent six months developing an ATM add-on to prevent the exact crime that put him there in the first place. Read More >>

It's been a tough week for The Onion— it was hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army — but it really knocked this one home. Fart Scroll. Code to make your website fart. Read More >>

Following a Freedom of Information Act request by MuckRock, America's National Security Agency has been forced to make public a book it produced called Untangling the Web: A Guide to Internet Research. Understandably, it's full of gems. Read More >>

While fingers have long been pointed from US shores towards China when it comes to online attacks, the Pentagon has now directly accused the country's government and military of cyberespionage. Read More >>

There was McDonalds, and Jeep, and then CBS and the AP. Now E! Online has joined the illustrious club of Twitter accounts that have been hacked. The account has been suspended, but not before claiming that Justin Bieber came out as gay. Read More >>

A good Bitcoin mining rig is hard to find. They're expensive, they take up space, they wrack up huge energy bills. Not at all practical for your average ESEA gaming network employee. Nefarious code that turns 14,000 of your users into an unwitting personal bitcoin botnet? Totally doable. Read More >>

A Las Vegas District Court judge is currently weighing a big question that you may have opinions on: is exploiting a bug on a casino's video-poker machine illegal or not? Read More >>

Despite a locked bootloader and rumours to the contrary, it seems Samsung's latest Galaxy S4 flagship will get a touch of the Mod after all, probably because Steve "Cyanogen" Kondik has one himself. Great news for people who want to eradicate TouchWiz from their immense new quad-core-only smartphone. [CyanogenMod via Android Community] Read More >>

Google Glass has plenty of folks a little scared of being recorded in secret, but saying "OK Glass" and the recording light are kind of a dead giveaway. But a rooted pair of specs? Those could be a creeper's dream. Read More >>

When hackers do cyber-battle, there isn't much to see. Maybe you'll wind up on a crashed website, but the real carnage is happening behind the scenes, perpetrated by a diffuse army of computers a world away. This is what it looks like. Read More >>

As you may be hopefully unaware, today is Alice Day, a day inspired by Lewis Carroll's debated sexual attraction to Alice In Wonderland's very underage and very real counterpart, where proud pedophiles come together in celebration of their disorder. So it's a beautiful day for a NAMBLA takedown, and Anonymous was happy to answer the call. Read More >>

Twitter hacks are an unfortunate reality of every day social media life. Today, it was CBS's 60 Minutes and 48 Hours accounts that took the hit and started dishing out some linkbait-y tweets with a virus-laiden garnish. Careful what you click. Read More >>

Microsoft enabled two-factor authentication this morning. That's awesome, because two-factor authentication is a simple, cheap method of making yourself virtually hack-proof on the internet. And not enough people use it. Read More >>

Pirate Bay cofounder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been charged on suspicion that he hacked into a variety of companies, as well as fraudulently withdrawing money from the Swedish Nordea bank. Read More >>

Facebook Home, Mark Zuckerberg's latest attempt to gobble even more of our lives, hit the US last week. And while it's teasing us on Google Play, it's region locked. So, here's how to download and install it in the UK, and on pretty much any Android device too. Read More >>