Secrets and lies SOCIAL media may have brought millions of people together, but it has torn many others apart. Once, bullies taunted their victims in the playground; today they use smartphones to do so from afar. Media reports of “Facebook suicides” caused by cyberbullying are all too common. Character assassination on Twitter is rife, as are malicious e-mails, texts and other forms of e-torment. A recent review of the academic literature on cyberbullying suggests—conservatively—that at least a quarter of school-age children are involved as either victim or perpetrator. A new generation of smartphone apps is unlikely to help. With names like Whisper, Secret, Wut, Yik Yak, Confide and Sneeky, they enable users to send anonymous messages, images or both to “friends” who also use the apps. Some of the messages “self-destruct” after delivery; some live on. But at their heart is anonymity. If you are bullied via Facebook, Twitter or text, you can usually identify your at...
anonymous After temporarily knocking out the government website for the auction of properties of overindebted Greeks last week, the local branch of the international hacker-activist group Anonymous threatened to target banks and the healthcare provider EOPYY. The group claimed responsibility for disrupting the Bank of Greece’s website on the weekend, and said they would bring down the websites of Piraeus Bank and EOPYY. In a message posted on Twitter on Monday, Anonymous Greece claimed to have access to the databases of both Piraeus Bank and EOPYY. “One wrong move and everything will be made public and used against you,” the hackers said in an apparent reference to planned property auctions.
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: North Korean hackers stole a vast cache of data, Including classified wartime contingency plans jointly drawn by Washington a nd seoul, when they breached the computer network of the South Korean. Military last year, a South Korean lawmaker said Tuesday. One of the contingency plans contained the South Korean military’s plan to r emove the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, referred to as the “decapitation” Plan, should war break out on the Korean Peninsula, the lawmaker, Rhee Cheol-hee, told reporters. Rhee, a member of the governing Democratic Party who serves on the defense c ommittee of the National Assembly, said he only recently learned of the scale of The North Korean hacking attack, which was first discovered in September last year. It was not known whether any of the military’s top secretswere leaked,althrough Rhee
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