'News Of The World' Hacking Victim Speaks Out
The media giant News Corp. announced yesterday that it would close its most successful tabloid paper, News of the World, over claims its journalists hacked the private phones of celebrities, crime...
View ArticleMurdoch Closes 'World' As Scandal Broadens
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch will close Britain’s most popular newspaper, The News of the World, in a bid to prevent the outrage over the tabloid’s phone hacking scandal from infecting the other news...
View ArticleNews Corp Investors Sue Over Hacking
A group of News Corp shareholders is suing the company over the phone-hacking scandal that led to the company shutting down its British news paper, News of the World.Led in part by New York-based...
View ArticleMurdochs Refuse to Testify Before Parliament
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his son James — also a News Corporation executive — are refusing to appear before the British Parliament's Commons Culture Select Committee to respond to allegations of...
View ArticleUS Lawmakers Call for News Corp. Investigation
The fallout from the News of the World hacking scandal seems far from contained this morning, as U.S. lawmakers call for an investigation into whether any American laws were broken during the alleged...
View ArticleNews Corp. Legal Troubles Come Under New Scrutiny
As a phone-hacking scandal extends from British tabloids to Scotland Yard, Rupert Murdoch's history of dealing with legal challenges in the U.S. has come under scrutiny. In the past five years,...
View ArticleArrests and Resignations Continue in News Corp. Hacking Scandal
It has been another another weekend of unbelievable twists and turns in the News Corporation phone-hacking scandal. On Friday, Les Hinton, chairman of Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal...
View ArticleHow I (Easily) Hacked Into Voice Mail
First, I hacked my own voice mail. Then, when colleagues came around to see, several volunteered their phones, too.With a few clicks of a mouse, we accessed our mobile phone voice mails from a desktop...
View ArticleShould News Corp.'s Minor Shareholders Have More Power?
Rupert Murdoch and his family control most of News Corp. through their majority of voting shares. But there are other, smaller shareholders that speak up when they see something amiss in the practices...
View ArticleWhat's a Hacker Anyway?
We hear from Douglas Rushkoff, media theorist and author of, most recently, Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age, on News of the World, Anonymous, and just what "hacking" is in 2011?
View ArticleTransport Layer (In)Security
This week has been hack week here at On The Media. We've written about the Paleolithic history of hacking: the jargon file and phone phreaking – but to round out the week, it’s time for some...
View ArticleReady For The Next Big Internet Crisis
The motivations of hackers are often obscure. The motivations of the handlers at the Internet Storm Center—the people who stand ready to battle the latest internet malady—are a little easier to...
View ArticleJames Murdoch to Step Down at News International
James Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch, has stepped down as executive chairman of News International, the British arm of News Corporation. Murdoch and his role at News International have come under...
View ArticleHackers Face Federal Charges for Global Attacks on Businesses, Governments
Five computer hackers who allegedly attacked government organizations and businesses around the world are facing federal charges after their ringleader pleaded guilty last August.Law enforcement...
View ArticleRichard Clarke on Stuxnet and Cyber-Security
This story has all the trappings of a spy novel, or a James Bond film. Espionage. International intrigue. Underground nuclear development. It would make for quite a work of fiction...except that this...
View ArticleWatching You
Laura Poitras, documentary filmmaker, National Security Administration whistle-blower William Binney, and Jacob Appelbaum, computer security researcher, privacy advocate, hacker, and human rights...
View ArticleReporters Unwittingly Exposing Sources
Journalists have become increasingly reliant on digital technology in their work, but weak or nonexistent digital security measures open their sources to risk of exposure. Brooke speaks to journalist...
View ArticleMat Honan's Epic Hacking
In the space of just a few hours, hackers managed to remotely delete Wired reporter Mat Honan's iPad, iPhone, even the hard drive on his computer. Brooke talks to Mat about the surprisingly simple...
View ArticleHacking the New York Times, Tweeting Revolutions, and More
How The New York Times fell victim to Chinese hackers, a survey of our digital file sharing habits, and a conversation with NPR senior strategist Andy Carvin on tweeting revolutions.
View ArticleThe New York Times Gets Hacked
As a technology reporter for The New York Times, Nicole Perlroth says it's hard to convince corporations to go on the record with the details of their cybersecurity breaches. But last October, when The...
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