We are very proud and happy to announceThe Next Web Conference 2011today! This sixth edition will be held on27, 28 and 29 April, 2011in the heart of the European technology scene (well at least for that week) in the city we all love so much:Amsterdam. The Next Web Conference has become a must for everyone for whom the Web and Mobile plays a significant role for their businesses. Last year we welcomed 1000+ guests from over 30 countries and 25 Startups launched their company on main stage....

Anonymous and LulzSec have published a statement aimed at the FBI and ‘International law authorities’, in response to an article that appeared on National Public Radio (NPR) yesterday, titled:FBI Tries To Send Message With Hacker Arrests. The statements in the NPR article were made by deputy assistant FBI director Steve Chabinsky, and were seemingly aimed at Anonymous and Lulz Security, to which the two ‘hacktivist’ groups have now responded. The FBI’s comment they seem to have taken umbrage at was this:...

Online ‘Hacktivist’ gathering Anonymous claims it has breached the security of intergovernmental military alliance NATO. In a tweet from the @AnonymousIRC account, itannounced: Yes,#NATOwas breached. And we have lots of restricted material. With some simple injection. In the next days, wait for interesting data :) Asubsequent tweetclaims that the group is “sitting on about one Gigabyte of data from NATO now, most of which we cannot publish as it would be irresponsible....

Anonymous, the online hacktivist group, has released thousands of names, email addresses, home addresses and phone numbers believed to be from myBart.org, an independent site that uses BART’s (San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit)open data services. The hacking is part of a carefully planned effort by Anonymous to bring BART to its knees in retaliation for its shutdown of cell phone service Thursday night at some of its stations to disrupt planned demonstrations over a police shooting....

Anonymous, the online hacktivist group, has taken over theSyrian Ministry of Defense website(currently down) and posted the following message on its homepage: “To the Syrian people: The world stands with you against the brutal regime of Bashar Al-Assad. Know that time and history are on your side – tyrants use violence because they have nothing else, and the more violent they are, the more fragile they become. We salute your determination to be non-violent in the face of the regime’s brutality, and admire your willingness to pursue justice, not mere revenge....