Critics of the page called it an example of New Zealand's underlying rape culture.
After four rounds of nude selfie leaks, actress Jennifer Lawrence has broken her silence on what happened. She called the hacking incident a sex crime, not a sex scandal. Even just merely viewing the naked images is tantamount to perpetuating a sexual offence, she insisted.
The nude selfie leaked photo scandal continues to hound celebrities, this time round 4 of Fappening including naked men. Besides the usual hackers' favourites such as Jennifer Lawrence, Ariana Grande and Kim Kardashian, round 4 now has Winona Ryder and Nick Hogan, the son of wrestler Hulk Hogan, whose leaked photos were seen on message boards 4Chan and Reddit.
With his patented crotch grab pose, music icon Michael Jackson would have been the perfect endorser of a new viral trend to promote a testicular cancer awareness campaign if he were still alive. Using the hashtag #FeelingNuts, the campaign has tapped celebrities to have a photo of themselves grabbing their private parts and then challenging others to do the same in the tradition of the highly successful Ice Bucket Challenge that raised over $100 million.
A Twitter war has started after Gunther Gettinger, the EU commissioner designate of Digital Economy and Society blamed the female celebrities on Monday in Brussels for the furor that their leaked nude selfies caused. He was quoted by BBC as saying, "IF SOMEONE IS dumb enough as a celebrity to take a nude photo of themselves and put it online, they surely can't expect us to protect them."
Nestle Fitness launched a campaign to remind women to have regular check-ups to help prevent breast cancer. By hiding a secret camera in the female model's bra, the company discovered that males too are "checking out" the model's mammary glands by way of stares or hidden glances.
With almost every Australian above the age of 10 owning a mobile phone, payphones have become a relic of the past, as useless as the pager. But telco giant Telstra has taught of a brilliant way to recycle these things by converting them into Wi-Fi hotspots.
Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong caused the closure on Monday of Standard Chartered and other banks in the administrative region. It were not just over-the-counter services that were closed, even ATMS and cash deposit machines in some areas were also affected.
Filipino boxing champ Manny Pacquiao opted not to dignify the "Miss Pac Man" post of rival Floyd Mayweather Jr on Instagram and Twitter wherein Money May included old photos of Pacquiao's loss to Mexican boxer Juan Manuel Marquez.
The nude leaks are back and it does not have naked images of male celebrities as speculated but still female personalities. Actress Jennifer Lawrence continues to lead the list of celebrities with photos in this third batch with 55 images.
Facebook's new policy to accept only real names has alienated transvestites.
The Australian government is considering creating the post of a commissioner who will work on children's "E-safety."
The words pornography and ethics may often not be seen together, but a former Google programmer and porn producer Colin Rowntree created a porn search engine that aims to be different from similar existing engines by being ethical.
A news regarding Gmail accounts that are being compromised by hackers, but the news now is that the internet giant Yahoo was threatened by the U.S. Government to disclose information of Yahoo users.
The new iPhone 6 from Apple, which launches on Tuesday, Sept 9, would use near field communication (NFC) and tokenisation technologies for payment initiatives. The iWatch would also offers the two technologies, the Web site Bankinginnovation.net cites sources from the Cupertino-based firm.
Customer of Spark, a broadband provider in New Zealand known before as Telecom, said that it had fixed the meltdown on its system that had affected its Internet and mobile platforms on Satuday.
When entertainment personalities are involved in sex scandals, it would not necessarily destroy their careers or reputation since a lot of actors and actresses are known for their sex adventures.
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Holdings starts on Monday, Sept 8, its roadshow for the company's initial public offering (IPO) expected to raise as much as $24 billion, documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday showed. The roadshow kicks off in New York.
Internet leaders from different parts of the world have gathered in Istanbul, Turkey for the ninth annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). The global economy in relation to cyberspace, unemployment rate, human rights violations, as well as protection of the children’s welfare in the Web are among the topics being discussed at IGF 2014.
Ministers from 5 European nations are about to ink an agreement that would lead to a roaming free zone in the region, the Montenegro Ministry of Telecommunications said.
Although eight-division title holder and Filipino congressman Manny Pacquiao is known for his boxing skills, the past few days had the 35-year-old boxer dabble in other sports.
The suspect in the hacking of the nude selfies of Hunger Games actress Jennifer Lawrence has been named. An Australian newspaper identified the suspected hacker as Bryan Hamade who, according to his brother Andrew, is now scared to turn on his mobile phone.
Clayton Utz an Australian law firm has developed an app for Smartphones called "The Dawn Raid App".
Also known as the "Original guy" by other users, Bryan Hamade, a software designer from Georgia was identified for stealing and leaking the nude photos of the Jennifer Lawrence.
A Reddit user thought that he could replicate the success of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge in raising funds for a health issue by suggesting on Monday to other Redditors who had seen the nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence to donate money to charity.
The scandal created by the nude photo leak of actress Jennifer Lawrence has brought to public attention the Internet-age phenomenon of the nude selfie since it showed that the A-list actress didn't just took a few snaps but at least 60 images, based on what the hacker got from iCloud.
The naked photos of Jennifer Lawrence, Ariana Grande, Kate Upton and Victoria Justice posted on imageboard site 4Chan are just the tip of the iceberg. The anonymous hacker who got the images through Apple's iCloud says he has over 100 more photos of other Hollywood A-Listers.
Smart and responsible organisations nowadays, use different kind of tools to secure sensitive data such as credit card numbers, Social Security numbers or its customers’ personal and proprietary information. Microsoft Office 365 now has these necessary features and allow users to search sensitive data on SharePoint and OneDrive.
Two weeks ago, 19-year-old college student Therese Todd from Silver Spring was nominated for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, and she complied. Unfortunately, her challenge was an epic failure because the big water container with icy water inside fell from the porch while water was being poured and the blue container hit Todd on the head.
A study by business consultant McKinsey & Co brought out the possibility that China's e-commerce market would soon outpace that of the U.S. very soon. It forecasts that the Chinese market will grow between $420 billion and $650 billion by 2020.
