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Celebrity hacker Guccifer leaks “Sex and the City” author’s new book

A former senior politics reporter for the Daily Dot, Kevin Collier focuses on privacy, cybersecurity, and issues of importance to the open internet. Since leaving the Daily Dot in March 2016, he has served as a reporter for Vocativ and a cybersecurity correspondent for BuzzFeed.

Kevin Collier

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Is it time to start taking the Syrian Electronic Army seriously?

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An interview with LulzCart, Romania’s most notorious hacker

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The hacker teen queen of Anonymous pleads guilty in London

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How is Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer tweeting from prison?

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Hacker uncovers even more George W. Bush paintings

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Hacker rifles through Colin Powell’s personal email

Florida State student hacks Wi-Fi, sends entire campus to Meatspin

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China denies sponsoring hacking attacks against U.S. companies

Mike Fenn is a former contributor to the Daily Dot whose beats included Reddit, YouTube, and all things WTF. His work has also appeared in Forbes and News.com.au.

Mike Fenn

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Writer increases online productivity by hiring someone to slap him in the face

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Hacker takes over Garbage’s Twitter account, poses as drunk Shirley Manson

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Encyclopedia Dramatica suffers minor outage

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A scathing Twitterer’s triumphant return

Dave Copeland is a tech reporter whose work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and ReadWrite. He teaches journalism at Bridgewater State University.

Dave Copeland

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Twitter hit by account hijackers

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