January 2, 2015

· Two members of the Lizard Squad jailed
· Sony offering discount after DDoS attack shuts them down at Christmas

January 3, 2015

· FCC may vote on net neutrality next week
· Bing and Yahoo go dark Friday night

January 5, 2015

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· Google announces GoogleCast to stream audio (Video)

January 6, 2015

· Apple unlocking the iPhone

January 7, 2015

· Banking malware targeting German speakers
· NASA finds habitable planets

January 8, 2015

· Apple sales skyrocket

January 9, 2015

· CryptoWall evolves to avoid detection
· Think you can beat this computer at poker?

January 10, 2015

· Anonymous declares war over Charlie Hebdo attack

January 12, 2015

· Silk Road kingpin faces 20 years
· Android smut usage the highest
· ISIS claims U.S. Central Command Twitter hack (Video)

January 13, 2015

· None too bright smuggler

January 14, 2015

· Three students fall victim to sextortionists
· Google Translate gets smarter

January 15, 2015

· Google squashes malvertising attack
· Blackberry and Samsung deny acquisition talks

January 16, 2015

· Teen arrested in U.K. over hack of Sony and Xbox
· Mt.Gox kingpin accused of being Silk Road Dread Pirate Roberts

January 17, 2015

· Hackers for hire

January 18, 2015

· Installing computer programs on an individual's computer without consent is now illegal in Canada

January 19, 2015

· Thieves tunnel into iPhone warehouse
· Minecraft usernames and passwords leak online

January 20, 2015

· Lizard Squad hackers hacked
· False positives costly to businesses

January 21, 2015

· Official WhatsApp imposes 24 hour ban on WhatsApp Plus users
· Facebook to show fewer hoaxes in news feed
· Edward Snowden: iPhone has special tracking software
· Five points that President Obama alluded to in his State of the Union speech that refer to the tech world.
· Healthcare.gov shares info with third party tracking sites

January 22, 2015

· Minecraft usernames and passwords leak online (Updated)
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· Password sharing considered a felony under proposed hacking laws

January 23, 2015

· Ransomware leads teen to hanging
· Hacker gets five years and fine of $890,000 (Video)

January 26, 2015

· How hackers infiltrate a system and remain undetected
· Lizard Squad hits Malaysia Airlines website
· Apple brings back free iTunes

January 27, 2015

· Facebook outage an internal glitch, not a hack by Lizard Squad
· Twitter adds Group Direct Messages and Video Editing (Video)
· New ransomware spreading by emails

January 28, 2015

· YouTube to use HTML5 in place of Flash as default playback

January 29, 2015

· Comcast does it again: Changes customer name to A**hole
· Silk Road kingpin hears drug dealers testimony

January 30, 2015

· Porn site serves up Trojan (Duh)
· FCC wants faster broadband speeds

January 31, 2015

· Facebook trojan masked as Flash update infects 110,000 users within 2 days
· Google expands bug bounty program
· Google Earth Pro for free