The members of LulzSec have breached a number of sites for major corporations and government agencies. Why? Apparently because they find it entertaining. They’ve even offered to help Sega track down those responsible for the recent hack of Sega Pass.

Bitcoins had been trading at high prices. Then one person lost 25,000 Bitcoins and a Bitcoin exchange was breached. Now there are calls for legitimizing exchanges.

LulzSec has breached a number of networks and released thousands of IDs and passwords to anyone who wants to “prank”. They apparently don’t see anything wrong with what they’ve done, regardless how much hassle it causes to you, and don’t care if anyone catches them.

The malware is being called Infostealer.Coinbit. It targets Windows devices and goes to the standard location for a Bitcoin wallet. Then it takes your coins. The advice is to encrypt your wallet and use a strong password to keep the bad guys out.

Google’s new reputation-management tool, Me on the Web, tracks postings about you and offers ways for you to control that information. The tool can be found on the Google dashboard along with account information.

There are now apps that let you “create” something you can sell as a Kindle book. It lets you tweak a cover design so you can “create” and publish 10 or 20 ebooks in a day. Not that anyone would want to read what you’ve put together.

Marmalade 5.0 SDK lets developers write apps in standard C++ and deploy from a single code base as native applications to iOS, Android, WebOS and a range of other platforms.

In the future, if you want a video of a live event, you may actually have to buy it. Apple is working on a system where infra-red sensors at a venue would shut down the camera on your cellphone.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is planning to deploy bots to track down people who aren’t reporting all their income. The bots will trawl through such sites as Google and eBay to find taxable activity.

BitCoins are virtual currency that can be traded for real, hard cash. A user claims that someone stole 25,000 BitCoins from their computer with an estimated cash value of $500,000.