November 4, 2015 Lulzsec hacktivist Jeremy Hammond pleads guilty in hacking case A self-described anarchist and "hacktivist" from Chicago pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges he illegally accessed computer systems of law enforcement agencies and government contractors.
November 4, 2015 FBI quest for smartphone data will fuel privacy battle In the battle over how much access law enforcement should have to your smartphone, don’t expect the government to be outsmarted without a fight.
November 4, 2015 US Marshals will auction off over $11 million in Bitcoin Scheduled to take place on March 5, 2015, the United States government will be placing another 50,000 Bitcoin on the auction block in segments of 2,000 and 3,000 Bitcoin.
November 3, 2015 Poll: More Americans against Sony’s cancellation of 'The Interview' The results of a poll published Monday indicate that among Americans who have an opinion on the matter, more are opposed to Sony Pictures’ decision to cancel the release of "The Interview" than in favor of it.
November 3, 2015 Is Microsoft helping NSA spy? Conspiracy theorists and suspicious security experts have said for years that Microsoft cooperates with the National Security Agency, handing over reams of data to help the NSA decrypt communications.
November 3, 2015 Could revelations about NSA spying make us less secure? No matter where the debate about freedom, democracy and the Constitution goes from here, the leaked information concerning the National Security Agency's various secret surveillance programs including Prism is going to have some immediate fallout.
November 3, 2015 Malware fuels growing suspicion that North Korea hacked Sony Pictures The destructive malware that infected Sony Pictures’ network last week was written in Korean, a source familiar with a recent FBI alert told Fox News, further fuelling suspicion that North Korea launched the cyber attack.
October 22, 2015 Darknets: Murky recesses of the hidden web The Brazilian police investigation that cracked a high-tech child porn ring earlier this month has shone a spotlight on the darker recesses of the web, an area which still poses massive technology challenges to law enforcement.
October 22, 2015 Reuters' Matthew Keys charged with aiding hackers Anonymous in 2010 A prominent social media journalist allegedly fed Tribune Company server logins to the Anonymous group of hackers in 2010, and authorities say at least one of the hackers used the information to sabotage part of the Los Angeles Times' website.
October 22, 2015 North Korea suffers second Internet outage North Korea's Internet was down again on Tuesday, according to monitoring specialist Dyn Research, with the blackout coming hot on the heels of Monday's widespread nine-hour outage.
