From TeaMp0ison hackivist to ISIS: US drone strikes British citizen
British citizen Junaid Hussain, an ISIS hacker who was once charged with stealing Tony Blair’s personal details, has been killed by a US drone strike in Syria.
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Private I: Trust and verify for network certificate roots
In a post on March 23, Google's security team explained that it had discovered that someone was delivering digital certificates to users for Google domains that weren't authorized by Google. A quick investigation discovered that a Chinese certificate authority (CA), CNNIC, had improperly given a reseller enough power to create verifiable certificates for any domain in the world.
Glenn Fleishman | 27 Mar | Read more
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Infamous Zotob virus author 'Diabl0' arrested in Thailand on phishing charges
On-the-run hacker Farid Essebar, best known for writing the 2005 Zotob worm using the handle ‘Diabl0', has been arrested by police in Thailand on new charges connected to phishing Swiss online banking sites.
John E Dunn | 20 Mar | Read more
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Tech built to find missing aircraft not always used
Aviation experts have cited multiple possible reasons for the problems in the multi-country effort to locate the Malaysia Airlines jetliner that dropped off the grid over the South China Sea four days ago.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 11 Mar | Read more
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CNN's Twitter and Facebook accounts hacked
A number of CNN's social media accounts and blogs were hacked Thursday by a group styling itself as the Syrian Electronic Army.
John Ribeiro | 24 Jan | Read more
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Opinion: The Petraeus scandal and computer ethics
Last week Gen. David Petraeus, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, resigned in response to what has turned out to be a much bigger scandal than it first appeared.
Mark Gibbs | 20 Nov | Read more