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Hacker Adrian Lamo testifies at WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning

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The hacker who alerted federal authorities to the alleged leak of classified documents by Pfc. Bradley E. Manning testified Tuesday that the young Army analyst never indicated any desire to help U.S. adversaries by releasing the material.

Anthony Pell
Jun 06, 2013

Liberty Reserve shut down, founder arrested

US federal prosecutors have unsealed the indictment of seven men who were allegedly involved in the Costa-Rica-based digital currency and exchange service, Liberty Reserve. Authorities in the US had already seized the service's domain, effectively shutting down its web site

Alex
May 29, 2013

Holder Signed Off on Warrant Identifying Fox News Reporter as Criminal Conspirator

Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on the controversial warrant application that the Justice Department used to obtain the personal emails of a Fox News reporter.

Alex
May 28, 2013

LulzSec Hackers Sentenced In London

LulzSec Hacker "Topiary" famously tweeted: "You cannot arrest an idea." Perhaps not, but in the case of Topiary, revealed to be Jake Davis, now 20, you can be sentenced to 24 months in a "young offenders institute" for two counts of conspiracy to impair the operation of a computer, to be followed by a five-year serious crime prevention order that can restrict where he can travel and which jobs he'll be allowed to take.

Anthony Pell
May 17, 2013

How a Career Con Man Led a Federal Sting That Cost Google $500 Million

Whitaker began by explaining his business

Pooja Shah
May 15, 2013

Tough Times at Homeland Security

A new wave of cyberattacks is hitting American companies at a particularly vulnerable time for the Department of Homeland Security, the federal agency charged with fending them off.

Pooja Shah
May 15, 2013

Fed offensive fueling hacker underground, report says

The U.S. government is contributing to the Internet's underground economy by scooping up hacker tools to incorporate into offensive cyber weapons, a report from Reuters says.

Dave Wreski
May 15, 2013

The US government might be the biggest hacker in the world

The United States government is investing tens of millions of dollars each year on offensive hacking operations in order to exploit vulnerabilities in the computers of its adversaries, Reuters reports.

Dave Wreski
May 13, 2013

Intelligence Analysis and the Connect-the-Dots Metaphor

The FBI and the CIA are being criticized for not keeping better track of Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the months before the Boston Marathon bombings. How could they have ignored such a dangerous person? How do we reform the intelligence community to ensure this kind of failure doesn't happen again?

Dave Wreski
May 07, 2013

Accused 'SpyEye' hacker in court

An Algerian national implicated in the cybercrime consortium behind the SpyEye hacking software has appeared in court after a three-year manhunt that ended with his arrest in Bangkok.

Alex
May 06, 2013

Microsoft hit with competition complaint over Windows 8 UEFI Secure Boot

A Spanish Linux software group has filed a complaint against Microsoft to the European Commission over its controversial implementation of UEFI Secure Boot for Windows 8 hardware.

Alex
Apr 22, 2013

Former LulzSec member gets prison sentence for Sony Pictures hack

Cody Andrew Kretsinger, a 25-year-old man from Decatur, Illinois, was sentenced Thursday to one year in federal prison for his role in a May 2011 breach of a Sony Pictures website and database.

Anthony Pell
Apr 19, 2013

Hacker gets a year in prison for Sony attack

A hacker who pleaded guilty to taking part in an extensive computer breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment has been sentenced to a year in prison, followed by home detention, US federal prosecutors said.

Anthony Pell
Apr 19, 2013

LulzSec Hackers Plead Guilty To CIA, Sony Attacks

Three men admit in London courtroom they launched distributed denial of service attacks and defacements that targeted a variety of websites.

Anthony Pell
Apr 11, 2013

Spanish Linux users launch legal challenge to Microsoft

Hispalinux, a Spanish association representing Linux users and developers, has filed an EU complaint against Windows 8

Anthony Pell
Apr 01, 2013

Infamous Hacker Weev Sentenced to 41 Months in Jail for AT&T

He'll also have to pay AT&T $73,000 in damages. Andrew Auernheimer, better known by his pseudonym

Dave Wreski
Mar 19, 2013

Feds Say Man Deserved Arrest Because Jacket Said

A Florida man deserved to be arrested inside the Supreme Court building last year for wearing a jacket painted with

Anthony Pell
Mar 04, 2013

Supreme Court Thwarts Challenge to Warrantless Surveillance

A divided Supreme Court halted a legal challenge Tuesday to a once-secret warrantless surveillance project that gobbles up Americans

Anthony Pell
Feb 28, 2013

Obama executive order on cyber attacks

US President Barack Obama has signed an executive order seeking better protection of the country's critical infrastructure from cyber attacks that are a growing concern to the economy and national security.

Anthony Pell
Feb 14, 2013

Executive Order Aims to Facilitate Sharing of Information on Threats

President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Tuesday designed to make it easier to disseminate classified information on threats against critical infrastructure systems and to lay the groundwork for obtaining information from the private sector that would help the government protect critical infrastructures in the U.S.

Dave Wreski
Feb 13, 2013

German State Abandons Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice

White House Warns: Move to Memory-Safe Languages

European Court of Human Rights Declares Backdoored Encryption Illegal