A Tennessee man, Marvin Potter (on the right), is in police custody tonight, charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of a couple who had unfriended his 30-year-old daughter on the popular social networking site. More »
Hacker YamaTough has published Symantec’s pcAnywhere’s source code. This program is used by users and companies to access personal computers remotely. The publication follows a $US50,000 extortion attempt that was made public last night. More »
Piracy’s a fact of life. As a defence against having their intellectual properties swiped, cracked and traded online like so many baseball cards, a lot of companies have turned to Digital Rights Management, a move that seldom does more than temporarily slow pirates and enrage paying customers. Fortunately, there’s a growing number of non-DRM related options out there for developers and software vendors to explore that’ll stymy piracy while respect the rights of their paying users. Let’s give ‘em a try. More »
The Cold War ended a long time ago, so you can maybe forgive the government’s internal spook-hunters for becoming a little lax compared to the old days. But letting a 67-year-old man ferry top secret documents to his home in a ’91 Toyota Corolla? Gonna need a good explanation on this one, guys. More »
The mastermind of a carding gang in the US state of Georgia devised a novel way for weeding out undercover Feds from his operation — he forced members to have group sex, according to a local police detective who helped bust the ring. More »
Last year, Google had to pay $US500 million to avoid criminal prosecution by the US government. Using a convicted con artist, the feds caught Google aiding illegal online pharmaceutical sales. The operation — as described by the Wall Street Journal — is movie material. More »
That bail hearing scheduled for Monday in the MegaUpload conspiracy trial didn’t go as well as Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom had hoped. It looks like he’s going to remain in custody for a few more weeks. More »
