The great thing about cloud computing is that no matter where you are, your files are just there. It turns out they’re just there for law enforcement too, as two Google Docs-using New York spammers recently found out.
Security expert Marc Maiffret parlayed his teen hacking skills into getting paid to find holes in Microsoft software. Now, he says, Adobe and Apple can learn from Microsoft’s past.
The internet’s newest, scariest trojan virus doesn’t just destroy your computer, it destroys the esteem in which you’re held by your loved ones and colleagues, too! By publishing your browser history unless you pay a $US15 ransom, that is.
French, check. Unemployed, check. Obvious hacker name of “HackerCroll”, check. The FBI has nailed their culprit, believed to have “gained control of Twitter” by hacking into both Obama’s and Britney Spears’s Twitter accounts last year.
An incident from 2008, brought to light recently by the Washington Post, reveals just how discombobulated our nation’s cybersecurity efforts actually are. A terrorist-tracking forum, created by the CIA and Saudi government, was shut down by the National Security Agency.
How did one of the world’s largest search engine companies wind up deciding to collaborate with the one federal agency most renowned for spooky spying?
