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.
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.
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
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
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
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
The Syrian Electronic Army, just days after targeting the New York Post, has compromised Outbrain.com, a content recommendation platform, and used their access to target readers of the Washington Post, CNN, and Time with pro-Assad propaganda
Steve Ragan | 15 Aug | Read more
Microsoft's Surface RT tablets have been in trouble almost since they became available last year, but it looks like the company is going to hang with them at least through the next version.
Tim Greene | 12 Aug | Read more
Fresh off new Snowden-leaked revelations that the NSA has the ability to record and monitor all Internet activity, came this curious tale from writer Michele Catalano where she claimed that a chance combination of innocuous Internet searches prompted a visit from a "joint terrorism taskforce." You may have seen it tweeted about or shared on Facebook, or even seen Ms. Catalano's fuller re-telling in The Guardian. Turns out it wasn't exactly true.
Evan Dashevsky | 02 Aug | Read more
Early Monday, a developer announced the release of the first porn app for Google Glass only to learn that Google had banned porn apps for its computerized eyeglasses.
Sharon Gaudin | 04 Jun | Read more
A suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday has reportedly been arrested, according to numerous news agencies, although there were conflicting reports about the status of the investigation.
Computerworld Staff | 17 Apr | Read more
Fugitive anti-virus technology pioneer John McAfee, who is wanted for questioning by police in Belize in connection with a murder in that country several weeks ago, has been detained in Guatemala on charges that he entered the country illegally.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 06 Dec | Read more
Fugitive anti-virus technology pioneer John McAfee, who is being sought by Belize authorities in connection with the murder of his neighbor there, described himself as a "foolish man" in an interview televised on CNN on Sunday.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 03 Dec | Read more