Kara Swisher in News on March 15 at 5:06 am PT
The new leader addresses the nervous troops: Once more unto the breach, dear possibly laid-off Yahoos, once more …
Kara Swisher in Media on July 22, 2011 at 12:02 am PT
The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York happened 10 years ago this fall.
So, what’s the best way to remember?
Kara Swisher in Media on May 2, 2011 at 7:07 am PT
There might have been tweets right from the Pakistani city of Abbottabad at the time of the attack, but this ABC News video from inside the house where the U.S. raid on al Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden took place depicts it in ways 140 characters simply cannot.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 26, 2011 at 1:51 pm PT
The hackers who brought Sony’s Playstation Network down for nearly a week have accessed customer information, the company says.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 24, 2011 at 9:00 am PT
That USB cable is just a connection to a computer or a phone, right? It couldn’t be carrying an attack. Or could it?
Researchers at George Mason University say they have found a way to mount an attack using just some malicious code and a USB cable.
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Spencer Ante, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 10, 2011 at 3:22 pm PT
Computer security researchers trying to crack the recent major software attack on Google’s Android Market for wireless applications are examining digital fingerprints to try to figure out how and why the attack was perpetrated.
Liz Gannes in Social on March 3, 2011 at 11:03 am PT
WordPress.com, which hosts this site, was targeted by a distributed denial of service attack today. Users reported extreme slowness this morning, and Automattic switched hosted blogs into read-only mode while combatting the attack, according to a post on its support forum.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 4, 2011 at 3:28 pm PT
In the latest in an escalating war of ads, AT&T highlights the importance of the fact that its iPhone can surf the Web and make calls at the same time. As for holding on to said calls…well, I digress.
Kara Swisher in News on February 3, 2011 at 11:00 am PT
While he won’t officially take over as CEO of Google until April, the recent full-frontal slapfest on Microsoft’s Bing search engine for shoplifting results from the search giant was so Larry Page in tone and temperament that it brought back memories from many years ago when I covered Google more closely.
I would wager that we’re about to see a lot more of this pugnacious, in-your-face tone from Google under Page’s leadership, which could have far-reaching implications for the company.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 28, 2011 at 2:40 pm PT
Ever heard of MHTML? No? Well, Microsoft says Internet Explorer users should turn it off for a while until the company figures out how to fix this latest vulnerability in Windows.
