Lauren Goode in News on January 31 at 10:03 am PT
A new email service promises to expunge any trace of email exchanges after a note has been read. But, in the age of digital data, is anything ever really erased?
Devlin Barrett, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 19 at 12:11 pm PT
The Federal Bureau of Investigation shut down Thursday one of the world’s most popular file-sharing websites, MegaUpload.com, and announced the arrest of four of the people behind it in a global crackdown against the suspected online pirates.
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 22, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
For more than a year, federal authorities pursued a man they called simply “the Hacker.” Only after using a little known cellphone-tracking device — a stingray — were they able to zero in on a California home and make the arrest.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on July 21, 2011 at 11:06 am PT
The hacking group Anonymous raised eyebrows today for its “daring hacker raid” on the servers of NATO. What did it take? A bunch of documents that so far seem, well, boring, really.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on July 19, 2011 at 2:42 pm PT
The arrests include 14 for a December attack against PayPal, and two connected to a pair of incidents connected to the LulzSec gang. Five others are arrested in the U.K. and The Netherlands.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on July 19, 2011 at 12:32 pm PT
FBI agents are arresting people and executing search warrants nationwide as part of its investigation into the hacking group Anonymous.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on June 25, 2011 at 7:37 pm PT
On its 50th day of activity, the hacking group LulzSec calls it quits, but not before dropping one more collection of hacker booty. Why quit now? Probably because the heat is on.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on June 21, 2011 at 11:21 am PT
Scotland Yard’s arrest of a 19-year old on computer crime charges has some wondering if the infamous LulzSec hacking troupe — which has attacked entities as varied as Sony, Nintendo and the CIA — is about to be broken. The group itself doesn’t sound worried. Update: Now LulzSec has acknowledged a tie to the person arrested.
