Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 20 at 1:58 pm PT
Big as they were, the attacks carried out in revenge for the Megaupload arrests accomplished nothing significant.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 1 at 3:22 pm PT
How scary was the Internet in 2011? It depends on what you consider scary. News of attacks, some silly, some downright chilling, created uneasiness all year.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 2, 2011 at 5:45 am PT
A nasty security vulnerability in Java is likely to cause headaches at large companies with lots of PCs, because installing a fix takes a lot of time.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 30, 2011 at 11:45 am PT
No, a hacked HP printer can’t burn down your house or office, but HP has a fix in the works anyway.
Cassell Bryan-Low, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on November 2, 2011 at 6:30 am PT
Newly released documents show that an outside lawyer for News Corp. in 2008 warned of a “culture of illegal information access” at the company’s News of the World newspaper, raising new questions about News Corp.’s longtime assertion that it was unaware of how widespread phone hacking was at the now-closed tabloid.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on October 14, 2011 at 3:51 pm PT
Science fiction makes it possible to have a conversation about the future, Johnson says, by giving us the metaphors we need to figure out what we want and don’t want to happen.
It started as curiosity and it turned into just being addicted to what was going on behind the scenes … I was almost relieved when they came and took the computer.
Christopher Chaney, the alleged “celeb hacker” who was arrested on charges of hacking the email accounts of Scarlett Johansson and other celebrities, said he was glad he got caught because he didn’t know how to stop.