The first confirmed attacks were in January 2010, Symantec says
Hackers broke into a Ceridian payroll account, but the fraud was thwarted
Google has fixed a bug that allowed any 10 words to register as a correct response
Many attendees at the Defcon hacker conference have never heard of Project Vigilant
Destroying the evidence would have been too risky, so Lamo had to turn in Bradley Manning, says security pro Chet Uber
Participants in a Defcon social engineering contest had no problem getting data from Fortune 500 companies
Intercepts mobile-phone data on the GSM networks used by AT&T and T-Mobile
A Mozilla developer figures out how to watch the $395 talks for free
The social engineering contest will target as many as 30 companies
The FCC expressed concerns to a conference presenter, but it's unclear what authority it has to stop his talk