Security

US gov’t worker pleads guilty to accessing student files

The Illinois woman pleads guilty to one count of unauthorized computer access

Directory services still evolving

Navy’s electromagnetic railgun pumps out world record blast

Electromagnetic railgun fires off a mach 5 shot

Acai Berry spam attack on Twitter linked to Gawker hack

Hundreds of thousands of Gawker users see account info compromised

Freedom of speech vs. monomaniacs and spammers

Imposing moderation and ending anonymity

Website attackers could be easily traced, researchers say

People using a simple denial-of-serivice tool in support of WikiLeaks can be tracked

Goodbye Internet, we hardly knew ye?

The Internet, as we once knew it, will be under renewed attack next year

Zeus botnet targets holiday shoppers

How to check if your password was exposed in Gawker hack

Researcher HD Moore spells out how to see what accounts were among 1.3M accessed by hackers

WikiLeaks Teaches Enterprises 5 Hard Truths