The sparring will be closely watched by every company that depends, even peripherally, on the Internet — which is to say, just about every company.
We have the technology to defeat censorship. Do we have the will?
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Brian Krebs’s widely read blog, Krebs on Security, covers a particularly dark corner of the Internet: profit-seeking cybercriminals who make billions off spam, malware and frauds.
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Testimony to Parliament from the top editor of The Guardian illustrated the aggressive investigative and spying tactics increasingly faced by news organizations.
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Visitors to the site can review many seemingly innocuous facts about themselves, but critics say it provides a sanitized view of the information mining behind data-driven marketing.
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The paper reported that a hacker collective called the Syrian Electronic Army had also targeted Time magazine and CNN, suggesting a coordinated attack.
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Officials said the site was off-line for about two hours during peak traffic hours because of a problem with regular maintenance of the site.
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Last week’s scoop by The Guardian about N.S.A. surveillance is a major coup for a news organization that established a beachhead in the United States less than two years ago.
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Edward J. Snowden orchestrated an elaborate plan to reveal the closely guarded secrets he had emerged with from deep inside the American national security apparatus.
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Hacking in China thrives across official, corporate and criminal worlds and is openly discussed and promoted, whether for breaking into private networks, tracking dissent or stealing trade secrets.
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The New York Times Company was a victim of online attacks earlier this week that slowed down The New York Times Web site and limited access to content.
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After a Twitter hoax caused the Dow to drop temporarily by 150 points, regulators are increasingly concerned about the combination of social media and high-frequency trading.
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The Twitter account for The Associated Press was hacked on Tuesday and erroneously sent out a tweet saying there had been explosions at the White House, injuring President Obama.
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The indictment of Matthew Keys, 26, in relation to a 2010 incident of online vandalism has led to an outcry over sentencing in computer crimes.
Matthew Keys, a 26-year-old social media editor, was charged with assisting the hacking collective Anonymous in an attack on The Los Angeles Times Web site.
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