The man accused of cracking a Twitter database and peeking at the Twitter accounts of Barack Obama and Britney Spears said this week that he didn't mean harm, according to a French TV station.
(Reuters) - Internet domain company GoDaddy.com said it planned to stop registering domain names in China, joining Google Inc in protesting cyber attacks and censorship in that country.
Hundreds of computer geeks, most of them students putting themselves through college, crammed into three floors of an office building in an industrial section of Ukraine's capital Kiev, churning out code at a frenzied pace. They were creating some of the world's most pernicious, and profitable, computer viruses.
U.S. experts close in on Google hackers
February 21, 2010 9:52 p.m. EST
(FT) -- U.S. analysts believe they have identified the Chinese author of the critical programming code used in the alleged state-sponsored hacking attacks on Google and other western companies, making it far harder for the Chinese government to den...
In Wake of Botnet Scare, Cybercrooks Come Creeping
A massive botnet tying together more than 74,000 zombiefied PCs around the world was exposed Thursday, part of a secret underground network for rent to cybercrooks worldwide. But don't look for info on how to detect and eliminate it, or you could get caught up by "poisoned" searched results.
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