NSA’s Top-Secret SKYNET May Be Killing Thousands of Innocent Civilians

So what do you expect from an Artificially intelligent program run by the government intelligence agency? Possibly killing innocent people. The real-life SKYNET, the fictional malevolent artificial intelligence in the Terminator movies, run by the US National Security Agency NSA is a surveillance...

Brian Donohue on Security and Journalism

Dennis Fisher talks with Brian Donohue about his time at Threatpost, learning about security and the joy and pain of being a journalist. Download: digitalunderground205.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Why Tor Shuts Down its Anonymous Cloud Service?

Why Tor Cloud Project Shuts Down? Yes, you heard that right. The Tor project has announced that it’s closing down its Tor Cloud service that allowed users to donate bandwidth for browsing the web anonymously. The Tor Project is a non-profit organization behind the Tor anonymizing network that...

Patrick Gray on the State of Security and State Security

Worlds collide as Dennis Fisher talks with Patrick Gray of the Risky Business podcast about security journalism, how much and how little has changed in the industry in the last 15 years and whether we’re making any progress in the fight against attackers. Download: digitalunderground189.mp3 Music...

How I Got Here: Kelly Jackson Higgins

Dennis Fisher talks with Kelly Jackson Higgins of DarkReading about her childhood days creating her own newspapers, her ambitions to be a sportswriter, getting into technology journalism and the fun and craziness of covering the security industry. Download: 14jacksonhiggins.mp3 Music by Chris...

Reuters Editor Indicted for Allegedly Helping Hackers Break Into Tribune Co.

UPDATE — One of Matthew Keys’ lawyers told The Huffington Post on Friday that his client was working as an “undercover” journalist when he engaged members of Anonymous in an IRC channel offering login credentials for Tribune Co. servers. Keys, 26, of Secaucas, N.J., was suspended with pay from...

Sky News: Hacking was "Responsible Journalism" in Public Interest

In a statement published by The Guardian Thursday, Sky News admitted to twice authorizing a journalist to hack into the email accounts of persons suspected of crimes, defending its actions as “editorially justified.” In the first incident, the broadcaster admitted hacking the e-mail account of Jo...

WikiLeaks wins Aussie Journalism Awards Australia

WikiLeaks wins Aussie Journalism Awards Australia The whistle-blowing website, WikiLeaks, has been honoured at Australia's premier journalism awards for releasing of "an avalanche of inconvenient truths in a global publishing coup" which has had "an undeniable impact". The Walkley Awards are the...

WikiLeaks wins Aussie Journalism Awards Australia

WikiLeaks wins Aussie Journalism Awards Australia The whistle-blowing website, WikiLeaks, has been honoured at Australia's premier journalism awards for releasing of "an avalanche of inconvenient truths in a global publishing coup " which has had "an undeniable impact ". The Walkley Awards are th...

Phone Hacker Forced to Disclose name, Who Told Him to Hack !

Phone Hacker Forced to Disclose name, Who Told Him to Hack ! Court tells private investigator he must identify 'News of the World' executives who asked him to intercept voicemails. A private detective jailed for illegally intercepting voice-mail messages on behalf of a journalist at one of Rupert...

News Intl. Calls Brown's Allegations of Malware Use "Nonsense"

Allegations made on Wednesday by former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown that journalists working for Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid used malicious software to break into and gather information from computers belonging to the subjects of investigations was greeted with a strong...

Top 5 best criminal computer hackers of all time

These hackers are the ones that you've seen in shackles arrested for cybercrimes when they were just getting out of puberty. Some have done it for financial gain others just for fun. 1. Kevin Mitnick. Mitnick is perhaps synonymous with Hacker. The Department of Justice still refers to him as "the...