Andrew Blake

Saivamsi Hanumanthu, student, charged with hacking N.C. high school’s computer system

A teenager was arrested in North Carolina on Wednesday after a months-long investigation led authorities to believe that he broke into a high school computer system and altered several students' grades in a Ferris Bueller-styled hack.

February 4, 2016

U.K. will press for Julian Assange’s arrest in spite of U.N. decision

Police will arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if he leaves the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, even amid reports that a United Nations' working group will agree this week that he's being "arbitrarily detained," the British government said Thursday.

February 4, 2016

D.C. burglary suspect caught after logging onto Twitter during break-in

D.C. police tracked down a man suspected of burglarizing businesses across the city after he logged into his Twitter accounts from one of the crime scenes, authorities said this week.

February 4, 2016

NBC station sued for airing image of teen’s erect penis, identifying him by name

A federal lawsuit filed in Colorado last week alleges that a Denver NBC station and its employees sexually exploited a 14-year-old boy by broadcasting a picture of his erect penis during a February 2014 news report that also identified the teen by name.

February 3, 2016

‘Legal rape’ group draws fire from hacktivists ahead of rallies but says ‘there’s no turning back’

The controversial "legal rape" blogger whose group is hosting an international gathering exclusively for men this weekend has told members of his website to take precautions after attracting the attention of hackers.

February 3, 2016

Chuck Grassley asks Ashton Carter to explain how he used personal email as Pentagon chief

The chairman of Senate Judiciary Committee has asked Defense Secretary Ashton Carter to elaborate after the Pentagon chief admitted recently to having conducted official government business with a personal email account, even after a similar scandal broke last year concerning Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton.

February 3, 2016

Felix Delgado, suspected grave robber, caught with human remains in basement of Connecticut home

The human remains of two people were discovered in the basement of a Bridgeport, Connecticut, home by authorities who were conducting a narcotics investigation, police said Tuesday.

February 3, 2016

Legal marijuana sales netted $5.4 billion in 2015, on track to hit $20 billion by decade’s end

Around $5.4 billion in marijuana was legally purchased by Americans in 2015, and market researchers predict that current trends stand to put annual state-sanctioned pot sales closer to $20 billion by the decade's end.

February 3, 2016

Jack Worth, Emerson College student, in trouble for renting downtown Boston dorm room on Airbnb

Emerson College has threatened to dismiss a 19-year-old student who was caught listing his downtown Boston dorm room on the travel site Airbnb last month in hopes of making extra money to put towards tuition.

February 2, 2016

State Department investigating reports of Americans arrested in Saudi Arabia on terrorism charges

The State Department on Monday said it was investigating reports that nine Americans are currently being held in Saudi Arabian prisons, including some on supposed terrorism-related charges.

February 2, 2016

Jeh Johnson defends cyber protection program after auditors said ‘EINSTEIN’ lacks capabilities

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on recently defended the nearly $6 billion National Cybersecurity Protection System after a federal audit found the program has lacked the ability to adequate prevent hackers from breaching government networks.

February 2, 2016

Appeals court upholds lifelong GPS monitoring for sex offender

A federal appeals court panel said requiring a convicted sex offender to wear a GPS anklet for life doesn't violate the constitutional ban on retroactive punishment, even though the law forcing him to be fitted with the monitoring device went on the books after he was found guilty.

February 2, 2016

Katherine Clark vows to ‘double down’ on online harassers, becomes victim of ‘swatting’ prank

U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark, Massachusetts Democrat, has promised to "double down" on her efforts to combat online abuse after she became a the victim of a cyber prank on Sunday night that ended with multiple police officers arriving at her home in search of an active shooter.

February 2, 2016

Cheapest exoskeleton lets the paralyzed walk for $40K

At about the same cost of a Cadillac, a robotics company from California said a new exoskeleton unveiled on Monday is making it possible for paraplegics and others with mobility disorders to regain their ability to walk.

February 1, 2016

Putin asks for ‘Google tax’ on non-Russian Internet companies

Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked the government to amend legislation to enable "more equal working conditions" among Internet companies, and Russian media reports that it may involve a new tax on services offered out of Silicon Valley.

February 1, 2016

Bruce Poliquin proposes ‘No Welfare for Terrorists Act,’ looks to close food stamps loophole

U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, Maine Republican, has drafted a bill that would prohibit the federal government from giving food stamps to individuals convicted of terrorism-related crimes.

February 1, 2016

Super Bowl 50: Surveillance systems and 60 agencies handling security concerns ahead of game

All eyes will be on Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara for this weekend's Super Bowl, but football fans won't be the only ones attentively watching the big game: National security concerns worsened by recent terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino has prompted 60 different federal, state and local law enforcement agencies to descend on the San Francisco Bay Area, and they're bringing surveillance gear too sensitive to even talk about.

February 1, 2016

Facebook begins banning users from arranging person-to-person gun deals

Facebook said on Friday that it is prohibiting private firearm sales from being arranged on the popular social network and its photo-sharing service, Instagram, amid a White House-led effort to pass what President Obama has called "common sense" gun reform laws.

February 1, 2016

Muriel Bowser, D.C. mayor, voids 2,829 citations issued during snow emergency

Nearly 3,000 parking tickets issued during the snow emergency in D.C. last week will be voided by the city, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Thursday.

January 29, 2016

Fraternal Order of Police asks FBI to investigate data breach

The nation's largest police union said on Thursday that it's asked the FBI to investigate a computer breach that allowed hackers to steal hundreds of internal documents that have since been published online.

January 29, 2016