Andrew Blake

Julian Assange case: U.K. police end 24/7 watch for WikiLeaks chief after 3 years

London's Metropolitan Police Service has ordered its officers to abandon their post outside of the Ecuadorian Embassy, ending for now a 3-year-long presence that has prevented WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange from leaving the building without risking immediate arrest.

October 12, 2015

Kunduz hospital bombing video sought by WikiLeaks; group offers $50k

WikiLeaks, the secret-spilling group that has published thousands of classified documents pertaining to U.S. foreign policy, is now seeking footage from the recent bombing of a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders in Kunduz, Afghanistan.

October 9, 2015

LinkedIn profiles said to be part of Iranian cyber-espionage campaign

Iranian hackers are suspected of operating a network of bogus LinkedIn accounts that security researchers believe is part of a campaign targeting employees of corporations in the Middle East.

October 9, 2015

James Comey, FBI director: Encryption debate on hold despite national security concerns

The Obama administration has abandoned for now its plans to put in place a law that would require Internet companies to give investigators access to encrypted messages, FBI Director James Comey told the Senate on Thursday.

October 9, 2015

Idaho boy, 15, arrested for threat to kill girls over naked pictures

Police have apprehended 15-year-old Idaho boy after he allegedly threatened to bring a gun to school and "kill all the girls."

October 9, 2015

Matthew Keys verdict yields new calls for computer law reform, retaliation

In light of a federal jury's decision this week to convict journalist Matthew Keys of three counts related to a cyber incident suffered by the Los Angeles Times in 2010, critics of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act are once again urging lawmakers to re-examine the country's anti-hacking statute.

October 8, 2015

Donald Trump hotel chain confirms ‘data security incident’; customers of 7 properties affected

Donald Trump's hotel chain has confirmed that credit cards used at seven high-end properties -- including establishments in New York, Las Vegas and Chicago -- may have been compromised as a result of malware that went unnoticed on system computers for more than a year.

October 8, 2015

‘Iron Man’ suit slated for Pentagon debut in 2018

The Pentagon is poised to put a real-life "Iron Man" on the battlefield in under two years' time, and military officials say the state-of-the-art, sensor-embedded suit of armor will give ground troops a significant advantage unmatched this side of the Marvel universe.

October 8, 2015

Canadian military asks car hackers for help exploiting automobile vulnerabilities

Car hackers are being courted by the Canadian military as part of a government-led initiative to better grasp automobile cybersecurity amid a rash of damning discoveries.

October 7, 2015

Russia tells Google to make changes to Android by Nov. 18 or face penalties

Google has been given a Nov. 18 deadline to make changes to the way its Android operating system comes preconfigured for users in Russia before regulators in the Kremlin begin lobbing hefty fines at the tech titan in accordance with a recent antitrust ruling.

October 7, 2015

FAA dumps recording-setting fine on aerial photo company over drone flights

The Federal Aviation Administration has asked an aerial photography studio to pay $1.7 million in fines for allegedly conducting dozens of unauthorized drone flights over New York and Chicago.

October 7, 2015

Harvard debate team loses to inmates from maximum-security prison

Harvard University's award-winning debate team is among the best in the world, but undergrads at the Ivy League school fell short of securing a victory recently against a rather unusual adversary: a panel of inmates from a maximum-security prison in upstate New York.

October 7, 2015

Peeple, the ‘Yelp for People’ app, rethinks concept in the shadows after instant backlash

Peeple, the "Yelp for People" ratings app that caused a stir upon being unveiled less than a week ago has quietly since disappeared from the web.

October 6, 2015

Augustus Sol Invictus stirs up Florida senate race with tales of sacrificing goats, drinking blood

Augustus Sol Invictus, a 32-year-old former lawyer who claims he was kicked out of a religious sect due to performing an animal sacrifice, is currently the Florida Libertarian Party's only candidate in next year's U.S. Senate race.

October 6, 2015

‘Safe Harbor’ data deal between EU and U.S. deemed invalid by high court

Europe's top court ruled Tuesday that data stored on U.S. servers isn't adequately protected because of government spying, a giant blow to companies such as Facebook and Google that had relied on a 15-year-old data-sharing agreement with the European Union and now may be forced to change the way they handle private data and user records.

October 6, 2015

DraftKings and FanDuel change fantasy sports rules for employees following data leak

Fantasy sports websites DraftKings and FanDuel said in a joint statement on Tuesday that their employees are no longer permitted to participate in online sports contests for money in the wake of a recent data leak.

October 6, 2015

Billions in income leaving D.C. region for low-tax states

Billions of dollars worth of income once destined for tax collectors in Virginia, Maryland and the greater District of Columbia has instead bankrolled official government business elsewhere as new statistics highlight migration patterns among money-makers out of the mid-Atlantic.

October 6, 2015

Nuclear industry ‘struggling’ to make sense of growing cyber threat: report

Nuclear facilities across the globe are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks because of industry-wide cultural and technical challenges that have the potential of proving to be catastrophic, experts told the authors of a new report.

October 5, 2015

Philadelphia-area colleges brace for violence after threat appears online

Philadelphia-area colleges were on high alert Monday following the discovery of an Internet posting that attracted the attention of the FBI and ATF.

October 5, 2015

T-Mobile customers affected by huge Experian hack

Hackers have made off with personally identifiable information of roughly 15 million T-Mobile customers, and the CEO of the telecom said he's "incredibly angry" at a third-party company he blames for the data breach.

October 2, 2015