Andrew Blake

Noel Biderman, Ashley Madison CEO, steps down as hack probe continues

Noel Biderman, the CEO of Ashley Madison's parent company, Avid Life Media, has resigned in the wake of the high-profile hacking scandal that has spawned an international law enforcement investigation and lawsuits in the U.S. and Canada.

August 28, 2015

Marty Allen Rogers, a Georgia dog owner, arrested after terrier tests positive for meth

A Georgia man has been charged with cruelty to animals after his dog tested positive for methamphetamine during a recent visit to the vet.

August 28, 2015

Select few pose vast majority of cyber risks, security firm warns

Cloud computing has changed the way organizations operate by allowing applications and data sets to be accessed from anywhere with Internet. But researchers warn in a new report that entire businesses can be easily brought down because of serious risks caused by a concentration of authority evidenced across the cloud.

August 27, 2015

Associated Press sues FBI for role in spyware scheme

The Associated Press has sued the FBI for failing to deliver documents regarding a 2007 case in which the agency used the AP's name to trick a suspect into installing spyware delivered through a bogus news article.

August 27, 2015

Defense Department gives contractors new rules for reporting cyber incidents

Defense contractors are now required to notify the Pentagon of any cyberattacks or data breaches within 72 hours of discovery, as new rules are rolled out to mitigate future hacks against the military and its clients.

August 27, 2015

Pentagon IDs victims of apparent insider attack as two US airmen

The Pentagon has identified Air Force Capt. Matthew D. Roland and Staff Sgt. Forrest B. Sibley as the victims of a fatal attack this week in Afghanistan.

August 27, 2015

China tightens noose on Internet as anti-censorship tools suddenly shutter

Censorship circumvention tools designed to bypass Internet restrictions are again under attack in China as software meant to let users around the nation's so-called Great Firewall are experiencing a sudden surge in service interruptions and shutdowns.

August 26, 2015

Agora, Internet drug den, going offline amid security concerns

Agora, an online marketplace where items ranging from illicit drugs to forged documents are bought and sold, is indefinitely shuttering its doors on the Dark Web due to supposed security concerns.

August 26, 2015

Arizona ramps up biometric program to keep IDs from fraudsters

The Arizona Department of Transportation has signed a deal with a global developer of facial-recognition technology that aims to give the state extra power in its fight against fraud.

August 25, 2015

Ashley Madison hack could cost dating site more than $1 billion as lawsuits mount up

Members of hacked dating website Ashley Madison are asking for more than $1 billion through class-action lawsuits that have been filed in the United States and Canada after the personal details of tens of millions of account holders were leaked online.

August 25, 2015

‘Malvertising’ on the rise as cybercriminals use Internet ads to infect computers

Security specialists say cybercriminals are increasingly using online advertising to infect computers with viruses, and one firm has reported a 325 percent increase in "malvertising" last year.

August 25, 2015

Russia bans, then un-bans Wikipedia over drug article

Russian censors this week briefly ordered Internet Service Providers to restrict access to Wikipedia due to an entry on charas, a type of cannabis. The online encyclopedia was officially added to the Kremlin's blacklist on Monday and was removed within hours.

August 25, 2015

Ashley Madison hack attractive to extortionists and other scammers, police say

Ashley Madison users have more to fear than just the release of their financial records and account info in the wake of a massive security breach: authorities say scammers are targeting people whose details appeared online.

August 24, 2015

MIT researchers readying ‘crash-tolerant’ computer system that never loses data

Computer crashes might soon be a lot less catastrophic: scientists at MIT are preparing to release a system that is claimed to be mathematically guaranteed not to lose data in the event of a crash.

August 24, 2015

Twitter kills service that saved politicians’ embarrassing deleted tweets

Twitter has killed-off a service that archived the deleted tweets of politicians and diplomats around the globe following the social networking site's decision to axe the American version earlier this year.

August 24, 2015

Ashley Madison fallout: Dating site offering $500K reward for hacker info amid suicide reports

Fallout from the Ashley Madison breach is now more than just angry spouses. Police say extortionists are targeting customers of the adultery website who had their personal details dumped onto the Internet, and a half-million-dollar bounty is now on the heads of the hackers who put the data out there.

August 24, 2015

Taser court victory in teen-death case upheld on appeal

A federal appeals court Friday affirmed a ruling that Taser International -- the manufacturer of law-enforcement stun guns -- isn't liable for the death of a Michigan teenager in 2009.

August 21, 2015

Hack doesn’t stop iPhone users from downloading Ashley Madison mobile app

Hackers, be damned. Ashley Madison's iPhone app is experiencing a surge in popularity this week in spite of the high-profile security breach that caused account details pertaining to the popular adult dating site's millions of users to be dumped on the Internet.

August 21, 2015

Russia threatens to add Wikipedia to blacklist over narcotics article

The Kremlin says it will ban Wikipedia within Russia unless the website blocks access to an article about drugs. The warning from Roskomnadzor, the government's online regulator, comes weeks after similar threats were made over content on Reddit and YouTube.

August 21, 2015

Hackers claim to release second round of Ashley Madison data

A second trove of data purported to have been pilfered from hacked dating website Ashley Madison has surfaced online in as many days, this time containing files thought to include sensitive corporate information.

August 20, 2015