NEW YORK – Facebook’s billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a “hacker”. For most people, that word means something malicious – shady criminals who listen in on private voicemails, or anonymous villains who cripple websites and break into email accounts. For Facebook, though, “hacker” means something different. It’s an ideal…
For Facebook, ‘Hacker Way’ is way of life, failures and all
FILE – This Oct. 15, 2011 file photo, shows Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg smiling during a meeting in San Francisco. NEW YORK – Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a hacker. View full post on facebook hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Video: Deputy’s ‘fight for his life’ seen on dash cam
By PoliceOne Staff KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Dash cam shows a Kalamazoo sheriff’s deputy engage in the "fight for his life" after being shot in the arm during a traffic stop. William Wright, 28, launched what would become a seven-hour ordeal for police when he fired the first shots Friday night,…
Convicted sex abuser sentenced to life in prison
WEST UNION — The prosecutor in the child sexual abuse trial of Ricky Putman called the case one of her most disturbing. Putman, 43, of Arlington, was convicted Dec. 12 of first-degree sexual abuse causing serious injury. The victim was a 2-year-old girl later hospitalized in Iowa City. On Thursday…
Facebook bug reveals Zuckerberg’s private life
Facebook users have been given a sneak-peek into the personal life of the creative genius behind the world’s biggest social network. View full post on facebook hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Calif. pepper spray incident takes on own life on the Web
By John Timpane Chattanooga Times Free Press PHILADELPHIA — Campus police Lt. John Pike probably never thought he’d ever be famous. Certainly not like this. Pike is now more than a person, more than a news event. He has become a meme. He has joined the ranks of Achmed the…
Digital Life | Celeb news searches can zap your PC
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 18–> An appetite for entertainment can be your ticket to a fraudster’s website that will try to steal personal information or inflict viruses, spyware and spam on your computer. Type the name of your favorite celebrity on an Internet search engine and you’re presented with an array…
Stabbed NM cop testifies: Feared for life
Author: Gary T. Klugiewicz By Vic Vela Albuquerque Journal ALBUQUERQUE — State Police officer Steven Carroll testified Monday that he pleaded with an attacker that "you don’t want to kill a cop" as Carroll was being beaten and strangled and eventually was stabbed during a routine arrest gone wrong earlier…
Father of SSL says despite attacks, the security linchpin has lots of life left
SSL/TLS, the protocol that protects security of e-commerce, has taken a beating lately, with news items ranging from the violation of certificate authorities to the discovery of an exploit that beats the protocol itself. With all the noise about SSL/TLS it’s easy to think that something is irreparably damaged and perhaps it’s…
Tom Cruise “Pre-Crime” Minority Report machine brought to life
Are you sceptical of pre-crime detection by psychics? The US government has come up with a Big Brother-esque machine that senses if an individual intends to do harm. Minority Report, anyone? The Electronic Privacy Information Center, a public interest research center in Washington, DC, recently filed two Freedom of Information…