Rebekah Brooks denies phone hacking charges

LONDON – Rebekah Brooks — a friend of Prime Minister David Cameron and once one of the most powerful people in the British media — on Wednesday formally denied charges of phone hacking, bribing public officials and trying to thwart a police investigation into tabloid wrongdoing. Brooks, the former chief…

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Met denies terror hacker claims

12 April 2012 Last updated at 13:29 ET Scotland Yard launched the investigation on Thursday The Met Police has denied claims its anti-terrorist hotline was hacked, after recordings were posted online. Hacking group Team Poison posted recordings to YouTube which appeared to show them speaking to the hotline, plus officers…

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RSA denies flaws in security algorithm

After having its flagship RSA crypto system called flawed this week by prominent researchers in a paper they made available online, EMC’s RSA security division struck back by saying the paper’s results don’t indicate a fundamental flaw in the RSA algorithm but more likely a problem with implementing it. “On…

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