Area where NAU student was slain is party hotspot

The neighborhoods around Northern Arizona University’s north campus were mostly quiet Thursday night. Pockets of college students chatted in empty doorways and smoked on dimly lit porches on East Franklin Avenue, just down the street from a boarded-up apartment door painted with the words “R.I.P. Colin our brother.” It was…

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SXSW: ‘Hot-spot honeypot’ hacker’s heaven

Darren Kitchen, 29, founder of Hak5 and creator of the WiFi Pineapple Mark IV honeypot. (Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET) AUSTIN, Texas–Some funny things were happening at the South by Southwest conference here today. My virtual private network connection kept getting disabled, and even stranger, on a friend’s laptop a window popped…

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