Stories by Robert McMillan

Georgia student arrested for hacking grades, VoIP

A 19-year-old Cartersville, Georgia, college student has been charged with hacking into his school's computer system to change grades and steal other user's passwords.

Fugitive spam king dead in apparent murder-suicide

Convicted penny-stock spammer Eddie Davidson has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, apparently after killing his wife and three year-old daughter in his home town of Bennet, Colorado, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday

San Francisco DA discloses city's network passwords

In its bid to protect the city from one computer security risk, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office may very well have created another.

With DNS flaw now public, attack code imminent

One day after a security company accidentally posted details of a serious flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS), hackers are saying that software that exploits this flaw is sure to pop up soon.

Details of major DNS flaw posted by accident

A computer security company on Monday inadvertently published details of a major flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) several weeks before they were due to be disclosed.

San Fran hijacker pleads not guilty to network tampering

A disgruntled network administrator pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of computer tampering for allegedly setting up an unauthorized access system and holding much of the city of San Francisco's computer network hostage

Woman fired over death threat sent from work e-mail

An employee of 1-800-Flowers.com has been fired after an e-mailed death threat was linked to her account.

Facebook bug leaks members' birthday data

A glitch in a test version of Facebook's Web site inadvertently exposed the birthdays of Facebook's 80 million members this week.

IT admin locks up San Francisco's network

A network administrator has allegedly locked up a multimillion-dollar computer system for the city of San Francisco that handles sensitive data, and he is refusing to give police the password

New service tracks missing laptops for free

Lose your laptop these days and you lose part of your life: You say good-bye to photos, music and personal documents that cannot be replaced, and if it's a work computer, you may be the source of a very public data breach.

Webroot founder dies in Hawaii

Two weeks after going missing Webroot Software founder Steven Thomas has been found dead in Hawaii.

IBM slims down the Web for your phone

Researchers at IBM have developed software that lets mobile users create slimmed-down Web pages that can be viewed more easily on a small device such as a mobile phone.

iPhone 2.0 includes critical security fixes

Apple fans who bought their iPhones before Friday's splashy iPhone 3G rollout have a new reason to upgrade their software: It's buggy.

Internet bug fix spawns backlash from hackers

Hackers are a skeptical bunch, but that doesn't bother Dan Kaminsky, who got a lot of flack from his colleagues in the security research community after claiming to have discovered a critical bug in the Internet's infrastructure.

Symantec warns of new Word attack

Criminals have found a new way to attack PC users, taking advantage of what appears to be a new bug in Microsoft's Word software, according to Symantec.

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