A deputy social media editor at Reuters has been federally indicted, accused of participating in a conspiracy to help Anonymous hack into a former news company employer’s website.
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More than a quarter of the respondents to a 2012 general counsel survey say their companies experienced a cybersecurity breach during the last year or so.
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The power outages caused by Hurricane Sandy left the streets of Lower Manhattan uncommonly dark and empty on Halloween last year. Photo by Jannis Tobias Werner/Shutterstock.com.
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The hacker group that calls itself Anonymous took over the website of the U.S. Sentencing Commission over the weekend and threatened to release files named after U.S. Supreme Court justices.