HP lowers financial guidance with webOS shutdown
After pulling the plug on its webOS phones and tablet computers Thursday, Hewlett Packard said it expected to be less profitable than expected during its current fiscal quarter, which ends Oct. 31.
Stories by Robert McMillan
The collar bomber's explosive tech gaffe
The man who claimed to have attached a bomb collar to an Australian high school student two weeks ago thought it would be a good idea to leave a ransom note on a USB stick looped around her neck. What he probably didn't realize is that he also left his name, hidden deep in the device's memory.
ICANN chief Beckstrom to step down
The head of the organization chartered with managing some of the Internet's complex routing systems is stepping down.
Fired techie created virtual chaos at pharma company
Logging in from a Smyrna, Georgia, McDonald's restaurant, a former employee of a U.S. pharmaceutical company was able to wipe out most of the company's computer infrastructure earlier this year.
Cell phones stay on, but protesters disrupt SF subway
San Francisco's commuter railway left mobile phone services untouched during a closely watched protest Monday, but for many commuters that didn't matter because they were locked out of the railway system altogether.
FCC looking into BART mobile phone shutdown
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is looking into last week's shutdown of mobile phone services on a San Francisco commuter train line.
Bay Area transit police cut mobile service to thwart protest
The agency that runs the commuter trains that rumble beneath San Francisco each day hit the panic button Thursday night, cutting off mobile-phone service to hundreds of thousands of commuters in an effort to thwart a protest that was expected to snarl up the evening commute.
Study finds Android app-makers careless with some data
A lot of the software written for Google's Android mobile phones falls short when it comes to user privacy and security.
South African police arrest man for selling jailbroken PS3s
South African police have arrested a 28-year-old Johannesburg man accused of selling jailbroken Sony PlayStation 3 machines and pirated game software.
Booz Allen CEO downplays effect of Anonymous hack
A July cyberattack on Booz Allen Hamilton will not materially harm the company's bottom line, its CEO said Tuesday.
Build your own camera, launch it like a grenade
Meet the Firefly.
AntiSec hackers dump data after hacking police websites
The war between law enforcement and the Anonymous hacking collective continued this weekend as hackers dumped a 10 gigabyte database that included private e-mails and information sent by confidential informants. Hackers say they stole information during an attack on more than 70 small-town law enforcement agencies.
Three tips for a better Anonymous
Has the Anonymous movement reached a midlife crisis?
Spam king Sanford Wallace indicted for Facebook spam
Notorious spam king Sanford Wallace is facing federal fraud charges for allegedly breaking into Facebook accounts and sending 27 million spam messages in 2008 and 2009.
A power plant hack that anybody could use
The night before the start of this week's Black Hat hacker conference here in Las Vegas, security researcher Dillon Beresford gave a demonstration to a small audience in his room at Caesar's Palace. The topic: how a hacker could take over the Siemens S7 computers that are used to control engines, machines and turbines in tens of thousands of industrial facilities.