The Supreme Court has ruled that a police officer who searched a license plate database for an acquaintance in exchange for cash did not violate U.S. hacking laws. The landmark ruling concludes a long
Former Reuters journalist Matthew Keys was sentenced today to two years in prison on hacking charges. He faced a maximum sentence of 25 years. During his sentencing hearing, Keys tweeted, “This
Anonymous hacktivist, Jeremy Hammond, who <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012-13_Stratfor_email_leak#cite_note-guardian-8">leaked millions of emails</a> from security firm Strat
On June 14th, 2010, Michael Arrington <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/06/14/were-awarding-goatse-security-a-crunchie-award-for-public-service/">awarded a Crunchie</a> to two members of Goatse Se
Digital activist Aaron Swartz took his own life on January 11. Swartz was facing federal hacking charges after being arrested for downloading millions of articles from JSTOR from MIT’s network in ex
<b>Editor’s note: </b><em>Ansel Halliburton is a lawyer at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerlaw.com/">ComputerLaw Group</a>. </em>
In the summer of 2010, a group called Goatse Secur