Risk of suicide if autistic man accused of hacking extradited to US, court told

An autistic man accused of hacking into US government computers would be at "high risk" of killing himself if he is extradited to America, a court heard. Lauri Love, who has Asperger's Syndrome, is accused of stealing huge amounts of data from US agencies including the Federal Reserve, the Department of Defence, Nasa and the FBI.

Did the State Department Disable Its Own Email Security To Accommodate Hillary Clinton?

Earlier today, the AP ran a story seemed to blow a hole in Hillary Clinton's entire email defense. One of Hillary Clinton's central defenses in the slow moving Chernobyl that is the investigation into her misuse of private email to send top secret information is that her server was never breached.

Emails: Key security features disabled on Clinton’s server

In this March 12, 2012 file photo, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton checks her mobile phone after her address to the Security Council at United Nations headquarters. Newly released emails show State Department staffers wrestled in December 2010 over a serious technical problem with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's home email server.

Lone Hacker’ Posts Campaign Documents Purportedly Stolen From DNC

A document posted online by a self-styled 'lone hacker' included a purported May 2015 DNC strategy document on dealing with the GOP presidential candidates. Documents posted on the Internet Wednesday by a self-described "lone hacker" were presented as examples of some of the material hacked from the Democratic National Committee's computer systems, including opposition research on Donald Trump, suggested campaign talking points for Hillary Clinton, and strategies for confronting Republican candidates.

Russian hackers breach DNC computers, steal data on Trump

Russian hackers managed to breach the computer network of the Democratic National Committee and stole opposition research on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. The hackers had access to email and chat traffic as far back as last summer, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.

Russian groups accused of hacking Democratic computers, seeking research on Trump

To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: Washington - Hackers affiliated with the Russian government have been tapping into the files of the Democratic National Committee for nearly a year, targeting in particular the party's opposition research about Donald Trump, officials say. DNC officials on Tuesday confirmed the break-in, which was first reported by The Washington Post.

Rules? What rules?

"Rules are made to be broken" is a saying that has many variations, but perhaps no one has summed up Hillary Clinton's attitude about rules more than the late science-fiction writer, Robert A. Heinlein, who said: "I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

Apple rehires prominent security pro as encryption fight boils

Jon Callas, who co-founded several well-respected secure communications companies including PGP Corp, Silent Circle and Blackphone, rejoined Apple in May, an Apple spokesman said. Callas had worked at Apple in the 1990s and again between 2009 and 2011, when he designed an encryption system to protect data stored on a Macintosh computer.