Law and Order

The noose tightened around prominent Anonymous-related leaders yet again, with the arrest late Wednesday of Barrett Brown, of Dallas County, Texas. This marks the second time Brown has been raided by federal authorities.

Brown previously described himself as an Anonymous spokesperson, but announced his departure from the group last year. He is now being held in federal detention in Dallas on charges of threatening a federal agent, according to his attorney’s Twitter account.

Wyndham Hotels and Resorts has filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Phoenix to dismiss a complaint launched by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over the chain's repeated security breaches.

According to the FTC, the offenses began when Russian hackers breached Wyndham's Phoenix data center in 2008 and stole the financial information of customers, leading to two subsequent breaches in a two-year period.

With a little more than a day before the iPhone 5's expected debut, Samsung has decided to sue Apple for patent infringement over its reported use of long-term evolution (LTE) connectivity in the next-generation smartphones.

A number of 10 individuals have been sentenced to a total of 40 years by a judge at the Guildford Crown Court after they had convinced several elderly citizens to hand over more than £120,000 ($191,916 or 150122 EUR).

“The sentences that have been handed to these callous individuals have ensured that they are locked up for some time to come,” Detective Chief Inspector Paul Rymarz of the Surrey Police said.

An Australian magistrate has ruled that an iPad owner acted lawfully when he used Apple's Find my iPad app to locate his stolen fondleslab in a private home.

ABC News and the Canberra Times report that when a Canberra man's iPad mysteriously disappeared he fired up the Find my iPad App. Doing so revealed, thanks to the fondleslab's built-in GPS, that it was located in a nearby suburb. The newly iPad-less man went to the location indicated by the app and heard his iPad making noises within a home.

Joshua Schichtel on Thursday received a 30-month prison sentence after pleading guilty last year to creating a botnet that infected 72,000 computers.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 30-year-old Schichtel sold access to botnets, which are networks of thousands of malware-infected computers, to scammers, who would contact Schichtel and pay him to install the malware on computers that comprised the botnet.

Everyday, we all open our e-mail inboxes and are greeted by an avalanche of e-mails we don't want, don't need, never had to see. The most foolproof way to banish these particular strains of e-mails from our inbox should be unsubscribing, usually via a link in the e-mail itself. But all too often, we find that workflow looks something like this:

The U.K.'s Home Office will decide by Oct. 16 whether to block the extradition to the U.S. of Gary McKinnon, who has admitted to hacking into U.S. government computers, McKinnon's attorney said on Thursday.

McKinnon, 46, of north London, was indicted in 2002 at the U.S. District Court in Virginia for hacking into 97 military and NASA computers between February 2001 and March 2002.

A hacker who controlled a botnet of 72,000 computers and rented out command-and-control access to various malcontents was sentenced to 30 months in prison today, the Department of Justice said.

In 2010, French authorities instated a group of bureaucrats whose purpose was to enforce copyright protection on the Internet in France. The group, called Hadopi, was in charge of enforcing the law of the same name, which would take requests from rights holders for take downs when someone with a French IP address tried to download a P2P file containing illegally procured media.