The conflict-addicted Washington press corps must have missed the part of President Barack Obama’s inaugural speech admonishing the country to put away childish things. Or so it would seem from the silly coverage of the friendly, bipartisan White

U.S. Payment Processor Suffers Major Security Breach - Softpedia
Heartland Payment Systems , a payment processing provider based in Princeton, N.J., has disclosed that the security of its network has been compromised by unknown attackers. During a recent audit malicious applications intercepting and stealing

New OS X research warns of stealthier Mac attacks - The Register
A computer security researcher has discovered a new way to inject hostile code directly into the memory of machines running Apple’s OS X operating system, a technique that makes it significantly harder for investigators to detect Mac attacks using

US military files found on MP3 player bought in secondhand shop - MSN UK News
Chris Ogle said he bought the music player last year for $18 dollars in Oklahoma City, where he had been living, and found the files when he linked the device to his computer.

Does student journalism trump campus computer rules? - Ars Technica
Relations between a college administration and the student editors of the campus newspaper are often less than cordial, especially when the students make the administrators look bad. When a student at Western Oregon University came across a file on

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