One of the most notorious U.S.-based spammers was sentenced to more than four years in jail on Monday for a scheme that used spam to manipulate stock prices in order to make a profit.

Alan Ralsky, 64, of West Bloomfield, Michigan, was sentenced to 51 months in prison in U.S. District Court for the Eastern Di… Continue

PC Ed Rogerson is like many other beat bobbies. He patrols his patch, fights crime and gives out crime prevention advice. But in one respect he is different to almost every other copper walking a beat.

PC Ed Rogerson is on Twitter. He is one of about 20 or so police officers that have turned to the micro-b… Continue

Main Features Include
* support for concurrent downloading from multiple online download services
* downloading using proxy list
* download history
* smart clipboard monitoring
* automatic checking for file's existence on server
* auto shutdown options
* automatic plugins updates
* simple CAPTCHA recogn… Continue

"Some positive tech/pc news for a change"

Abilene High School senior Sean Velez describes himself as “a huge computer nerd.” Junior Chris Bullock, on the other hand, says, “I’m not a very big computer geek.”

So why would these two, along with seniors Stephen Walker and Scott Berry, all members of… Continue

Ex-employee attacked his old database months after being terminated.

A former database administrator for GEXA Energy has been convicted after pleading guilty to hacking his former employer's database system.

The conviction of Steven Jinwoo Kim, 40, was announced yesterday by United States Attorney Tim Johnson,… Continue

Three hackers have been indicted for redirecting the Comcast.net Web site to a page of their own making in 2008.

When Comcast customers visited the Comcast.net site during the attack on May 28, 2008, they were redirected to a Web site that displayed a message attributing the attack to members of the Kry… Continue

"We knew this was coming, but it is still pretty awesome"

By the year 2020, you won't need a keyboard and mouse to control your computer, say Intel Corp. researchers. Instead, users will open documents and surf the Web using nothing more than their brain waves.

Scientists at Intel's research lab in… Continue

The National Security Agency has been working with Microsoft Corp. to help improve security measures for its new Windows 7 operating system, a senior NSA official said on Tuesday.

The confirmation of the NSA's role, which began during the development of the software, is a sign of the agency's deepening involv… Continue

Something must be changing the company founded by Bill Gates when only a few years ago looked at with contempt and OpenSource software now release small parts and platforms to be used, modified and discuss freely. Microsoft has released the code. NET Micro Framework, a development closely related. NET F… Continue

Or so they say a gang of hackers who have examined the contents of the disc. These hackers, aimed (apparently successfully) was able to play Modern Warfare 2 "on dedicated servers, they found a surprise in the form of hidden content and locked, especially some new multiplayer game modes will probably be… Continue