An expert on cable modem hacking has been arrested by federal authorities on computer intrusion charges.

David Kernell's trial has been pushed back six months as the judge considers motions in the case.
A German man has reportedly been arrested after crawling several popular German social-networking sites for data and then allegedly trying to extort $120,000 from the sites' operators.
Yahoo bounces back phishing reports sent to its abuse@yahoo.com address, saying that they violate its anti-phishing policy.
They're shutting down the Bay Bridge between San Francisco and Oakland for the weekend, but a programming SNAFU led to some bad info on the Bay Bridge Web site.
Defcon is a lot of things, but a predictor of the housing crisis? Who knew.
Network Solutions warned merchant customers Friday that hackers had installed malware on their servers and may have captured details on more than half a million credit card transactions.
Web site uptime monitoring service Pingdom says US Bank was knocked offline by the DDOS attack that hit US and South Korean Web sites this week.
A Korean blogger has analyzed the malware behind an ongoing DDOS attack that took down US and South Korean government sites this week.


