After a five-year sabbatical, I am once again preparing myself to visit sunny Las Vegas to attend the annual Defcon computer security conference. Billed as “the largest underground hacking event in the world,” Defcon is always attended by an intriguing...
To not as much fanfare as I thought the story deserved, news outlets covered the U.S. Department of Justice’s June 2 announcement that a coordinated multi-national effort had led to the actual arrest of some big-time Internet criminals, and the crippling of one...