Vigilantes at Microsoft and Symantec ‘hijack’ hundreds of thousands of PCs for good

February 6, 2013 3:02 PM Meghan Kelly
Meghan Kelly

Microsoft and Symantec shut down servers at two data centers today, pulling a botnet that could be up to 900,000 infected computers strong offline.

The wild wild web: top U.S. cyber-cop says we’re losing the war against computer criminals

March 28, 2012 4:42 AM Ben Popper
Ben Popper

The outgoing executive assistant director of the F.B.I., Shawn Henry, is not leaving on an optimistic note. “We’re not winning,” the nation’s top cyber-cop told the Wall Street Journal. ”I don’t see how we ever come out of this without …