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• Cyber security experts warn: your business could be hacked next

  By Patrick Budmar | 07 June, 2011 14:35

  What's happened to website security? While hearing about Japanese gaming giants, Sony and Nintendo, experiencing high profile security breaches was a surprise, hearing that online powerhouses such as Hotmail and Yahoo! were not immune to cyber attacks must have IT specialists worried to some extent.

• Sarah Palin hacker Kernell gets one-year sentence

  By Robert McMillan | 13 November, 2010 06:30

  The former college student who guessed his way into Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account during the 2008 U.S. presidential election was sentenced to a year and a day in prison Friday.

• New Yahoo site targets issues in November US elections

  By Grant Gross | 11 September, 2010 06:46

  Yahoo's news division has launched a new social-networking site that focuses on policy debates driving November's midterm elections in the U.S., with the site giving users a chance to debate and vote on issues.

• Computer of alleged Sarah Palin hacker had spyware

  By Robert McMillan | 10 December, 2009 06:48

  The 21 year-old college student charged with hacking former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account was using a compromised computer that was secretly logging and reporting information without his knowledge, his lawyers say.

• Charges beefed up against alleged Sarah Palin hacker

  By Robert McMillan | 10 March, 2009 07:27

  The University of Tennessee college student accused of illegally accessing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account was formally charged Monday on new fraud and obstruction of justice charges.

• US man indicted for hacking Palin's e-mail account

  By Grant Gross & Robert McMillan | 09 October, 2008 11:00

  A 20-year-old Tennessee man has been indicted for hacking into an e-mail account of U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, according to court records.

• Palin hacking charge flawed, lawyers say

  By Robert McMillan | 09 October, 2008 08:28

  David Kernell is facing five years in prison for allegedly hacking into Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account, but lawyers watching the case say that the felony charge against him is a bit of a stretch.

• No charges as grand jury investigates Palin hack

  By Robert McMillan | 24 September, 2008 09:23

  A federal grand jury investigation into the compromise of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo account has apparently concluded its first day of meetings without an indictment.

• FBI searches student's apartment in Palin hacking case

  By Gregg Keizer | 23 September, 2008 08:36

  FBI agents served a search warrant Sunday at the apartment of a college student whom Internet sleuths last week had named as the hacker who accessed US Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's e-mail account, a local television station reported.

• Report: Legislator's son at center of Palin hack talk

  By Gregg Keizer | 22 September, 2008 08:25

  A US state legislator has confirmed that his son, a 20-year-old student at the University of Tennessee, is the person being named on blogs and message boards in connection with the hacking of Sarah Palin's e-mail account, a Nashville paper reported.

• Web proxy firm working with FBI to trace Palin e-mail hacker

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 19 September, 2008 07:55

  The Webmaster of a proxy service called Ctunnel.com, which may have been used by a hacker to illegally access the e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, is working with law enforcement authorities to track down the person behind the break-in.