Mafiaboy grows up; a hacker seeks redemption

The Internet attack took Yahoo engineers by surprise. It came so fast and with such intensity that Yahoo, then the Web's second most-popular destination, was knocked offline for about three hours.

Here comes the digital nomad dream vehicle

The economy is in full-blown meltdown. Home values are dropping. Businesses are closing. Layoffs are coming. Maybe it's time to escape from civilization and wait out the crash?

Ning adds Google OpenSocial support to its social networks

Social network platform provider Ning Inc. - the brainchild of Netscape founder Marc Andreessen - Friday announced that it is adding support for the OpenSocial standard to the more than 500,000 social networks created by its users.

Exploit code loose for six-month-old Windows bug

Microsoft Thursday acknowledged that exploit code is circulating for a vulnerability it acknowledged six months ago, but has yet to patch.