I was recently sent a link by my friend Steve Gold highlighting the work of a hacker who goes by the name Jester. Apparently this hacker has found a way of initiating a DDOS attack without relying on a distributed network of systems....

After years of being an enforcement also-ran the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is finally going to get some teeth to deal with those that contravene data protection principles—see the details here. With the government...