"Police blotter" is a weekly News.com report on the intersection of technology and the law. What: Douglas Plude, convicted of his wife's murder, says computer logs provide an alibi. Plude, who lived ...

WASHINGTON — Federal and private-sector officials this week said they still can’t rule out cybersabotage or IT-based failures as the cause of the Aug. 14 blackout. Although no clear evidence has been ...

Security researchers have noticed a malicious campaign that used Windows event logs to store malware, a technique that has not been previously documented publicly for attacks in the wild. The method ...