A young 22-year-old hacker has been arrested in Batna, Algeria, by special units of the countrys justice on a request by Interpol. The hacker arrested as he allegedly managed to access a site of the US Defence Department and destroying some secret files. (more)

Albert Gonzalez, the 28-year-old Miami hacker accused of helping to orchestrate the largest credit card heist in US history, may not have understood he was committing a crime because he has a developmental disorder, according to information his attorneys have submitted to federal court in Boston. (more)

Hackers may have had access to personal information for about 600 UCSF patients as a result of an Internet “phishing” scam, campus officials said Tuesday.

The security breach occurred in September when a faculty physician in the UCSF School of Medicine provided a user name and password in response to a scam e-mail message. (more)

Foreign Secretary David Miliband should use his considerable influence with Hillary Clinton to intervene in the extradition of Scottish computer hacker Gary McKinnon, a senior MP said yesterday.

Labour’s Keith Vaz, chairman of the home affairs select committee, said the US secretary of state’s description of Mr Miliband as “vibrant and attractive” could help resolve the issue. (more)

In an apparent last-ditch effort to avoid extradition to America, accused U.S. government hacker Gary McKinnon is taking his case to the U.K.’s High Court.

Late last month, Home Secretary Alan Johnson said that, after reviewing medical reports and court filings for (more)

Marc Pinter-Krainer, a former chief executive of AIM-listed technology company KTS, saw one of his new ventures called Onenewspage.com website, penalized in this way in May and despite repeated attempts to find out why remains none the wiser. (more)

Envato has just released a brand new e-commerce tool to help coders around the world make more money during their spare time. The latest release to its marketplace family, CodeCanyon is a website where subscribed users have the chance to submit plugins or snippets of code and have them promoted and sold on one of the world’s biggest web-related marketplaces. (more)