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German plane hijacked to Somalia in 1977 being brought home

This photo from 1977 shows the hijacked Lufthansa jetliner Landshut, a Boing 737, at an airfield in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. BERLIN (AP) — A Lufthansa Boeing 737 hijacked to Somalia 40 years ago at the height of the leftist Red

Suspended Sentence for Mirai Botmaster Daniel Kaye

Last month, KrebsOnSecurity identified U.K. citizen Daniel Kaye as the likely real-life identity behind a hacker responsible for clumsily wielding a powerful botnet built on Mirai , a malware strain that enslaves poorly secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in large-scale online attacks. Today, a German court issued a suspended sentence for Kaye, who now faces cybercrime charges in the United Kingdom. In February 2017, authorities in the United Kingdom arrested a 29-year-old U.K. man on suspicion of knocking more than 900,000 Germans offline in a Mirai attack in November 2016. Shortly after that 2016 attack, a hacker using the nickname “Bestbuy” told reporters he was responsible for the outage, apologizing for the incident. Prosecutors in Europe had withheld Kaye’s name from the media throughout the trial. But a court in

One man killed in knife attack in Germany

A man armed with a kitchen knife fatally stabbed one person at a supermarket Friday in the northern German city of Hamburg and six others were wounded as he fled, police said. He was overpowered and arrested Police officers in Germany

The Latest: German police say stabbing suspect born in UAE

BERLIN — The Latest on the attack at a supermarket in Hamburg (all times local): 9:45 p.m. German authorities say the suspect in a Hamburg supermarket stabbing that left one person dead is a 26-year-old who was born in the United Arab Emirates. A statement Friday does not identify the man further and says police are still working to establish what nationality he has. Police say the man who was killed is believed to be a 50-year-old German and five other people also sustained stab wounds. Some are seriously hurt.  

Hamburg attack was by 'failed asylum seeker' who shouted 'Allahu Akbar'

A man shouting "Allahu Akbar" stabbed to death one person and wounded six others in a supermarket in the German city of Hamburg on Friday. The attacker, who was born in the United Arab Emirates, was overpowered by passers-by and arrested. Olaf Scholz, the mayor of Hamburg, said the attack had been motivated by "hate" and added that the suspected attacker was a failed asylum seeker whose deportation had been blocked because he lacked identity papers. "I am outraged by the vicious attack that killed at least one Hamburger today," he said. "It makes me especially angry that the perpetrator appears to be a person who claimed protection in Germany and then turned his hate against us." C iting security sources, Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel reported that the 26-year-old perpetrator was
George Clooney is not mincing words about his frustration with photos of his infant twins published by a French gossip magazine. In a statement to USA TODAY Friday, Clooney says the images, published on the cover of the French-language  Voici magazine and making the rounds online, were taken "illegally." “Over the last week photographers from Voici magazine scaled our fence, climbed our tree and illegally took

U.S. Pacific Fleet commander: I'd launch nuclear strike against China if Trump ordered it

A senior U.S. military official said Thursday that he would launch a nuclear strike against China next week if President Trump ordered it. “The answer would be: yes,” said Adm. Scott Swift, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, in response to