SECURITY

A 50-year-old former Richmond security guard named Doran Long Jr. of Concord, who was suspected of opening fire on his supervisor, was arrested Thursday morning in El Dorado Count, near the Nevada border.

Various reports of security glitches in Apple's latest iOS 5 keep on emerging. Adding to the issues that people were facing while upgrading their iOS devices, a new flaw has surfaced, wherein iPad 2 owners using the Smart Cover unlocking enabled in iOS 5 are exposed to a bug that can break into their password-protected iPad 2.

Siri will let anyone make calls or send text messages and e-mails from a locked iPhone 4S, even without knowing the passcode, Macworld reports.

Apple received criticism this week as iPhone 4S customers realized that Siri - the wise-cracking voice-controlled personal assistant - has been leaving the keys in the door. The feature, whose hands-free element has been a selling point for drivers, is programmed to respond to commands even when the phone is locked with a passcode.

Apple Siri, a groundbreaking application which set the world by storm since the very first day of the launch of iPhone 4S, is now being highly criticized for its language biasness and security flaws.

Gold eased on Wednesday as growing hopes of a resolution to the Eurozone debt crisis persuaded investors to shrug off a downgrade to Spain's credit rating and buy riskier assets such as equities.

In June 2010, the Stuxnet worm infected tens of thousands of computers. Now, experts believe the worm is back, and is much more sophisticated and cutting edge.

The U.S. has deported 400,000 illegal immigrants in the past year, the largest one-year total ever, and an increasing number -- 55 percent -- were convicted criminals.

The United States is still crafting a legal framework to guide any offensive moves in cyberspace, months after the Pentagon unveiled a broad cyber strategy, the head of the military command responsible for such operations said on Tuesday.

For the first time since 2009, Social Security benefits will get a cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, that could be as much as a 3.5 percent increase.

Gold was set for its largest one-day fall in two weeks on Tuesday after U.S. bank Goldman Sachs reported a quarterly loss, which coupled with evidence of slowing Chinese growth and mounting Eurozone concerns, lifted the dollar.

An extradition treaty with the United States is not biased against British criminal suspects, a judge-led review said on Tuesday, dealing a blow to campaigners fighting to stop a computer hacker being sent to stand trial in America.

Gold demand in India, the world's largest bullion buyer, will be strong in the October-December quarter, a traditional time for festivals and weddings, despite high inflation that eats into savings and multiple growth-choking central bank rates hikes.

The Met said it rejects the policemen’s claims and will fight them in court.

Michael Sitrick is the biggest name in crisis management, but the public relations guru is grappling with plunging earnings and a stream of executive defections that have set tongues wagging.

Britons are now including internet passwords in wills to ensure their online music, photographs, videos and other digital data are not lost when they die, a British study showed.

A rash of cyber security breaches at U.S. public companies and an outcry from federal lawmakers has prompted U.S. securities regulators to issue guidance for when companies must disclose cyber attacks to investors.

Texan Michael Morton was exonerated by a Texas appeals court on Wednesday after spending nearly 25 years in jail for a murder he did not commit.

Gold prices settled where they started Tuesday, virtually unchanged, as uncertainty about Europe's banks offset Asian demand for physical gold.

The U.S. government has asked Google and Sonic to give up any WikiLeaks-related information and data, following with an order for them to turn over Appelbaum's e-mail contact list -- without a warrant.

A reported threat from an activist hacker group to take protests against Wall Street to the Internet by crippling the New York Stock Exchange website appeared to come to nothing on Monday.