Instead of being sentenced, General James Cartwright, the man believed to have leaked the secret that the US and Israeli armies had developed the Stuxnet malware was pardoned by the outgoing Obama administration.
A security researcher discovered a remote code execution vulnerability on Facebook's website that earned him a $40,000 bounty, while another uncovered a privacy issue that reveals private phone numbers linked to Facebook users' accounts.
Julian Assange had promised to agree to extradition if President Obama commuted Chelsea Manning's sentence, but Obama said that pledge didn't influence his decision.
A new report from the Institute of Critical Infrastructure Technology has shown that fake news links are often spread to aid the campaigns of APT groups
A long campaign to move President Obama to commute whistleblower Chelsea Manning's sentence for passing classified documents to WikiLeaks has reached its desired conclusion.