Lawyers defending the hacker accused of breaking into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account claim that his PC had been infected with spyware. (more…)

The Republican Vice-President candidate Sarah Palin was at the centre of an embarrassing security flaw this week as hackers broke their way into two of her personal email accounts.

Screenshots of two Yahoo email accounts belonging to Palin, as well as a contacts list, were posted on the Wikileaks whistle-blowing site as intruders utilised a flaw in Yahoo’s password administration system. (more…)