A squirrel? Yep. Turns out those cute, furry creatures love fiber optic cables, and not necessarily because they are easy to scamper across. Journalist Andrew Blum discovered this when a squirrel chewed through a fiber optic cable serving his office and knocked him and the rest of his office offline ...

If you’ve seen the movie Wall Street, you’ll remember the part when Charlie Sheen confronts the gregarious Wall Street money machine played by Michael Douglas. Douglas glares at Sheen and says, “OK, pal, tell me something I don’t already know!” It is well-understood that sophisticated cyber-attacks are on the rise globally.  ...