Jeb Boone is a GlobalPost correspondent and blogger at The Grid. Jeb reported on Yemen's uprising in 2011 for GlobalPost as well as for the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, Foreign Policy, the Christian Science Monitor, the Guardian, the Independent and the Sunday Telegraph.
During the revolution's down time, Jeb could be found at Sana'a LAN centers, tinkering with computers or playing computer games with Yemeni friends.
A native of Georgia, Boone is a lifelong PC gamer and has been tinkering with computers ever since he could turn a screwdriver. He holds a Bachelors of Interdisciplinary Studies in Middle East Studies and Arabic Language from Georgia State University and has studied and researched in Yemen. Now based in the US, Jeb has written extensively on hacker collectives, internet policy, international cyber relations and the politics of video games.
The past week has seen heavy fighting in the capital Saana, where the Houthis have gained almost complete control.
Jeremy Hammond, a well-known and widely revered hacktivist, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his involvement with attacks on private intelligence firm Stratfor.
Yemeni and US officials are in talks over the construction of a secure facility in Yemen to house Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Anonymous is releasing stolen data and actively searching for security vulnerabilities to exploit Syrian government systems.
Participants in OpCambodiaFreedom are concerned with systemic problems that plague Cambodian society, including severe poverty, censorship, corruption and government land grabs.
Anonymous is joining New Brunswick environmental activists in anti-fracking campaigns, targeting the Canadian government, corporations and energy conglomerates.
Anonymous claims to have gained access to several Moroccan government servers, in retaliation for the arrest of two teens who posted a photo of themselves kissing to Facebook.
A representative of Riot Games would not clarify if the game a hacker accessed was a long-dead past project or one currently in development.
$13,000 in cash, bitcoins and booze — it’s enough to motivate any hacker to work tirelessly through the night to crack a piece of hardware or software.
The announcement followed revelations of NSA attempts to spy on Brazilian President Rousseff and other Brazilian officials.
Overshadowing even the most infamous state-sponsored cyber armies, a group of hacker-mercenaries has emerged as the world’s new and most potent threat to information security.