Over 9,000 active credit cards, 27,000 phone numbers and 20,000 "easily cracked" passwords — that's what hacktivist group Anonymous has released to date, after reportedly hacking international intelligence and threat analysis firm Stratfor.
Be careful what you say, or say nothing at all, advises hacked international intelligence and threat analysis firm Stratfor, after revealing hackers may be targeting members who offer public support for the company in the wake of a serious security breach.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning that hackers located in China managed to breach the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s information technology infrastructure.
It had to happen; after years of science-fiction stories where heroes are recruited through video games that are actually tests of their abilities, a secret service has gone all Last Starfighter and set up a fake website designed to recruit potential hackers, ensuring that they only use their powers for good.
Imagine: Your printer suddenly powers up while you’re away, tendrils of smoke leaking from its crevices, threatening to burst into flames, all through the machinations of hackers, remotely instructing the machine to self-combust.
Is it safe to go back in your favorite social network’s waters? Perhaps.
When Valve revealed last night that its Steam online gaming service had been hacked and a database with user login and credit card info gutted, was anyone surprised?
Forget Anonymous and LulzSec, according to a new U.S. report compiled from research by over a dozen spy agencies and area experts, the world’s worst cyber-criminals are China and Russia. The Chinese in particular are in the U.S.’s crosshairs, accused in the report of being “the world’s most active and persistent perpetrators of economic espionage.”
First it was child-pornography sites. Now the hacker collective known as Anonymous is going after a Mexican drug cartel.
It certainly sounds ominous: Hackers meddling with satellites controlled by the U.S. government several times over the past four years. What’s more, claims a report by a U.S. congressional commission, the hackers behaved in ways consistent with Chinese military doctrine.
It’s the career move no-one was expecting from Anonymous: going from faceless hackers to investigative journalists exposing corporate corruption via a specially-created website. Okay, alright…maybe it’s not that unexpected from a headless collective with a propensity for resetting expectations.
