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Facebook Claims Porn Barrage Is Under Control
Facebook says it’s clamped down on pornographic and violent images spread by malicious code introduced by hackers.
Is Valve’s Steam Hack as Bad as the Sony PlayStation Debacle?
Valve says Steam service was hacked, admits user login and payment info may have been pilfered.
Worst Cyber-Criminals in the World: China and Russia, Claims U.S. Report
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 …
Hacker Collective ‘Anonymous’ Goes After Mexican Drug Cartel
First it was child-pornography sites. Now the hacker collective known as Anonymous is going after a Mexican drug cartel.
The Zetas are one of the biggest players in Mexico’s drug war, which has resulted in about 40,000 deaths since 2006. Earlier this month, a YouTube video showed a man in a Guy Fawkes mask who claimed to speak for …
Chinese Hackers Targeting U.S. Satellites?
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.
In a draft report due out next month and
Hackers Turned Journalists? Anonymous Launches ‘Analytics’ Site
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.
The site, Anonymous Analytics, …
F.B.I. Busts LulzSec, Anonymous Suspects Across U.S.
It looks like the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s been especially busy over the past 48 hours, because they’re suddenly snatching up alleged members of hack collectives LulzSec and Anonymous across the United States.
According to FoxNews.com, the F.B.I. arrested two members allegedly affiliated with LulzSec and Anonymous yesterday …
Hackers Target Japanese Weapons Maker, Nuclear Power Plants
Missiles, submarines and yes, even nuclear power plants were targeted in a cyber attack launched against Japan’s premiere weapons maker, reports Al Jazeera. The victim: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which said today that a total of 83 of its servers and computers were infected by as many as eight separate viruses.
The Japanese …
Hackers Are the New Mob: White House Gets Serious on Cybercrime
Potential teenage Matthew Brodericks, beware: In this era of LulzSec, DDoS attacks on BART and hacktivst group Anonymous telling NATO that the world doesn’t belong to them anymore, the White House has decided that it’s time to take hacking seriously, asking for tougher sentencing for those found guilty of cybercrime.
Speaking before …
Two More LulzSec, Anonymous Suspects Picked Up in U.K.
The noose appears to be tightening around hacktivist groups LulzSec and Anonymous: Two men, aged 24 and 20, were just picked up for reported connections to online attacks by the groups in recent months.
The two apparently shared the hacker identity “Kayla,” a name associated with Anonymous and attacks on California-based Internet …
Nokia Admits Hack Last Week More Serious, Closes Developer Forums
Welcome to your weekly hack update, in which a major company admits its perimeter was breached and someone made off with piles of sensitive data. In this installment: Nokia, the Finland-headquartered mobile device manufacturer, and their online development community.
Yep, that community was reportedly infiltrated by ne’er-do-wells who …
