Hacker Pleads Guilty To Stealing $12 Million Of Virtual Money

If it were real money, it’d be an impressive haul: A 29 year old British businessman plead guilty this week to stealing $12 million worth of virtual poker chips over four months, managing to sell a portion of them for $86,000.

London Stock Exchange May Have Been Hacked Last Year

Computerworld is reporting that the London Stock Exchange may have been hacked in August of last year as it prepared to switch its systems from Microsoft’s .Net platform to a Linux-based platform. It’s once again preparing to attempt the same switchover this month.

Latest PS3 Firmware Update Blocks “Call of Duty” Hackers

If you downloaded the new PS3 firmware 3.56 update and you happened to, um, tweak the Call of Duty: Black Ops game to boost your stats, you might have found yourself among the angry people who had their account blocked.

Two Men Charged For Stealing iPad Users’ Personal Info

Remember early June? Summer nights, trendy flip flops, drinks on restaurant patios, etc.? June 10th shattered all those fuzzy feelings with news of a massive security breach affecting iPad 3G owners. “Shattered” might be a bit overdramatic, but let’s just go with it in the interest of moving the story along.

Should Customers Have The Right To “Hack” Their Consoles?

For every video game console, there’s been dozens – no hundreds – of gamers who’ve tried to hack the system. The ability to mod your own device is part of the fun for some avid players who want to be available to install other operating systems, run homebrew (user-produced software that runs on systems not [...]

Despite Being Cracked, Mac App Store Hits One Million (Legal) Downloads

Even though Apple’s new app store is only approaching its second day, hackers claim they’ve already cracked it. Members of Hackulous, who became famous for cracking the Apple DRM, have developed “Kickback,” a program that will allow you to download apps for free from the Mac App Store, according to Gadgets DNA.The catch is it won’t [...]

4Chan Taken Down By Hackers For 24 Hours

You may not have noticed, but the landscape of the internet underwent a surprising – and potentially dangerous – change yesterday with the news that 4Chan had been temporarily taken down by hackers.

How to Check If Your Gawker Password Has Been Stolen

Were you affected by the big Gawker hack that broke out over the weekend? Me too, man. Me too. It is what it is (and other comforting remarks).

Gawker Sites Hacked, Staff & Commenting Passwords Released

Blog empire Gawker Media was under siege this weekend as a group of hackers gained access to the company’s servers.

Operation Payback: Who Are the WikiLeaks ‘Hactivists’?

A hacking group simply identifying itself as “Anonymous” has taken credit for a recent string of high-profile cyber attacks against the websites of businesses, banks and politicians that have either spoken out against or stopped doing business with whistleblowing site, WikiLeaks.

Behind the Hack: How 4Chan Gamed the Time 100

Marblecake, also the game.