It looks like Virgin Media may be the latest victim of a site takedown by Anonymous: The hacktivist group is claiming that it targeted the Internet service provider's website in response to Virgin Media's block of popular torrent site The Pirate Bay.
A security industry blog warned on Friday of a potentially “massive” data breach affecting as many as 10 million Visa and MasterCard accounts.
Lulz Security, a hacking group that stole data from law enforcement, defaced the websites of major publications and published troves of user names and passwords from online services, has suffered a critical blow at the hands of law enforcement.
Hackers reportedly made off with Michael Jackson’s entire back catalog during a raid on Sony Music’s servers last year.
Controversial whistleblower Wikileaks has begun publishing some five million emails — dubbed “The Global Intelligence Files” — allegedly pilfered from geopolitics tell-all site Stratfor.
Hacking group Anonymous has apparently claimed credit for knocking the Central Intelligence Agency’s website offline.
You probably won’t see the Wallet Cracker app in the Android Market anytime soon. In a video posted by security firm Zvelo, the program exposes the pin number of a Google Wallet account within seconds.
The Boston Police Department seems to be taking the recent hacking of its community news website in stride; a video uploaded to YouTube pokes fun at the hack with several tongue-in-cheek interviews of Boston-area police officers.
Hackers claim to have breached the computer systems at Foxconn, the controversial electronics manufacturer headquartered in Taiwan that makes products for companies such as Apple, HP and several other large consumer electronics companies.
At a rare open hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, FBI Director Robert Mueller testified that threats from cyber-espionage and cyber-attacks will surpass terrorism as the number one threat facing the United States. Not three days later, hackers released a recording of an intercepted call between FBI agents and their U.K. counterparts investigating the Anonymous and LulzSec collectives.
Apple’s iPhone 4S and iPad 2 proved particularly difficult to jailbreak, but the hackers have finally prevailed. The so-called Corona A5 jailbreak is the first “untethered” hack for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2.
