Thirteen defendants plead guilty to a December 2010 cyber attack on the online payment site
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Apple Device IDs Leaked by AntiSec Hackers: What You Need to Know
A group of hackers claims to have stolen 12 million Apple device IDs and other user information from an FBI agent’s laptop, and has posted some of the information online.
The group, dubbed AntiSec, posted 1 million Unique …
Alleged LulzSec Hackers Arrested as Leader Turns Snitch
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 …
Wikileaks Begins Publishing ‘Millions’ of Stolen Stratfor Emails
Out of the frying pan, into the fire: Global intelligence firm Stratfor may have secured its perimeters after its servers were infiltrated late last year, but a mammoth email dump just hit the grid courtesy Wikileaks.
In …
‘Anonymous’ Knocks CIA Site Offline
Hacking group Anonymous has apparently claimed credit for knocking the Central Intelligence Agency’s website offline. An update at the YourAnonNews Twitter account reads:
CIA TANGO DOWN: https://www.cia.gov/
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“Why would anybody want to destroy a perfectly good KRS-One song?”
FBI Hacked While Congress Ponders Cybersecurity Legislation
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 …
Is Anonymous Going to Attack Facebook on January 28? No, Says Anonymous
If there’s one thing that Anonymous would really, really like the internet to know about its plans, it’s this: They’re not going to take down Facebook, no matter how many times people say the opposite.
A video titled …
10 Sites Skewered by Anonymous, Including FBI, DOJ, U.S. Copyright Office
By the time East Coasters were finishing dinner last night, 10 websites had fallen to what hacktivist group Anonymous calls its “low orbit ion cannon,” or LOIC — a public domain software tool named after a weapon in a popular …
Anonymous Claims DOJ, RIAA, MPAA Sites Hit for Megaupload Bust
From sleeping dog to full-on Internet terror, it appears Anonymous may be exacting revenge on several federal and private groups after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) shuttered popular download site Megaupload this …
SOPA: What if Google, Facebook and Twitter Went Offline in Protest?
Can you imagine a world without Google or Facebook? If plans to protest the potential passing of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) come to fruition, you won’t need to; those sites, along with many other well-known online …
What Did ‘Anonymous’ Steal from Stratfor? Security Firm Gives Precise Figures
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 …