The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has just issued a short statement that reads as follows:
“Police dealing with digital crimes have notified NATO of a probable data breach from a NATO-related website operated by an external company. NATO’s e-Bookshop is a separate service for the public for the release of NATO information
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A survey of 583 companies in the U.S. has revealed that “90% of the respondents said their organizations’ computers had been breached at least once by hackers over the past 12 months,” according to Computerworld.
These aren’t just small businesses we’re talking about either. The study (available here as a PDF) “surveyed 583 IT and IT …
The 19-year-old arrested in the U.K. on Monday has officially been charged for violating both the Criminal Law Act and the Computer Misuse Act.
According to a report released by the Metropolitan Police, Ryan Cleary of Wickford, Essex (that’s his house in the above photo) has been charged with participating in an attack against …
LulzSec appears to have blown the whistle on two of its own members, as a document uploaded to Pastebin reads, in part:
“Hi FBI & other law enforcement clowns,
LulzSec here with some juicy gossip.
This is [redacted]… He was involved in the hacking of the game ‘Dues Ex’ and was/is involved in countless other cybercrimes.
Also, he
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A 19-year-old man has been arrested in Wickford, Essex by local authorities “working in co-operation with the FBI.”
The complete police report is as follows:
“Officers from the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) have arrested a 19-year-old man in a pre-planned intelligence-led operation.
The arrest follows an
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Yet another attack against a gaming site has been reported—this time it’s Sega that’s been hit, with the company reporting that the “names, birth dates, e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords” of 1.3 million of its users have been compromised, according to Reuters.
The company confirmed that users of the “Sega Pass” network have …
Several “gray-hat” hackers are mounting an effort to unmask the persons behind Lulz Security, the group responsible for a rash of brazen attacks and breaches over the past month.
Among the cyber vigilantes are The Jester (a.k.a. Th3j35t3r), a self-described ex-military gray-hat hacker who has previously attacked Wikileaks and …
If hacker collective Anonymous dominated the headlines the first half of this year, the second half may belong to upstart Lulz Security, whose brazen and prolific hacking is unprecedented.
In the past 30 days its targets have run the gamut from PBS to Sony to the CIA, and LulzSec has recently set its sights on Anonymous itself. So …
And the lulz just keep on coming, with yet another security breach claimed by LulzSec. I’ve now stopped putting “LulzSec” in quotes (EXCEPT FOR RIGHT THERE!). You can see all our previous LulzSec coverage here.
(MORE: ‘We Do It for the Lulz’: What Makes LulzSec Tick?)
As the story goes, LulzSec released some 62,000 e-mail addresses …
Turns out there’s a whole lot more users that are going to be affected by the Citibank breach than everyone thought.
Just last week, it became apparent that Citibank had been hacked in early May. It wasn’t until nearly three weeks later that the bank notified everyone about the situation, revealing that about 200,000 accounts were …
Notorious hacker group LulzSec isn’t pulling punches—it now claims to have taken down the CIA’s website just today, Wednesday afternoon.
“Tango down – cia.gov – for the lulz,” the group wrote on its official Twitter feed just after 6pm ET.
And again, shortly thereafter: “Lulz Security, where the entertainment is always at your …
Hacker group LulzSec’s arm has grown long indeed: The group just kicked three online gaming site and one game news site to the curb. We’re talking indie hit Minecraft, sci-fi MMORPG EVE Online and real-time strategy hit League of Legends.
(More on TIME.com: Memorable Moments in Hacking History)
As I’m typing this, game news site …