hacktivism

Anonymous’ highly publicized Operation USA has not been the resounding success they expected it to be. Sure, the number of sites sporting a page containing messages from …

A hacker that goes by the name of “Guccifer” – the same one who has allegedly compromised email accounts belonging to the Bush family and some of their close …

Anonymous’ “Operation USA” began yesterday and among its first confirmed victims is the Honolulu Police Department. According to Hawaii News Now, the …

The Australian Federal Police has charged 24-year-old Matthew Flannery (aka “Aush0k”) from Point Clare with allegedly attacking and defacing a government website …

Matthew Keys, the former web producer for a Tribune Company-owned television station that was recently charged with providing Anonymous with log-in credentials for a computer …

25-year-old LulzSec hacker Cody Kretsinger (aka “recursion”) has been sentenced to spend one year in prison for his involvement in the Sony Pictures Entertainment …

As announced, hacker groups affiliated with Anonymous have joined in the attacks on Israeli web properties. By launching “Operation Israel”, the hacktivist …

Lurking in the shadows for nearly a decade, DoS and DDoS attacks are making a resurgence. Several high-profile assaults on the world’s leading financial firms and other …

The names, phone numbers and job titles of thousands of police officers and other employees of the Montreal police department (Service de police de la Ville de Montreal, or …

(ISC)2 released the results of its sixth Global Information Security Workforce Study (GISWS). The study of more than 12,000 information security professionals worldwide (3,229 …

Anonymous continues with its Operation Last Resort, and its latest targets were the websites of the U.S. Department of State (state.gov) and of investment firm George K. Baum …

U.S. Federal Reserve confirmed the breach of one of its internal websites by the hands of Anonymous hackers, but denied that the file containing personal information of over …