hacktivism

There is an old saying, which some attribute as an old Chinese proverb, that states “May you live in interesting times.” Some say that this is a blessing you may …

PNC Bank seems to be the latest target of the organized DDoS attacks agains major U.S. financial institutions such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, …

Imperva released its September Hacker Intelligence report, which details the latest methods deployed by hackers to execute DDoS attacks by analyzing the technical tools and …

Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm has been deported from Cambodia and has landed at Stockholm’s airport this morning, reports TorrentFreak. The formal reason …

Visitors who tried to get their news from the website of the well-respected independent broadcaster Al Jazeera last night have been faced with an unexpected sight: a page …

A file containing a million and one record sets containing Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) and some other general information about the devices has been made available …

Another suspected LulzSec member has been charged for his alleged role in the attacks against Sony Pictures Entertainment’s website and computer systems, the theft of …

Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia and the biggest oil company in the world, has issued a statement announcing that it has restored all its main internal …

Hacker collective Team GhostShell has posted on Saturday on their Twitter account links to a massive leak that supposedly includes over one million of user record sets stolen …

A recent Anonymous video admits that they’ve been fairly quiet lately. From an American and Western European perspective, this is somewhat true. In 2010, Anonymous built …

UK nationals Jake Davis (aka “Topiary”) and Ryan Cleary have officially admitted to being members of the infamous LulzSec hacking collective as they pleaded guilty …

Faced with external security threats from hackers and others, along with a growing array of even more dangerous internal security threats, companies worldwide are feeling the …