hacktivism

Hackers leak 120,000+ records raided from top universities

October 3, 2012

Team GhostShell, a hacker group affiliated with Anonymous, has leaked online information from over 120,000 user accounts stolen from the databases of over 100 higher education …

Interesting times for information security professionals

October 1, 2012

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 …

Major U.S. banks still under DDoS attack

September 28, 2012

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, …

Deconstructing hacktivist operations and tools

September 20, 2012

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’s co-founder deported to Sweden, Anonymous hacks Cambodian ministry

September 11, 2012

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 …

Pro-Syrian attackers hacked Al Jazeera’s website

September 5, 2012

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 …

Anonymous leaks 1m Apple device UDIDs stolen from FBI

September 4, 2012

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 alleged LulzSec member arrested for Sony hack

August 29, 2012

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 …

Hackers allegedly breached Saudi Aramco again

August 28, 2012

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 …

Hackers leak information stolen from over 100 sites

August 27, 2012

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 …

The evolving nature of hacktivism

August 13, 2012

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 …

LulzSec duo pleads guilty to hacking charges

June 25, 2012

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 …