Pro-Syrian attackers hacked Al Jazeera’s website
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 …
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Anonymous leaks 1m Apple device UDIDs stolen from FBI
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
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
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
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
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
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 …
Five IT security threats and how to combat them
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 …
UGNazi attack 4chan, CloudFlare
Visitors to 4chan have recently been automatically redirected to the Twitter account of hacker group UGNazi, and an investigation into the matter revealed that the attack has …
Romanian hackers arrested for hitting government websites
Twelve individuals have been arrested across Romania for having allegedly compromised and defaced 29 websites of Romanian public institutions, and having stolen and leaked …
Hackers breach WHMCS via social engineering
WHMCS, the company behind the popular commercial billing and automation software program used by many web hosting firms, has had its web server hacked on Monday. Hacker group …
Anti-Anonymous hacker takes credit for The Pirate Bay DDoS
After 72 hours of being hit with an extensive DDoS attack and having been intermittently inaccessible to its visitors, The Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks are back online. It was …