via RTTNews Police in London on Tuesday arrested a 19-year-old boy suspected of masterminding the recent hacking of the websites of the U.S. Senate, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Sony, Nintendo and Fox News. The teenager was arrested at his family’s home in Essex in a British police raid ...
Two ad hoc hacker communities often in the headlines of late — LulzSec and Anonymous — announced on Monday they intend to team up to attack government websites worldwide. In its “Operation Anti-Security” manifesto, LulzSec said the top priority of this operation is “to ...
via abc.net.au Cyber security experts are warning that the growing practice of sharing and storing information online could make more companies and institutions vulnerable to attack from hackers. The warning comes as the full extent of a major attack by the hacking group LulzSec becomes clearer. Lul...
via International Business Times After claiming a successful cyber attack against the U.S. Senate’s public website, the hacker collective LulzSec has claimed responsibility for a new attack against the CIA.’s website. LulzSec posted the a tweet on its Twitter page claiming that it had ma...
via BBC The attack on the site was carried out in retaliation for the arrest of three Spanish men the police claimed were ‘core’ members of the group. The hackers managed to keep www.policia.es offline for about an hour from 2130 GMT on 12 June. Spanish authorities would not confirm that...
via Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Windows pros would do well to take note of a predominant trend in the realm of IT security as the week begins: e-mail accounts as both targets and attack vectors. Adobe announced that a recently patched vulnerability in its flash player on Sunday is stil...
via CNN Money NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The targeted phishing scheme that struck hundreds of top U.S. government officials’ personal Gmail accounts was neither difficult to perform nor incredibly sophisticated. The attackers were able to pose as legitimate, trusted senders from the State Dep...
via Stars and Stripes NAPLES, Italy – The breach of Google’s Gmail accounts comes only a week after U.S. defense contractor Lockheed Martin announced that it had weathered a “sustained and tenacious” hack on its computer networks. Cybersecurity experts say, while such attacks...