Italian government site (www.governo.it) Hacked !

Software hacker group "Anonymous" launched attacks Sunday against the Italian government's website citing political grievances, ANSA news agency reported. "Anonymous" announced its distributed denial-of-service DDoS assaults earlier in the day, saying they were launched because "the political and...

Egypt Back Online

After almost a week without Internet access, Egypt blinked back online Wednesday, according to report published by Renesys. As of one PM Wednesday, Cairo time, the country’s main Internet Service Providers ISPs appear to have restored their service, providing Net access to the strife torn middle...

Darkshell Botnets Targeting Chinese Manufacturers With DDoS Attacks

Researchers are tracking a new bot that originated in China and is being used by various associated botnets that are hammering away with DDoS attacks aimed at several dozen targets around the world, including a number of telecom companies and specialized manufacturers. The piece of malware behind...

FBI Conducts Search Warrants At 40 "anonymous" Supporters Wikileaks !

The FBI announced today that they have executed over 40 search warrants in connection with the UK Metropolitan Police against Wikileaks DDoS'ing participants of "enemies." Unlike police met, the FBI did not reveal many details about who may have executed the arrest warrants against, or more...

Anonymous hackers launch DDoS attack on Egypt !

Hot on the heels of similarly politically-motivated attacks against websites belonging to the governments of Tunisia and Zimbabwe, hackers are bombarding official websites in Egypt with a DDoS attack. The hackers' current target is believed to be the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and...

London Police Arrest Five Anonymous Hacker !

Month after allegedly assaulting various websites to defend Wikileaks London police may have caught members of "hacktivism" Anonymous group. Five alleged members were arrested in London today for Anonymous violation of the Computer Misuse Act. The men are aged 15 to 26 and face up to 10 years in...

An Open Letter From ANONYMOUS HACKERS to the UK Government

An Open Letter From ANONYMOUS HACKERS to the UK Government Dear UK government, We are Anonymous. It has come to our attention that you deemed it necessary to arrest five of our fellow anons for their participation in the DDoS attacks against PayPal, Mastercard, and others, that have been carried...

Hacker Fantasy Cyberworld Of Good And Evil : Wikileaks !

What is the future of political protest, as in a highly digitized world? We follow the real-time display via Wikileaks Cablegate. The day of the cables has been convicted for release in major newspapers worldwide, called a "political hack" cut the Wikileaks site with a distributed denial of servi...

CIO said - London Olympics Will Be 'ready' For Cyber-attacks !!

London Olympics will be well prepared for attempted cyber attack, according to CIO Gerry Pennell London 2012. Speaking in London to start in 2012, and Atos Origin IT testing organization, Technology Lab, Pennell said the attacks at the Olympics - is also trying to overthrow the Games, to influenc...

Malware and phishing increasing via social networks !

By mid-2010, Facebook recorded half a billion active users, making it not only the largest social networking site, but also one of the most popular destinations on the web. Unsurprisingly, this massive and committed user base is heavily targeted by scammers and cybercriminals, with the number and...

Ruleaks.net и Rospil.info подверглись DDoS-атаке

deldel...

Be aware : Korean DDoS arrests !

The Korean Times reports the arrest of a pair of hackers over the weekend on DDoS charges. According to prosecutors, the pair, Lee and Park, operated a gambling website on behalf of a crime gang. In an effort to boost traffic to their own site, they used a 50,000-strong botnet to overload 109 riv...

Cyber Gang War: Korean Crime Duo Nabbed for Web Attacks !

Several members of a Korean crime gang were arrested this past Sunday Jan. 9 for hiring hackers to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks DDoS against gaming sites owned by rival gangsters. The Korea Times reports four members of a crime gang based in Incheon, South Korea hired a hacker,...

'Anonymous' Hacktivists Attack African Government Sites !

"Anonymous," the shadowy hacktivist group that's attacked PayPal, the record industry and the Church of Scientology, has upped the ante: It's now taking on entire countries. The group launched massive distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks on at least eight Tunisian government websites...

Pro-WikiLeaks hackers deface Zimbabwe government websites !

Hacktivists have struck a blow against the regime in Zimbabwe by attacking a number of government websites. The cyber-assault appears to have been in support of newspapers who published secret cables in the ongoing WikiLeaks saga, to the annoyance of the-powers-that-be in the country. Grace Mugab...

FBI raids ISP in Anonymous DDoS investigation !

Authorities in the U.S. and Germany have raided Internet Service Providers in hopes of tracking down the hackers who launched distributed denial of service DDoS attacks against Web sites such as Visa.com, PayPal.com, and Mastercard.com earlier this month. In documents posted Wednesday to the...

'BitTorrent' exploit could be used to stage massive cyber attacks !

With the Federal Bureau of Investigations FBI treating successful cyber attacks by "Operation Payback" as criminal offenses, a new level of ambiguity is being introduced into the enforcement of cyber crime laws. The FBI was treating efforts by "Anonymous" and "4chan" as an "unauthorized and knowi...

Top-Channel.Tv DDOS Atack By Teo DownTurn (AHT-CREW)

Top-Channel.Tv DDOS Atack By Teo DownTurn AHT-CREW Top-Channel.Tv The Best TV Channel In Albania...!!! Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter  and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post...

4chan back online after being downed by DDoS attacks !

A coordinated DDoS attack from an unknown source temporarily knocked 4chan offline in the latest attack against the high-profile group. The 4chan forum helped to create and cultivate the Anonymous hacker group that has used DDoS attacks against numerous companies in recent months as part of...

Threatpost's Five Security Trends to Watch in 2011

2010 ended with dire predictions about a new age of Internet enabled hacker-activism, but the big story in 2011 will be the explosion in IP enabled, loosely secured, Internet connected stuff. It’s the time of year when all of us gaze into the crystal ball and think of what the next 12 months has ...