Dave Aitel Discusses Hacking Groups' Agendas

It has come to this: CNN is now running segments on the attacks attributed to LulzSec, Anonymous and other groups and the FBI raids on suspected members of those crews. The network had Dave Aitel of Immunity Inc. on this morning to discuss the effects of the recent arrests and what the groups’...

FBI Raids Homes of Suspected Anonymous Hackers at New York

FBI Raids Homes of Suspected Anonymous Hackers at New York The FBI executed search warrants at the New York homes of three suspected members of notorious hacking group Anonymous early Tuesday morning. More than 10 FBI agents arrived at the Baldwin. The agents spent an hour and 40 minutes at...

FBI Raids Homes of Suspected Anonymous Hackers at New York

FBI Raids Homes of Suspected Anonymous Hackers at New York The FBI executed search warrants at the New York homes of three suspected members of notorious hacking group Anonymous early Tuesday morning. More than 10 FBI agents arrived at the Baldwin. The agents spent an hour and 40 minutes at...

FBI arrests AT&T employee for leaking information to Anonymous

FBI arrests AT &T employee for leaking information toAnonymous The Tech Herald reported on information given to us by Ryan Cleary shortly before his arrest. AT&T insider who handed sensitive information and a bootable USB disk over to Anonymous. On Tuesday, the FBI arrested an AT&T employee...

FBI arrests AT&T employee for leaking information to Anonymous

FBI arrests AT&T employee for leaking information to Anonymous The Tech Herald reported on information given to us by Ryan Cleary shortly before his arrest. AT&T insider who handed sensitive information and a bootable USB disk over to Anonymous. On Tuesday, the FBI arrested an AT&T employee...

FBI Raids New York Homes of Suspected Anonymous Members

Agents of the FBI raided three homes in New York on Tuesday and seized computers believed to be involved in recent attacks by the Anonymous hacking group. FBI Agents raided three homes in Brooklyn, Baldwin and Merrick, New York at 6:00 AM, armed with search warrants seeking computers and related...

AntiSec Crew Attacks FBI Contractor IRC Federal

Members of the loosely organized group conducting the AntiSec hacking campaign have compromised a company called IRC Federal, which does contracting for the FBI and other federal agencies, posting a large trove of information online in retaliation for what the group says is IRC Federal’s record o...

Lessons from Chicago: Bad Policy, Not Geopolitics, Enables IP Theft

One thing that CME Group, the company that runs the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, wants to make perfectly clear is that it places a “high value on protecting its intellectual property and trade secrets.” That was the clear message from CME following the arrest of an employee for stealing company...

Anonymous Hacks FBI Contractors IRC Federal

Anonymous Hacks FBI Contractors IRC Federal Anonymous Hackers today leak some files of IRC Federal via a tweet. They've gotten access to contracts, internal documents, development schematics, logins and more. The Download Link released by Anonymous is ,106.91 MB. Mirror also available now on...

Anonymous Hacks FBI Contractors IRC Federal

Anonymous Hacks FBI Contractors IRC Federal Anonymous Hackers today leak some files of IRC Federal via a tweet. They've gotten access to contracts, internal documents, development schematics, logins and more. The Download Link released by Anonymous is https://www.mediafire.com/?twxc1nhiluwr1261...

FBI: Employee Passed Chicago Mercantile Exchange Secrets to China

A 10 year employee of CME Group in Chicago is alleged to have stolen trade secrets and proprietary source code used to run trading systems for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Illinois. The complaint, dated June 30, 2011 and signed...

FBI searches LulzSec suspect home in Hamilton, Ohio

FBI searches LulzSec suspect home in Hamilton, Ohio The investigation into the LulzSec hacking team continues, with news that FBI agents have searched a house in Hamilton, Ohio. FBI investigation believed to have been fuelled by interviews with Ryan Cleary, but did not lead to charges. Federal...

FBI searches LulzSec suspect home in Hamilton, Ohio

FBI searchesLulzSec suspect home in Hamilton, Ohio The investigation into the LulzSec hacking team continues, with news that FBI agents have searched a house in Hamilton, Ohio. FBI investigation believed to have been fuelled by interviews with Ryan Cleary, but did not lead to charges. Federal...

Home of Outed Alleged LulzSec Member Raided in Ohio

News reports say the FBI has raided a home in Hamilton, Ohio as part of an investigation of LulzSec, the group responsible for a string of attacks on prominent targets in recent months. Local media reports said the home, located on Jackson Road in Hamilton, Ohio, was the residence of a teenager w...

13 Years Jail for Phishing Attack

13 Years Jail for Phishing Attack A 27 year old man "Kenneth Joseph Lucas II" from Los Angeles has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for allegedly playing an active role in a phishing attack, aimed at stealing money from consumer bank accounts during the operation "Phish Phry" in 2009. The two...

Head of Russian Payment Processor ChronoPay Arrested

Pavel Vrublevsky, the head of a prominent Russian payment-processing company, ChronoPay, was arrested in Russia on suspicion of hiring someone to launch a denial-of-service attack against one of his company’s main competitors. The arrest is the latest in a series of high-profile actions against...

Th3J35t3r (The Jester) claim to expose identities of LulzSec Leader "Sabu"

Th3J35t3r The Jester claim to expose identities of LulzSec Leader "Sabu" Th3J35t3r The Jester Just now Tweet "www.lulzsecurity.com - TANGO DOWN - 'this is General Hummel, from Alcatraz, Out' - https://t.co/oNm29Pv for the lulz.". He doing ddos attack on Lulzsec website "www.lulzsecurity.com". and...

Scareware Takedown By FBI, Int'l Authorities Results in Two Arrests

The FBI has made a major dent in the huge scareware and rogue antivirus problem that has been plaguing Internet users for years now, arresting two people and seizing dozens of computers, servers and bank accounts as part of a large-scale coordinated operation in twelve countries. The operation,...

FBI Begins Purging Coreflood Infected PCs

The FBI has issued some 19,000 uninstall commands to the computers of 24 individuals infected by the Coreflood botnet, effectively purging their machines of that malware, and leaving behind no unintended consequences thus far according to a report from Brian Krebs. This move was made possible by...

UK Authorities Charge Suspected LulzSec Member for DDoS Attacks

A 19 year-old UK man was charged on Wednesday for the role he played in attacks on the UK’s Serious Organized Crime Agency SOCA as well as UK’s British Phonographic Industry BPI and International Federation of the Phonographic Industry IFPI, according to a statement released by the Metropolitan...