NASA and Pentagon Hacker - TinKode Arrested in Romania

NASA and Pentagon Hacker - TinKode Arrested in Romania Romanian police have arrested a man believed to be TinKode, the notorious hacker responsible for several daring, high-profile cyberattacks, including last year's breach of NASA's servers, Royal Navy, The European Space Agency and MySQL.com. T...

Alleged Anonymous Affiliate Accused of DDoS on Gene Simmons Site Arrested

An alleged member of the Anonymous hacker collective was arrested Tuesday in connection with an attack on the Website of KISS front-man and reality television star Gene Simmons. Reuters identifies the suspect as a 24 year-old Connecticut man named Kevin George Poe. Poe is accused of orchestrating...

Authorities Shut Down Carder Lab in Dominican Republic

Authorities in the Dominican Republic have shut down a carder lab in the city of Santo Domingo, and have arrested a 62-year-old man who they say is one of the alleged leaders of the group. Law enforcement officials had been investigating the group for several months, according to local reports, a...

Sky News Twitter account Hacked

Sky News Twitter account Hacked Hackers yesterday accessed the Twitter account for Sky News business desk and posted a tweet claiming that James Murdoch had been arrested by London police. It has also lately been used by hacker groups to simply raise their profile and make the public aware of the...

Operation Hackerazzi : FBI arrests alleged Hacker for Stealing naked photos of Hollywood stars

Operation Hackerazzi : FBI arrests alleged Hacker for Stealing naked photos of Hollywood stars FEDERAL officials on Wednesday arrested a 35-year-old Florida man,Christopher Chaney and charged him with 26 counts of cyber-related crimes against Hollywood stars following an 11-month federal probe...

Student Arrested for hacking Thailand Prime Minister Accounts

Student Arrested for hacking Thailand Prime Minister Accounts Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's personal Twitter account was hacked on October 2nd, 2011 in what officials said was possibly part of a conspiracy to embarrass the government. Police in Thailand have arrested a university student w...

Thailand Prime Minister Twitter, Facebook accounts Hacked

Thailand Prime Minister Twitter, Facebook accounts Hacked Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's personal Twitter account was hacked yesterday in what officials said was possibly part of a conspiracy to embarrass the government. The false tweets accused her of cronyism and various failures. The fin...

British VPN Service Defends Role in Lulzsec Bust

British virtual private network VPN company Hide My Ass has taken a stand about their involvement in the arrest of an alleged Lulzsec member last week. In a blog post published on Friday, the company reiterated that they keep logs of their users’ history for 30 days and they will cooperate with l...

Lulzsec Hacker tracked by Proxy logs, can face 15 years prison

Lulzsec Hacker tracked by Proxy logs, can face 15 years prison The FBI believes that the homeless man they arrested on Thursday was "Commander X", a member of the People's Liberation Front PLF associated with Anonymous hacktivism. The logs maintained by HideMyAss.com, in addition to other evidenc...

FBI Snags Lulzsec Member Involved in Sony Hack

The FBI continued its pursuit of members of the hacking group LulzSec on Thursday, arresting a 23 year old Phoenix, Arizona man believed to be part of an online hacking crew that attacked systems belonging to Sony Pictures, the Bureau said in a statement Thursday. The arrest, conducted by agents...

Anonymous and Lulzsec stand for Jake Davis with #FreeTopiary Operation

Anonymous and Lulzsec stand for Jake Davis with FreeTopiary Operation Two Days before Accused LulzSec hacker "Topiary" was got arrested and today he released on bail. Jake Davis, an 18-year-old from the Shetland Islands, was released on bail after being charged with five offences relating to...

LulzSec Member Topiary arrested in the Shetland Islands

LulzSec Member Topiary arrested in the Shetland Islands Police arrest 18-year-old man in Shetland Islands who is alleged to be involved in hacker attacks on law enforcement agencies.Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's Police Central e-Crime Unit PCeU arrested the man as part of an...

LulzSec Member Topiary arrested in the Shetland Islands

LulzSec Member Topiary arrested in the Shetland Islands Police arrest 18-year-old man in Shetland Islands who is alleged to be involved in hacker attacks on law enforcement agencies.Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's Police Central e-Crime Unit PCeU arrested the man as part of an...

UK Police Arrest Man They Say is Anonymous Member 'Topiary'

Police in the U.K. said on Wednesday that they have arrested a 18-year-old man whom they believe is “Topiary,” one of the more public members of the Anonymous and LulzSec hacking groups. The arrest, which was carried out by the Metropolitan Police Service’s Police Central eCrime Unit, is part of...

New Leak of Documents Is Protest Over Harvard Fellow's Arrest

More than 18,000 academic documents have been copied from an online scholarly archive and posted on Pirate Bay, the file sharing Web site, but questions arose on Friday about where the documents really came from. The documents in question, totalling 18,592 scientific publications and about 33...

Hacking Crew Attacks German National Cyber Defense Center

Germany’s newly created National Cyber Defense Center was attacked by a group of hackers referring to themselves as the “n0n4m3 cr3w” No Name Crew in early July, according to a report from the IDG News Service. The group broke into the National Cyber Defense Center’s network and stole information...

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...

Microsoft offers $250,000 reward for information of Rustock Botnet

Microsoft offers $250,000 reward for information of Rustock Botnet Microsoft is offering a $250,000 reward for providing information of Rustock botnet. The Rustock botnet is responsible for a great deal of cyber crime, spam the botnet has capacity for 30 billion spam mails every day, dodgy...

Switzerland & Italian police arrest 15 suspected Anonymous members

Switzerland & Italian police arrest 15 suspected Anonymous members Switzerland & Italian police claimed on Tuesday to have arrested some members of the Legion group Anonymous following a series of raids. The arrests were made by the Polizia postale e delle comunicazioni, or Polizia Postale, which...