DDoSing Hospital Networks Landed This Hacktivist in Jail for Over 10 Years

A simple DDoS attack could land you in jail for 10 years or even more. A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to over 10 years in prison for launching DDoS attacks against the computer network of two healthcare organizations in 2014 to protest the treatment of a teenager at the centers. Beyond...

Intimate Partner Threat

Princeton's Karen Levy has a good article computer security and the intimate partner threat: When you learn that your privacy has been compromised, the common advice is to prevent additional access -- delete your insecure account, open a new one, change your password. This advice is such standard...

LulzSec Affiliate, Ryan Cleary, Indicted in U.S.

Ryan Cleary, the 20 year-old Essex, England hacker associated with the hacker collective LulzSec, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the United States on Tuesday. According to an FBI press release, the grand jury indicted Cleary with one count of conspiracy and two counts of the unauthorized...

Former employee held for hacking server of BPO unit in Hyderabad !

A former software professional on Saturday was arrested for allegedly hacking the server of a city-based BPO company, where he previously worked, police said. The hacker identified as Shaik Mahammad Ghouse Bhasa allegedly secured unauthorised access to the computer systems of M/s IVOICE Network...

Gang stole credit card details of US Citizens !

The cyber abomination badge arrested four youths, who had purchased cottony sarees account over Rs 17 lakh by application baseborn acclaim agenda capacity and agreement orders online. The youths, three of them engineers, had become accompany while alive in a arch alarm centre in the city. While o...