Two Members of LulzSec Plead Guilty to Cyber Crimes

Two members of the hacker group Lulz Security LulzSec pleaded guilty today to taking part in a cyber crime spree that launched attacks against Web sites belonging to law enforcement, corporations and media companies. Ryan Cleary, 20, of Wickford, Essex and Jake Davis, 19, of Lerwick, Shetland...

UK Teen, TeaMp0isoN Member, Arrested For 'Phone Bomb' Attack

A British teenager believed to be the hacker TriCk, a founding member of TeaMp0isoN has reportedly been arrested after launching a denial of service attack against an anti-terrorism hotline in the UK. The 17 year-old, a resident of Birmingham in the UK, was arrested on April 12 in connection with...

Phone based denial-of-service (DoS) attack on MI6 Anti-terrorism Agency

Phone based denial-of-service DoS attack on MI6 Anti-terrorism Agency +attack+on+MI6+Anti-terrorism+Agency.jpg The Hacking group, 'TeaMp0isoN' said they targeted counter-terrorism officers at MI6 with a barrage of phone calls for a period of 24 hours, which meant nobody else could get through. By...

Anonymous vs Britain's Home Office - Operation Trial At Home

Anonymous vs Britain's Home Office - Operation Trial At Home As announced during last days Anonymous has launched a Distributed Denial of Service DDoS against several UK government websites. A massive recruiting campaign is started on social media, a call to arm to protest the extradition of U.K...

#OpTrialAtHome : Anonymous Plans 7 April Attack on British government

Anonymous Plans 7 April Attack on British government UK hackers linked to the Anonymous group are encouraging supporters to attack the Home Office website this Saturday 7 April in protest at the extradition of three UK citizens to the US. Called OpTrialAtHome, the hacktivist group @AnonOpUK poste...

MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom released on bail

MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom released on bail Kim Dotcom, the millionaire founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload, was released on bail Wednesday after a judge said he didn't appear to have enough money to flee. Authorities in the U.S. allege founder Kim Dotcom facilitated millions of...

Two More Arrested in Connection with Megaupload

The saga of Megaupload continued over the weekend with the arrests of 39 year-old Sven Echternach, of Germany, and 32 year-old Andrus Nomm, of Estonia. The popular file-sharing site was shut down by the Department of Justice last week and its founder and CEO, Kim DotCom, was arrested in his home ...

Alleged Russian Cybercriminal Extradited to U.S.

Vladimir Zdorovenin, an alleged prolific Russian cybercriminal, has arrived in New York City following his arrest and subsequent extradition by Swiss authorities. The FBI had been working to find and extradite Zdorovenin for several years. Originally indicted under seal in May 2007, the 54-year-o...

Hey @BarackObama ! Please don't extradite Gary McKinnon, CC : @Number10gov

Hey @BarackObama ! Please don't extradite Gary McKinnon Gary McKinnon, a Scottish systems administrator and hacker who has been accused of what one U.S. prosecutor claims is the "biggest military computer hack of all time" by hacking into the Pentagon, faces an ordeal of terrifying brutality if h...

WikiLeaks wins Aussie Journalism Awards Australia

WikiLeaks wins Aussie Journalism Awards Australia The whistle-blowing website, WikiLeaks, has been honoured at Australia's premier journalism awards for releasing of "an avalanche of inconvenient truths in a global publishing coup" which has had "an undeniable impact". The Walkley Awards are the...

Gary McKinnon

For more than a year between February of 2001 and March of 2002, a British national, Gary McKinnon, was allegedly able to hack into nearly 100 United States military and NASA computers. Prosecutors have accused McKinnon of having committed the “biggest military computer hack of all time.” McKinno...

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...

Wikileaks Founder, Assange gets Sydney Peace Prize !

Wikileaks Founder, Assange gets Sydney Peace Prize ! WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was Wednesday awarded the Sydney Peace Foundation's top honor for "exceptional courage in pursuit of human rights," joining the likes of Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama. Assange, an Australian former computer...

Former Cisco Engineer Arrested for Hacking !

Former Cisco Engineer Arrested for Hacking ! A former Cisco engineer was arrested last year on charges of hacking into his former employer's network and is currently awaiting extradition in Canada. The charges against Peter Alfred-Adekeye, a British national who worked for Cisco before leaving to...

Ruling in Assange Extradition Case Expected Feb. 24,2011 !

Final arguments in the extradition hearing of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange were presented in a London court on Friday. The judge is expected to rule on February 24, but the case is likely to continue long afterward if either side files an appeal. Assange is being sought for questioning in...

Anonymous Vows Continued Attacks on Companies Opposing WikiLeaks

A pro-WikiLeaks hacker has stated that an Internet insurgent group will continue targeting companies that oppose the whistleblowing website.For the first time, the cyber-insurgent "Bass" from the group Anonymous spoke on camera, revealing details about their operations and their expanding...

Julian Assange Granted Bail

The New York Times reported that Julian Assange, founder, spokesperson, and editor-in-chief of Wikileaks, has been granted bail by a British court. The ruling comes as Assange and his attorneys continue to fight demands from Swedish prosecutors that he be extradited to Sweden. Assange remains in...

Malaysian Hacker Will Be Extradited to U.S.

A Thai court has approved the extradition to the U.S. of a Malaysian man allegedly involved in hacking credit card information, causing massive losses for victims in the U.S. Read the full article. Computerworld...

Indictments fall on Swede for Cisco, NASA attacks

From Wired.com David Kravets A Swedish man has been indicted for attacks against NASA’s Ames Research Center and Cisco several years ago that netted the source code to Cisco’s IOS operating system, among other spoils. Wired’s Threat Level is reporting that Phillip Gabriel Pettersson was indicted...