20-year-old Anonymous Hacker arrested by Bulgarian Police

20-year-old Anonymous Hacker arrested by Bulgarian Police Bulgarian police authorities have arrested an alleged member of the loosely associated Anonymous hacktivist group. The 20-year-old suspect has allegedly attacked the website of Prophon, a Bulgarian music licensing company. The reason - Mit...

Anonabees 'SpexSecurity' Appear, Leak Data On Thousands, Disappear

A new Anonymous-styled hacktivist group, SpexSecurity, has surfaced and then vanished, but not before allegedly siphoning the personal information of over 100,000 residents of a Tennessee town, including individuals’ e-mail passwords, social security numbers and birth dates. Details of the hack...

FBI Warns Top Firms Of Anonymous Protest Hacks on May 25

The FBI Cyber Division has sent a warning to some of the world’s top corporations about a coordinated campaign of denial of service attacks and hacking, scheduled for Friday, May 25. Apple Computer, McDonald’s, ExxonMobil, Hewlett-Packard, Bank of China and Walmart are among the firms singled out...

June 2011 – Nintendo, Bethesda Softworks, Minecraft, EVE Online, League of Legends

A cadre of video game companies including Bethesda Softworks, Minecraft and Nintendo was targeted in June when the hacktivist group Lulzsec raided servers belonging to the firms. Bethesda had information on about 200,000 users of its Brink video game pilfered – but not released. Servers at...

April 2011 – Sony PSN

Executives at Sony probably didn’t anticipate that a lawsuit against technology whiz kid George Hotz would end up backfiring as spectacularly as it did. The missing ingredient? The hacktivist group Anonymous, which adopted Hotz as a cause célèbre and retaliated with an attack on Sony’s Play Stati...

17 year old Teenager arrested over TeamPoison hacking attacks

17 year old Teenager arrested over TeamPoison hacking attacks A teenage boy has been arrested on suspicion of being a member of "TeamPoison", a computer hacking group that has claimed responsibility for 1,400 offences including an attack on the phone system of Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism un...

Anonymous: We Are Not Terrorists but Fearless Freedom Fighters

Anonymous: We Are Not Terrorists but Fearless Freedom Fighters Black Ops 2 trailer that was released recently, portrays the Anonymous organization as the enemy of the United States, which has pissed them off greatly. Anonymous has responded to Activision's marketing campaign for Call of Duty: Bla...

Bogus Report: 55,000 Twitter accounts compromised

Bogus Report: 55,000 Twitter accounts compromised Thousands of Twitter passwords were exposed this week and the site was looking into matter. According to a message posted on Twitter's Japanese blog, None of the recently leaked Twitter logins and passwords came from within the company. Twitter ha...

10 Lebanese government websites taken down by Hacktivist group

Several Lebanese ministry websites were the target of a hack attack Thursday by the group Raise Your Voice, in the second such attack on government-related portals this month. "We are RYV, short for Raise Your Voice, and we are simply a group of people who could not bare sic sitting in silence,...

FBI track Anonymous hacker using his girlfriend's boobs

FBI track Anonymous hacker using his girlfriend's boobs The FBI swooped on Higinio O Ochoa III after he posted the snap, which included a gloating message to his online victims.He took the picture on his iPhone and posted it on Twitter without realising it contained GPS data pointing directly to...

BBC: Pastebin to Police Hacker-Posts

Pastebin.com could soon find itself on the wrong side of some of its most reliable traffic generators, namely, Anonymous, what’s left of LulzSec, and other hackers now that the site’s owner, Jeroen Vader, said he plans on hiring more staff to patrol the text-sharing site for “sensitive...

NSA Director Says Agency Should Not Monitor Private Networks

The hysteria in Washington regarding the comprehensive infiltration of U.S. government and civilian networks by China has gotten to the point now that the director of the National Security Agency is saying in open Congressional hearings that his agency, the U.S. Cyber Command and others should be...

FBI charge Anonymous for stealing CC worth $700000 in Stratfor attack

FBI charge Anonymous for stealing CC worth $700000 in Stratfor attack The FBI has revealed that there were $700,000 worth of fraudulent credit card charges after hacktivist group Anonymous stole nearly 200 gigabytes of data, including credit card numbers, from security firm Stratfor. Anonymous...

Pastebin Downed By Second DDoS Attack This Week

For the second time this week, Pastebin.com on Thursday found itself hit by a distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack. The site was previously taken offline for a portion of the day on Tuesday, though no motives or culprits for that attack have been named yet. A post to the service’s Twitter...

#OpRobinHood : Thousands of United Nation logins leaked by TeaMp0isoN

OpRobinHood : Thousands of United Nation logins leaked by TeaMp0isoN Online 'hactivist' collective Anonymous and hackers Team Poison have joined forces for a new group effort known as 'Operation Robin Hood', that plans to target banks in an effort to give money back to the people. TeaMp0isoN toda...

Opinion: Anon Will Need More Than Porn Takedowns To Rehab Its Image

The hacktivist group Anonymous, it seems, is bent on rehabilitating its image. In recent months, the anarchic hacking collective has moved from retaliatory attacks on enemies like Aaron Barr and outing “snitches,” to squelching out child pornography networks Operation DarkNet, launched in October...

Anonymous Finland Wages War on Mining, Leaks 500,000 E-mails

The Finnish arm of the Hacktivist collective Anonymous announced their intent to wage a war against domestic mining company Talvivaara over the weekend, according to a press release posted to the Pastebin file sharing Web site on Saturday. In what Anonymous has deemed “Operation Screw Talvivaara,...

#Anonymous : Now is the Time to evolve or Die

Anonymous : Now is the Time to evolve or Die Anonymous was formed and birthed on the internet message board 4chan in 2003. The moniker Anonymous was derived as homage to 4chan. At the time, if someone posted to 4chan's forums and no name was given then the post was credited to "Anonymous". Seizin...

NATO Looks to Team With India To Fight Cybercrime

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO is looking to enlist the help of India when it comes to contending with cyber threats from China, according to a recent report. According to a piece in the Economic Times, NATO hopes to strengthen its ties with the Southeast Asia republic, citing its...

Report: Q2 Threat Evolution, the Year of the Hacktivist?

Scareware and Rogue AV are back with a vengeance in 2011, after receding in 2010 according to Kaspersky Lab’s latest threat evolution report. According to the report, the rogue AV resurgence is significant not only in scope, which was substantial, with the Kaspersky Security Network KSN detecting...