DDoS Attack Knocks SOCA Website Offline

The Website of the United Kingdom’s Serious Online Crime Agency SOCA remains offline this morning following a distributed denial of service DDoS attack. A spokesperson from SOCA told the BBC that they took their website offline at 22:30 GMT on Wednesday but insisted that the outage did not presen...

Hackers Launch DDoS Attack on D.C. Government Websites

Hackers Launch DDoS Attack on D.C. Government Websites Hackers launched a DoS denial of service attack on D.C. government websites today, clogging the system with a flurry of requests so that it operates extremely slow or is impossible to load. "The District government has detected an attempted...

LulzSec hacker pleads guilty in Sony breach

LulzSec hacker pleads guilty in Sony breach Accused LulzSec hacker Cody Kretsinger pleaded guilty today in a federal court in Los Angeles, California, to felony charges associated with the breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment that occurred in mid-2011. The hacker had previously pleaded not...

Lulzsec 'Ryan Cleary' Again in Jail for breaking his bail conditions

Lulzsec Ryan Cleary Again in Jail for breaking his bail conditions The lawyer for a 19-year-old Briton Ryan Cleary suspected of links to the hacking group Lulz Security says her client's back behind bars for breaching his bail conditions. Mr Cleary, is accused of being a member of the hacktivist...

Return of Lulzsec, Dump 170937 accounts from Military Dating Site

Return of Lulzsec, Dump 170937 accounts from Military Dating Site Another Hacking group after Lulzsec, comes with name LulzsecReborn has posted names, usernames, passwords, and emails of 170,937 accounts on MilitarySingles.com on Pastebin as part of the group's Operation Digiturk. LulzSec was a...

Hacktivism Breached 174 Million Records in 2011

Hacktivism Breached 174 Million Records in 2011 According to the Verizon 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report released on Thursday, Hacktivists stole more data from large corporations than cybercriminals in 2011, according to a study of significant security incidents. The report surveyed 855 da...

Behind The Mask, Accused LulzSec Members Left Trail Of Clues Online

When the long arm of the law reached in to arrest members of Anonymous’s senior leadership on Tuesday, speculation immediately turned to the identities of the six men behind the Guy Fawkes mask. With the benefit of hindsight, it turns out that many had been hiding in plain site, with day jobs,...

'The New York Iron Works' police supplier Hacked by Anonymous

'The New York Iron Works' police supplier Hacked by Anonymous Anonymous Hackers with the Antisec movement have attacked the site of a company that sells equipment to US law enforcers such as the police. Members of Anonymous recently hacked the official site for law enforcement equipment supplier...

NYT Profiles LulzSec's Sabu As Talented Hacker With Star-Crossed Life

Hector Xavier Monsegur or “Sabu,” de facto ringleader of the notorious Anonymous Internet Collective, was not merely a talented hacker. He was also something of a Robin Hood of the East Side projects and a hard-partying nuisance to his neighbors, a report by the New Yok Times claims. A report fin...

Adult Site DigitalPlayground.com Hacked: Credit Card Info on 40K Exposed

The adult Web site DigitalPlayground.com was hacked. A group calling itself TheConsortium has claimed credit for the attack, saying it stole credit card information on 40,000 paying customers and even listened in on a company conference call. The compromise occurred on March 4, according to a...

Anonymous Takedown several Vatican Websites

Anonymous Takedown several Vatican Websites The Italian Anonymous Hackers took down the Vatican's website Vatican.va on Wednesday in retaliation for the "corruption" of the Roman Catholic Church. On an Italian-language website Anonymous accused the Catholic Church of being responsible for various...

THE "TRUTH" SIMMERS THE POT OF SABU

THE "TRUTH" SIMMERS THE POT OF SABU By: Patti Galle, Editor THN. As I look at my guy fawkes mask and reflect on the recent arrest of several lulzsec members, I have a wrenching feeling in my gut to tell the "truth." Gather around anonymous, lulzsec, FBI, passionate supporters, liberal haters, and...

Chats, Car Crushes and Cut 'N Paste Sowed Seeds Of LulzSec's Demise

The seeds of LulzSec‘s downfall were sown long before the FBI and Scotland Yard went knocking on doors this week. In fact, the group owes its downfall to a series of small, internal skirmishes, unforced errors and unlikely clues that created a virtual trail to its leaders, a Threatpost...

#AntiSec hackers deface Panda Security site to protest LulzSec arrests

AntiSec hackers deface Panda Security site to protest LulzSec arrests Hackers aligned with Anonymous took credit on Wednesday for an attack on Panda Security's website shortly after charges were announced against five of the hacking collective's alleged members. Over 25 websites related to Panda...

Indictments Reveal Anonymous's Mix Of Greed, Ideology

As information filtered out about the arrests of senior members of the group Anonymous and LulzSec on Tuesday, a portrait emerged of a group of mostly teenaged and 20 something hackers who blended greed and ideology in a string of high profile hacks stretching back more than a year. In a statemen...

Report: FEDS Arrest Top LulzSec Members

The FBI has arrested three suspected members of the hacker group LulzSec, according to published reports. Fox News broke the story of the arrests on Tuesday, citing unnamed FBI officials saying that law enforcement agents closed in on top members of the group LulzSec Tuesday morning using...

Anonymous Sabu was working for FBI to Trace down other LulzSec hackers

Anonymous Sabu was working for FBI to Trace down other LulzSec hackers Police on two continents swooped on top members of computer hacking group LulzSec early today, and acting largely on evidence gathered by the organisation's leader "Sabu" who sources say has been secretly working for the...

Anonymous Leaks FBI, Scotland Yard Phone Call Detailing Hacking Investigations

Hacktivists with the online collective Anonymous have released a recording of a sensitive phone call between officials with the FBI, Scotland Yard and other foreign police agencies related to ongoing investigations into hacking. The conference call, which occurred Jan. 17, focused on the continue...

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...

2011: Wait, What?

The security industry can be a giant repetitive, follow-the-loser echo chamber of unoriginal thoughts, familiar flaws and copycat theories. But if ever there was a year in which folks could stand back and look at what’s gone on and say, what in the hell just happened, 2011 was it. So rather than...