Swedish Sites Attacked in Retaliation for Police Raid on Web Host

Several Web sites in Sweden, including the nation’s central bank and two government affiliates, were hit with attacks this week, supposedly in retaliation for a police raid on an Internet company tied to The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest file sharing site. That site also was offline until...

Can Google Be Forced By the FBI to Unlock Users' Phones?

Those multi-gesture passcode locks on Android phones that give users and their spouses fits apparently present quite a challenge for the FBI as well. Frustrated by a swipe passcode on the seized phone of an alleged gang leader, FBI officials have requested a search warrant that would force Google...

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...

FBI shut down 18 Child Porn Websites

FBI shut down 18 Child Porn Websites A man was recently indicted on federal charges of running 18 Chinese-language child pornography websites out of his apartment in Flushing, New York. The websites were being advertised to Chinese-speaking individuals in China, in the U.S., and other countries...

Scareware Takedown By FBI, Int'l Authorities Results in Two Arrests

The FBI has made a major dent in the huge scareware and rogue antivirus problem that has been plaguing Internet users for years now, arresting two people and seizing dozens of computers, servers and bank accounts as part of a large-scale coordinated operation in twelve countries. The operation,...

Pushdo/Cutwail: August, 2010

One of the world’s most prolific botnets and a leading source of spam, denial of service attacks and malware, Pushdo was brought down by researchers at the security firm Last Line of Defense, who worked with hosting providers to seize 30 command-and-control servers involved in the botnet...

Anonymous Hackers send a video message to Westboro Baptist Church !

Anonymous doesn't kid around and the Westboro Baptist Church learned that the hard way. The hacktivist group took down their website and left a stern message. The two groups, the radical hackers which launch denial-of-service attacks and the radical religious organization which preaches its messa...

FBI raids on 40 Anonymous hackers !

The FBI would have conducted 40 raids yesterday and seized the computers of members of the loosely organized group of hackers known as Anonymous. Several members have posted their stories in online forums, including images of kicking in doors. The FBI has seized every computer in every house and...