US Government: North Korea Behind Sony Hack

The United States government is expected to attribute the damaging and embarrassing hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment to the government of North Korea. Various mainstream media outlets quoting anonymous government sources said North Korea is “centrally involved” in the attack, which NBC News sa...

TrueCrypt Warns Software 'Not Secure,' Development Shut Down

Is it a hoax, or the end of the line for TrueCrypt? At the moment, there is little more than speculation as to the appearance today of an ominous note greeting visitors to the TrueCrypt page at SourceForge. The text warns that the open source encryption software is not secure and informs users th...

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Washington Post

One day after the New York Times Web site was offline for several hours due to what experts speculated was an attack, the site of the Washington Post was hacked, apparently by the Syrian Electronic Army. Officials at the Post said that the attack followed closely on the heels of the SEA hacking t...

Massive cyber attack on South Korean banks and TV broadcasters

Computer networks at major South Korean banks and top TV broadcasters crashed simultaneously Wednesday, during a Massive cyber attack. South Korean police investigating reports from several major broadcasters and banks. least three broadcasters KBS, MBC and YTN and the Shinhan and Nonghyu banks...

Al-Qaeda websites hacked and remains down for past 12 days

Al-Qaeda websites hacked and remains down for past 12 days Al-Qaeda's main internet forums have been offline for the past 12 days in the longest sustained outages of the sites since they began operating. Several online forums frequently visited by al-Qaeda operatives were downed over the course o...

Data Breaches for All

Sony’s online gaming platform, The PlayStation Network PSN, disappeared for more than a month starting in April, and no amount of double X and O-ing or right joysticking could save it. The reason? A massive attack on PSN’s network knocked the gaming giant offline and exposed the data of more than...

Hidden Apple iOS 5 Autocorrect Keyboard Bar Found by Researcher

In the month since Apple’s release of iOS 5, a handful of features and workarounds have been found hidden beneath the mobile operating system’s surface. A few days ago, another feature was added to that list – an autocorrect keyboard bar. According to 9to5Mac, the “Android-like” feature allows...

LulzSec Calling It Quits

The shadowy hacking group LulzSec has posted a message saying that it is disbanding after just 50 days. The group posted messages to its Twitter account, and a letter to its followers on Pastebin.com, the online file sharing site. In the letter, the group said it was disbanding so that its member...

DDoS Attacks On LiveJournal Target Russian Anti Corruption Blogger

Unknown attackers have launched distributed denial of service attacks on a long list of blogs hosted on the social media site LiveJournal, including the blog of a prominent anti-corruption blogger in Russia. The attacks, which began on March 24, initially targeted the LiveJournal addresses...

Vigilant Hacker-Activist Allegedly Searched and Seized

It is being reported that the internet hacker-activist calling himself the Jester who claimed responsibility for the DDoS attacks on Wikileaks Sunday has been the subject of a search and seizure by local law enforcement officials. The raid reportedly took place Monday according to a blog posted...

Vigilant Hacker-Activist Allegedly Searched and Seized

It is being reported that the internet hacker-activist calling himself the Jester who claimed responsibility for the DDoS attacks on Wikileaks Sunday has been the subject of a search and seizure by local law enforcement officials. The raid reportedly took place Monday according to a blog posted...

Cutting Through The Twitter DDoS Hype

There are a lot of theories flying around about why Twitter and other social media services got knocked offline yesterday. I’ve heard rumors about it being linked to political tension between Georgia and Russia. Others blame Iran for the outages. I’m not a political commentator, therefore I canno...